Audio president Joe BidenThe 2023 interview with a special defense counsel Robert Hur regarding the irregular possession of classified documents was published for more than a year after its administrations published transcripts.
Shots, published AxiosDiscover the measure 46. The President, then fought to remember the key details and dates, encouraged his lawyers and talked in stopping, whispering voice, accentuated long silence.
Loosen why White house He refused to let the recordings were still in the office in the middle of question about his mental sharpness, and maybe why he could rush him in any trial in question as “nice, good meaning of the” senior memory. “
Then the White House hit the HUR’s assessment, insisting that it was “sharp” and that all attacks on the Bisen was politically motivated – still, the special adviser encounters, and the tone of the interview is friendly and mainly seems relaxed.
The sound edition comes in front of the announcement of a new book about the White House and the presidential campaign that hides the decline in the president as he grew into another mandate in function. Original sin Author Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNNs Jake Tapper will be released on Tuesday.
During the two three-hour sessions with Hur and his counsel, Biden’s lawyers had to remind him of the year, his son Beau died years that Donald Trump was first elected president – 2015. And 2016. Year.
If the recordings add a new dimension to what is already known from the transcripts is a longitude of pauses and slowly taking the nature of some answers. Further emphasis on these quiet moments from president’s sound is the beat of the hour in the background.
However, Biden remains engaged despite memory failure. Sometimes, Axios Notes, rupts jokes and shoots humorous men and “sounded”, “sounded more like nostalgics, a grandfather narrator than a potential accused who could be charged with secret papers.”
Perhaps the basis of the interview was to remember a little remembering how or why he came to have classified documents in his possession after his two concepts as Vice President of President Barack Obama.
At one point, his lawyer Bob Bauer, warns of entering speculation on how documents may have completed where they managed, emphasizing that the president does not remember special details.
The time of the interview is also noted. The first session was held on 8. October 2023, a day after Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza. After the international crisis that would start to launch a conflict that continues to this day, Biden is slow, oblivion, and often passes on the topic.
However, during the second session, the next day, 9. October, the president sounds more engagement and stronger, Axios Notes.
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