Transcripts of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with Joe Biden regarding the mishandling of classified documents reveal that the aging Biden couldn’t remember the name for a fax machine.
Biden’s troublingly poor memory was evident after Hur asked him about bringing classified documents to his Wilmington, Delaware, lake house.
After telling Hur that he “occasionally” brought classified information to the house because he “did business there,” Biden offered a description of the library at the property from where he worked: “I have a library, and the library has a — two filing cabinets in it, and it has built into the walls — when I built that home, built into the walls, a space for a copy machine, for a — what do you call it, when they send these –”
“Fax machine,” Ed Siskel, Biden’s counsel, chimed in. “Fax machine,” Biden repeated.
Biden’s inability to recall the name of a piece of equipment he would have spent three decades using regularly — modern fax machines were invented in the mid-1970s and became obsolete in the late 1990s — is sure to add to concerns about the 81-year-old’s mental faculties.
Hur’s initial report on his investigation of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents described the President as an “elderly man with poor memory.” In addition to raising more questions about Biden’s mental state, the full transcripts of Hur’s interviews, released Tuesday, also prove that Biden lied about forgetting when his son Beau died.
