LINDSEY REISER:
00:01:31
This was part of the investigation in which Hur in his final report had said there was no likelihood or not enough likelihood of a conviction because the jury would find him too sympathetic and elderly. Am I remembering that correctly? Yeah, that's correct. So although Hur believed that there was strong evidence of classified material that Biden was handling inappropriately, he believed that the jurors would let him off. And part of that was because Hur believed that Joe seemed to be kind of having declining mental faculties, and that is not super clear from the recordings that we see here from 2017. But what you do get is an impression of a man who is struggling to remember certain facts from several years ago and comes off as affable, comes off as wanting to defend his record. But certainly in the later 2023 interview that Robert Hur did with Biden, he concluded that Biden was a man who would come off as an elderly person with a poor memory who a jury would sympathize with, and that's why he declined to file charges.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:02:34
Again, quickly, just to stress the timeline here, these recordings were taken when? I see one recording that was in February of 2017 in which he was having trouble remembering certain details. That's right. So some of the allegations in Hur's report are that Biden was having trouble with his memory back then. So we're talking years before he even became president. Listening to these recordings today, we haven't seen anything that's an absolute slam dunk of Biden was really struggling with mental faculties, but certainly there are moments where he seems confused, where he's struggling to remember things. And yeah, the period we're talking about here is recordings from 2016 and 2017.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:03:15
OK, Josh Boswell, thank you.
