Staff Reports
President Joe Biden is using executive privilege to prevent the release of audio and video recordings from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents, recommended no charges but raised concerns about the president’s cognitive health and memory in his final report.
Republican Representatives Jim Jordan and James Comer are demanding the release of Hur’s interviews with Biden. The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated that Biden will invoke executive privilege to keep these recordings private. DOJ official Carlos Felipe Uriarte explained that it is a long-standing position of the executive branch that asserting the President’s executive privilege claim protects one from being prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress.
🚨Wow
Joe Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio of his interview with the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents.
The same interview that led the special counsel to describe Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
What’s he hiding? pic.twitter.com/nFKQpUwYcd
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) May 16, 2024
Attorney General Merrick Garland also stated that Biden’s conversations with Hur are protected by executive privilege, adding that releasing these interviews would jeopardize the DOJ's ability to conduct similar high-profile investigations in the future.
The final report on Biden’s mishandling of classified materials is politically damaging, with Hur suggesting that a jury would see Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory." Hur noted a significant decline in Biden's memory since his previous 2017 interview, including Biden’s inability to recall the exact time frame of his son Beau Biden’s passing.
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