Memory Lapses, Forgotten Advisers, and the Corporate Machine That Runs the White House
Listen to the 2017 tapes. Biden loses the thread mid-sentence. He cannot recall the name of economic adviser Alan Krueger. He admits he should write names down because he keeps forgetting them. He says he is “so confused.” The pauses stretch. The “ums” multiply.
Special Counsel Robert Hur later cited these very recordings when declining to charge Biden, describing a man with a poor memory who would present as a sympathetic elderly figure to a jury. The Oversight Project release makes the timeline undeniable: the decline was already advanced while Biden was still a private citizen preparing a book. Read more
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