New audio undercuts Dems who defended Biden, slammed Hur after classified docs report revealed memory loss

By Fox News · Fox News

After Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation and the subsequent report into former President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents, Democrats rushed to defend the 46th president from his characterization that Biden was an "elderly man with a poor memory." The left-wing's narrative surrounding Biden's mental cognition — especially as he was running for reelection against President Donald Trump — is now crumbling after audio tapes from the investigation were revealed Monday night. Prominent Democrats lined up to defend Biden when the initial report was released in 2024, many using the same line that Hur's report was "gratuitous." Then-Vice President Kamala Harris was chief among the chorus of defenders, saying that the report was "inaccurate and inappropriate." "The way that the President’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts," she told reporters at an event in Washington at the time. She also said the report was "clearly politically motivated, gratuitous." Months later, Biden dropped out of the presidential race and was replaced on the ticket by his No. 2 without a primary election to decide his replacement. BIDEN'S HUR INTERVIEW TAPES COULD NOW GO PUBLIC AFTER HIS ATTORNEYS WAVE WHITE FLAG "What everyone will soon realize is that this is a Republican special counsel who completely went out of his way to editorialize, to include material in his report that is unnecessary and irrelevant to what he was tasked with doing," Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., piled on in comments to ABC at the time. Hur's appointment was nonpartisan. In 2023, Hur was investigating Biden for retaining classified information. At the center of the investigation were audio tapes of Biden from interviews with his "Promise Me, Dad" memoir ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, from 2016 and 2017. Hur's report concluded that Biden did, in fact, retain classified documents, but that prosecuting him might not lead to a conviction, because he could be viewe…