President Joe Biden brought up his son Beau Biden’s death just seven minutes into his interview with Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Robert Hur, according to the transcript of the five-hour meeting. After the special counsel’s report was released in February, the President lashed out at Hur — leading the American people to believe it was the special counsel who first broached the subject of Beau’s death.
The DOJ special counsel had been probing Biden on his activities at the end of his then-Vice Presidency and his decision to locate the Biden Cancer Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Biden was also asked about his decision to write a book in the last days of the Obama government, with the President explaining he wanted to “write a book about my son because he was a remarkable man” so that his family would “understand who he was and have some documentation of it.”
This directly contradicts Biden’s assertion at his February address on Hur’s report in which he insisted it was the special counsel who first broached the subject of his son’s death. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden growled at the time, adding: “Frankly when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
The President had claimed it was Hur who had directly asked the date of his son’s death. However, the interview transcript shows that Biden himself broached that subject as well. Hur noted in his report that Biden had become confused and could not remember the actual date or year in which Beau Biden had died of cancer.
