Released on Tuesday, the transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Bob Hur offered a glimpse of the man’s sense of humor as well as suggesting that criticism about his memory may be overblown. Image courtesy of Getty Images via Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe
• Special Counsel Bob Hur with Joe Biden’s interview transcript became public on Tuesday.
It appears from the transcript that Biden’s sense of humor and the criticisms about his recall may be exaggerated.Biden made automobile noises and joked about investigators seeing pictures of his wife in the log.
As soon as the transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur was made public on Tuesday, many analyzed it, looking for evidence that the president’s much criticized memory was deteriorating.
Nevertheless, a more thorough examination of their discussion exposes Biden’s sharp sense of humor under stress.
The transcript shows the president sought to defuse the upsetting environment in the discussion with jokes about investigators looking into his house for responsive data while laughing at himself. It also seems that criticism about Biden’s recall may be inflated.
“I hope you didn’t find any explicit pictures of me and my wife in a bikini,” the president reportedly told federal prosecutors, citing to The Washington Post. which is probably what you did. She is magnificent.”
In addition, Biden made light of the fact that FBI agents devote a greater amount of time inside his home compared to he does and implied that everything he writes is probably spelled incorrectly. The Post additionally pointed out that Biden laughed at the image of himself with his former political ally, South Carolina the senator Lindsey Graham.
Citing the image, he replied, “You can tell it’s old.” “I have my arm around Lindsey Graham.”
When the 81-year-old president was asked about numerous boxes found close to his Corvette, the subject matter shifted to his passion of vehicles. In accordance with The Post, he replicated a car’s sound twice throughout the exchange of words; the transcript reads, “(Makes car sound)” and “(Laughter).”
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Regarding the year-long inquiry into delicate objects discovered at the Biden house, Hur released an investigation report last month. In the end, he gave the excuse that Biden hadn’t been charged wit a crime due to his old age and poor recollection.
Hur also said in the article that Biden could not have recalled when his son Beau died out, a charge that Biden’s opponents in politics swiftly grabbed on.
Transcripts, however, suggest that was not quite the case. The incident began as Biden responded to a series of queries on possible places to store for work-related documents following his vice presidential term.
“Keep in mind that throughout this period, my son is —
has been deployed or is going to be gone,” Biden said, as reported by NBC.
As he thought back on his last nearly ten years, Biden declared aloud, “What month did Beau die?” Then he said, “Oh God, May 30,” absolutely accurately.
Hur quickly proposed that the group take a break when the other visitors verified the year, as reported by the Post.
“No,” Biden said, as reported by the Post, indicating the deep effect Beau’s 2015 brain tumor demise had on him. “Let me just keep going to get it done.”
Hur, a former employee of the Trump Justice Department, defended his findings on Tuesday in testimony before the House, according to The New York Post.