“Watch me,” said Biden. But hearing him in the Hur interview is more revealing.

During the most of his time in the White House, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

In the end, it may be the sound of Mr. Biden's own voice, which proves what his helpers worked angry and spent hundreds of millions of campaigns dollars to try to prevent the public from seeing with his own eyes.

The five-hour and 10-minute audio recording of a special lawyer with Mr. Biden on October 8 and 9, 2023 shows that a president who is fighting to remind data and details whose thoughts are confused when he tries to reproduce events that took place a few years earlier.

The information in the audio recording that Axios published on Saturday is not new. The 258-page transcript of the interview by Mr. Biden by Robert K. Hur, the special consultant who examined his treatment of classified documents, was published in March 2024. In the middle of the president's re -election campaign, his report triggered a political fire storm.

But the sound of Mr. Bidens fragile voice and undiseasing answers offers its own revelation. Just like the majority of the Americans who believed him – and how Democrats repeatedly insisted that he was not.

In the days after which Mr. Hur had published his report, the Democrats participated in the news media to guarantee the president, and assured the public to their eyewitness views for his deep knowledge and the safe command of the nation and the world. He was “sharp” and at the head of his game they almost said in harmony. He was “focused, impressive, impressive and effective,” as Senator Jon Ossoff from Georgia, one of the youngest leading democrats, expressed it credibly. The officials of the bids administration refused to publish the audio recording of his interview and to assert the Executive privilege.