Donald Trump’s government leaked to the press the audio of the interrogations carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office in 2023 to the then US president, Joe Biden, and who at the time unleashed a debate On the cognitive state of the politician democrat.
The recording, published by the Axios portal, lasts more than five hours and it shows moments in which Biden, which was then 80 years old, was then 80 years old, presents difficulties to remember key datessuch as the death of his son Beau or the year in which he stopped being vice president.
Special prosecutor Robert Hur interrogated Biden on October 8 and 9, 2023 as part of an investigation for the discovery of documents classified in his private residence, corresponding to his time as vice president during the mandate of Barack Obama (2009-2017).
Hur issued in 2024 a report in which he affirmed that there was not enough evidence to process Biden, but also stressed that His memory was “significantly limited” And he speculated that it would be difficult to convince a jury to condemn him, due to his image of “old man with good intentions and bad memory.”
That report, criticized at the time by the White House, was a hard blow to the aspirations of Biden, who sought his re -election for a second mandate, while criticism grew by his advanced age and doubts about his cognitive state.
Biden ended up abandoning the electoral race after his poor performance in a debate with Trump and gave the witness to his vice president, Kamala Harris, who was defeated at the polls by the Republican.
The audio filtration, which the previous government had refused to publish, coincides with a time when Biden’s mental state is again in the center of the debate, due to the publication of a book that indicates that its environment covered up its apparent decline. “I know people of 89, 90, 92 and 93 who are perfect. But Joe is not one of them and they hid him“Trump, 78, told the press.
Unlike Biden, Trump was charged, among other cases, for having deliberately retained classified documents of his first mandate in the White House (2017-2021), but the Prosecutor’s Office discarded the accusation after his electoral victory.
