


President Biden confused key dates during his October interview with special counsel Robert Hur, forgetting which year his son Beau died of brain cancer, as well as the year Donald Trump was elected president, a transcript of the sitdown shows.
“Was it 2015 he had died?” Biden asked of his son Beau at one point in the interview, according to the transcript.
“There’s even some reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” the president said Feb. 8. “How the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damned business.”
In fact, the transcript shows Biden brought up Beau’s death unprompted by the special counsel.
Moments later, Biden referenced Trump’s election to the presidency and asked if he had been elected in “November of 2017” rather than the previous year.
The sequence contradicted Biden’s angry claim Feb. 8 that Hur had inappropriately brought up his son’s death during the interview.
The transcript was obtained by the New York Times, which published excerpts hours before Hur was due to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his probe of Biden’s retention of classified national security information after leaving office.
Hur triggered outrage in his report last month, when he said he would not recommend charges against Biden in part because the 81-year-old president would present himself to a jury as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”