After months of stonewalling, the Trump administration is preparing to release the full audio recording of Joe Biden’s 2023 interview with then–Special Counsel Robert Hur—a move that promises to peel back the final layers of one of the most tightly guarded episodes of Biden’s presidency. According to Politico’s Dasha Burns, multiple Republicans have been briefed by White House officials on the planned disclosure, intended to fulfill a backlog of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
This is the moment the Biden team has dreaded for over a year.
The interview, tied to Biden’s illegal retention of classified documents, has long been shrouded in secrecy. Hur’s report noted Biden was a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”—a phrase that sent shockwaves through the political world and torpedoed the “sharp-as-ever” image Biden’s allies tried so hard to maintain.
Scoop: The Trump admin is making plans to release the audio of Biden’s interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents and raised questions about his mental acuity, per two Republicans briefed by top Trump officials. w/…
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) May 8, 2025
One particularly damning moment came when Biden forgot the year his son Beau died—something that wasn’t prompted by Hur, but offered unprompted by Biden himself. The White House and its media allies tried to spin it by blaming Hur for being “inappropriate,” but the transcript proved otherwise. The lie fell apart.
And so began a furious campaign to keep the audio under wraps, all under the guise of “protecting investigative integrity” and “preventing future witness chilling.” But the real reason? The tape likely sounds even worse than the transcript reads.
When Hur testified before Congress, he made clear that Biden wasn’t just having a bad day—he was showing clear signs of cognitive decline. Democrats, sensing a political disaster, didn’t refute the substance of his findings—they just attacked Hur himself. And yet, not one of them called for the audio to be released to set the record straight. If Biden was competent and composed, wouldn’t the tape prove it?
Brutal for Biden’s 2028 bid https://t.co/r9CRwXcA3O
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 8, 2025
Instead, the Biden White House invoked executive privilege to block the release ahead of the 2024 election. That move didn’t just reek of political damage control — it confirmed it.
While conservatives and independent outlets demanded transparency, the mainstream media closed ranks. They mocked, downplayed, and flat-out ignored what should have been the defining question of the Biden presidency: Is the Commander-in-Chief mentally fit to lead?
Dave is good at snarky cool kid commentary, it’s what made him so great at pissing Felicia Somnez off and costing his job at the Washington Post, for a second time.
It’s also in service of getting to the bottom of the biggest political cover-up of our lives.
You guys don’t get… https://t.co/gAnCQhe0jQ
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 8, 2025
And now, as the Trump administration signals its readiness to let the public hear what Biden actually said (and how he said it), journalists aren’t celebrating the transparency. They’re sneering. Because this isn’t just a political problem for Biden — it’s an existential embarrassment for the press that spent years protecting the myth of Biden’s lucidity.
They dismissed video montages as “cheap fakes,” rolled their eyes at questions about Biden’s mental sharpness, and labeled critics as conspiracy theorists. But after Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, the dam broke. The excuses vanished. And now, with these tapes potentially being released, the media’s cover-up will have audio receipts.
