The Biden Tapes Are Out: Did Corporate Media Cover Up His Decline?
Biden’s Memory Lapses Are Painful to Hear
Axios has made public the audio recordings of Robert Hur’s interview with then-President Joe Biden regarding Biden’s unauthorized possession of classified documents.
The audio proof of Joe Biden’s struggles with answering even simple questions is at times painful to hear. Yet it is an important piece of evidence highlighting White House efforts to conceal his obvious cognitive decline, as well as corporate media’s manifest complicity in that coverup.
Readers will recall that Robert Hur specifically declined to pursue charges against Joe Biden under the Espionage Act because of Biden’s demonstrably poor memory.
To help ensure this material does not “disappear”, I have uploaded the full 5-hour recording here. It also may be found on YouTube.
A transcript of the interview had been made available a month after Special Counsel Robert Hur made his report and declined to pursue charges against Biden.
Axios is covering the audio recordings head on, noting in detail how Joe Biden struggled to recall important information throughout the interview.
Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had classified documents he shouldn't have had, according to audio Axios obtained of his October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.
CNN once again lives down to its reputation and sidesteps the question of the degree of Biden’s struggles to articulate even simple thoughts, choosing instead to simply whitewashing the entire affair.
The interview became one of the most notable and politically controversial parts of Hur’s investigation, which concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Biden with criminal mishandling of records after his vice presidency. In a final report, Hur called Biden, 81 at the time, “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The New York Times also downplayed the recording as proof of Biden’s mental infirmity as early as 2023, although it did note Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over the recording.
The Biden administration kept the audio secret, asserting executive privilege over it. Officials also said releasing such a recording could make it harder for prosecutors to get cooperation from witnesses in future investigations.
That the recording is coming out now underscores the continuing controversy over the extent both of White House efforts to downplay Joe Biden’s cognitive decline over the course of his Presidency and corporate media’s role in that deception.
Biden’s obvious struggles during the Hur interview—which even Axios acknowledges are manifest in the audio recordings—can only further amplify questions about who was making decisions on Biden’s behalf. Already, it is clear that the Democrats should have invoked the 25th Amendment regarding Presidential incapacity long before Biden was forced out of his re-election campaign in July of last year.
Will this recording result in people being arrested and criminally charged with covering up Biden’s mental incapacity? While that might appear a longshot at the moment, we should not rule it out completely.
Joe Biden was not “in charge” during his time in the Oval Office. The American people are likely to be very much interested in learning who was.
Update
Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post is right on the mark.
If Joe Biden was as cognitively incapacitated as the evidence suggests, then he could not have authorized even a single use of the autopen.
The use of the autopen itself is not necessarily a legal problem, but if Biden could not authorize its use that is a huge problem.
If Joe Biden lacked the mental capacity to give that authorization then the use of the autopen is immediately invalidated.
The 2005 Office of Legal Counsel memorandum which has been used to support the use of the autopen hinges on the President “directing” that his signature “be affixed” to a document.
Rather, under the “principle of signatures,” the common law recognized that one could sign a document not only with one’s own hand, but also by the hand of another who was properly authorized to affix one’s signature to the document on one’s behalf or who did so in one’s presence.Furthermore, a document signed in one’s name by the hand of another in either of these manners was equally effective as a document signed with one’s own hand.
The OLC memorandum takes pains to differentiate between giving authorization to affix the Presidential signature to a piece of legislation and the decision that the legislation should be signed.
We do not suggest that the President may delegate the decision whether to “approve[]” and “sign” a bill.U.S. Const. art. I,§ 7, cl. 2. It has long been the view of the Executive Branch that the President may not delegate this decision. As Attorney General Cushing explained 150 years ago, “[The President] approves or disapproves of bills which have passed both Houses of Congress: that is a personal act of the President, like the vote of a Senator or Representative in Congress, not capable of performance by a Head of Department or any other person.”
Necessarily, in direct consequence of this reasoning, each individual use of the autopen to affix a Presidential signature to official documents must be individually authorized by the President.
Authorization necessarily presumes a President has the mental capacity to give that authorization.
The mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline both before and during his Presidency calls into question his capacity to give that authorization, and a lack of authorization invalidates the use of the autopen to affix the Presidential signature to any official document.
The audio recordings are the latest evidence to suggest that Joe Biden was legally incapable of giving such authorization, which means his signature on pieces of legislation, on Executive Orders, and even on Presidential pardons is open to legal challenge.
The Constitution does not offer any guidance on how to resolve an invalid Presidential signature—but we are getting uncomfortably close to having to resolve exactly that.
Which brings us back to the awkward question: who was actually making the decisions in the Oval Office if not Joe Biden?
The denial of his decline was already evident in 2020 in their pre-election coverage of him. None of us were to believe what our senses told us.
And the sheeple gulp down the media propaganda much like a duck or goose being force fed to fatten its liver for the next foie gras entre.
So maybe now the DoJ can start looking at charges for seditious conspiracy?
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.