Transcript of Joe Biden’s Interview with Hur Reveals How the Date of Beau Biden’s Death Came Up

The transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with investigators looking into his handling of classified documents shows that special counsel Robert Hur did not ask him about Beau Biden’s death, as the president falsely claimed in February. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden angrily said in response to Hur writing in his report on the investigation that Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.” “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business,” Biden said in a Feb. 8 White House press conference. According to the transcript of the Oct. 8, 2023, interview, Biden — not Hur’s team — brought up the date of his son’s death in 2015 from brain cancer when he was answering Hur’s question about where he stored papers related to his post-vice presidency work projects. The transcript also shows that Biden remembered the month and day that Beau died, but he appeared to need help remembering the year. Talk of Beau Biden’s Death On March 12, Hur testified before Congress, and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee published transcripts of the interviews investigators did with Biden last...