Democrat President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege to block lawmakers from accessing the recordings from his interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Hur interviewed Biden during his investigation into the president’s mishandling of classified documents.
However, after interviewing Biden, Hur determined that Biden was too elderly and mentally challenged for the special counsel to secure a conviction from a jury.
Despite concluding that Biden had mishandled the material, Hur noted in his report that the president came across during the interviews as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden met with Hur for about five hours last year.
During the interviews, Biden was grilled about his handling of the classified documents.
Hur noted in his report that Biden struggled to remember key events from his life, including when his own son had died and what years he served as vice president.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” Hur wrote in his report.
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president well into his eighties – of a serious