President Joe Biden was just a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” At least that’s how Special Counsel Robert Hur described the Autopen President. Hur concluded as much in his 2024 report that let Biden off the hook for mishandling classified documents because a liberal Washington, D.C., jury would most likely not convict the senile old man.
Now, the long-awaited release of the audio recordings of Biden’s conversations with his memoir ghostwriter paints a picture of a politician in the throes of cognitive decline before he became commander-in-chief — a former vice president who broke the law and got away with it.