Former President Joe Biden found himself in quite the predicament last week after Axios obtained the recordings from his deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding the classified documents found at his Delaware home.
The outlet reported that the audio transcript revealed the former president essentially admitted to keeping a certain Afghanistan-related document for "posterity's sake," which to some indicates an admission of guilt.
The now-infamous interview with Hur took place in October of 2023, and at the time, it created great controversy.
During the conversation with Hur, Biden's attorneys were apparently flustered with the aging president's answers, and understandably so.
As the elderly president rambled on during the conversation with Hur, one of Biden's attorneys was quick to interject in what appeared to be an effort to save the president from incriminating himself.
"I just really would like to avoid, for the purpose of a clean record, getting into speculative areas...He does not recall specifically intending to keep this memo after he left the vice presidency," attorney Bob Bauer said at the time.
What really messed Biden up is that at first, he claimed he didn't know how he came into possession of the document.
"Your answer is that you don't know," Bauer told the president at one point.
The president then gave a completely different answer when he was called out about several reports that had indicated otherwise.
Axios noted:
But then deputy special counsel Marc Krickbaum noted that journalists had written about the document, and he asked whether Biden had intended to keep it because of its historical value, prompting Biden to say, "I guess I wanted to hang onto it just for posterity's sake"
A spokesperson for the former president attempted to insist that the audio transcript was simply a repeat of what had already been released in text version last year.
"The transcripts were released by the Biden administration more than a year ago. The audio does nothing but confirm what is already public," spokesperson Kelly Scully said.
Biden's bad week turned worse over the weekend when it was revealed that he has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.
The story is developing, but the latest reports indicated that the cancer has already spread to his bones, which is never a good sign.
