Newly released transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with DOJ special counsel Robert Hur reveals Biden spoke in detail about key events.
“A Post review of the complete 258-page Hur transcript, which is expected to be provided to Congress on Tuesday morning, paints a more nuanced portrait of the exchanges between Biden and the special counsel. Biden doesn’t come across as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be — and Hur doesn’t appear as crass as Biden has made him out to be.
“Just allow me to say for a moment, I am so terribly, terribly sorry for your loss,” Hur said after Biden first raised the death of his son.
The full transcript provides a more complete window into the back and forth between the two men, in which Biden frequently joked with prosecutors in a setting that seemed more chummy than antagonistic. (“I just warn you all: Never make one great eulogy because you get asked to do everybody’s eulogy,” Biden said at one point.) But the president also frequently digressed, with stories about trips to Mongolia, about the time he helped represent a client who lost one testicle and part of his penis, and later twice mimicking the sounds of a car.” [READ MORE]
