The government of Donald Trump The press leaked the Audio of the interrogations made by the Prosecutor’s Office in 2023 to the then US president, Joe Biden, and that at the time they unleashed a debate on the cognitive state of the Democratic politician.
The recording, published by the Axios portal, has a duration of more than five hours and in it there are moments in which they drill, which then had 80 years, It presents difficulties for Remember key dates, as the death of his son Beau or the year in which he stopped being vice president.
The special prosecutor Robert how He interrogated Biden on October 8 and 9, 2023 as part of an investigation of the discovery of documents classified in his private residence, corresponding to his time as vice president during the mandate of Barack Obama, between 2009 and 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 speculated that it would be difficult to convince a jury to condemn him, due to his image of “Elder with good intentions and bad memory.”
The resignation
That report, criticized at the time by the White House, was a Hard blow For the aspirations of Biden, who sought his re -election for a second mandate, while criticism grew due to 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 from 89, 90, 92 and 93 who are perfect. But Joe is not one of them And they hid it, “Trump, 78, told the press.
Unlike Biden, Trump was accused among other cases, having deliberately retained classified documents of its first mandate in the White House (2017-2021), but The Prosecutor’s Office discarded the accusation After his electoral victory.
