Former President Joe Biden (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In other sections of the audio, Biden seems confused, asking what year his son, Beau Biden, died, and what year he left the vice presidency.
The audio, related to an investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents while vice president, came out after more than a year of congressional lawmakers demanding its release amid questions about the former president’s memory lapses and mental acuity.
The House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General Merrick Garland in July for the audio recordings, stressing the importance of the "verbal and nonverbal context" of Biden's answers that could be provided by the audio recordings, especially considering Hur opted against charging Biden after the interview, partly because Biden was viewed as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Hur opted against charging Biden after the interview, in part, because Biden was viewed as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." (Getty Images)
The committee argued at the time that the audio recordings, not merely the transcripts of them, are "the best available evidence of how President Biden presented himself during the interview."
That lawsuit was filed before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race in July after he struggled in a June debate with Trump.
Biden had exerted executive privilege over the audio recordings while president.
Hur, who released his report to the public in February 2024 after months of investigation, did not recommend criminal charges against Biden for mishandling and retaining classified documents, and he said he would not bring charges against Biden even if he were not in the Oval Office.
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Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other countries, among other records related to national security and foreign policy that Hur said implicated "sensitive intelligence sources and methods."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Biden for comment.
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