The transcript that was released this morning is something most don’t have time to read as it is around 250 pages long. But someone at the Free Beacon read it and wrote about how Biden kept trailing off into tangents, some of which were just strange.
Here’s part of what they wrote today:
But the transcripts also reveal that Biden went off on a number of tangents during his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur, including anecdotes about what sound a car makes, a “risqué” bathing suit his 72-year-old wife wears, and a horrific industrial accident where a young man’s genitalia was burned off.
Early on in his Oct. 8 interview with Hur, the special counsel asked Biden if he ever transferred any documents from his vice presidential residence to his primary Delaware residence. Biden answered that he did “occasionally,” and as he provided context to his answer, the president deemed it necessary to mention that first lady Jill Biden looks great in a bikini.
“You left everything in place,” Biden told Hur in reference to the special counsel’s search of his Delaware lake house. “I just hope you didn’t find any risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit. Which you probably did. She’s beautiful.”
Biden didn’t stop there. He proceeded to provide the special counsel a history lesson on his struggles as a “frustrated architect” designing plans for the home as it was being built. Biden went into great detail about how he obtained its furnishings, including a “beautiful desk” he purchased during his brief career as an attorney prior to his election to the Senate in 1970.
During this tangent, Biden revealed a remarkable feat: He hit a target hundreds of yards away with a bow and arrow during a visit to Mongolia in August 2011.
“I’m not a bad archer,” Biden said, after referring to Mongolian archers as “gorillas.” “But … I hit the goddamn target.”
A video uploaded by the Obama administration of the occasion shows Biden shooting a bow into an empty field. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Later, as Hur attempted to steer the conversation back to how classified documents made their way from Biden’s West Wing office to his personal residences, Biden again veered into an unrelated story about how he “didn’t take law school very seriously,” but had a knack for unpacking tort cases on the fly.
“We had a really difficult professor,” Biden recalled. “He called on me to—you know how they do in law school, discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping.”
Biden, who once falsely claimed he graduated at the top of his class from Syracuse Law School, failed a class after plagiarizing from a law review article about torts. That plagiarism scandal contributed to his failed presidential bid in 1987.
Biden then detailed a bizarre episode during one of his first jobs out of law school involving a 23-year-old construction worker with a seared penis and a missing testicle, and how the case ultimately led him to enter politics.
“This poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside,” Biden told Hur. “And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he—a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.”
Biden claimed in a memoir that part of the reason he entered politics was his experience as a lifeguard in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Joe Biden is a weird dude. He’s like an old grandpa just telling stories to anyone who will listen, most of which aren’t remotely true.
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