House Democrat pushes to impeach ‘authoritarian’ Trump
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is once again calling on his colleagues in the House to impeach President Donald Trump, saying the president has “devolved American democracy into authoritarianism.” “I pen this communique with a heavy heart, driven by a conscience that will not allow me to ignore my well-founded, strong pre-election condemnation of Donald John Trump as a threat to American democracy that has now become our reality,” Green wrote in a letter urging his colleagues to impeach the president. Green argues that, contrary to what many believe, there does not need to be a constitutional crisis in order to impeach a president. HOUSE DEMOCRAT ANNOUNCES ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST TRUMP On Thursday, he filed H. Res. 415, “Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.” In the articles of impeachment, Green claims that Trump has engaged in authoritarian rule, violated due process, denigrated federal judges and ignored court orders, including ones from the Supreme Court. He also claims that Trump condoned “untruthful statements” against the Court’s opinion regarding the deportation of accused MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. TOP HOUSE DEMS SAY THEY’LL JOIN GOP TO QUASH TRUMP IMPEACHMENT EFFORT “An authoritarian does not have to commit a codified statutory offense to be impeached. The constitutional law that authoritarian President Trump would have Congress use to impeach a federal judge for ruling against him (Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution) is the same law that has been used, and can be used, to impeach him again for making his threats to democracy a reality,” Green wrote in the articles of impeachment, He then vowed to “use that law again.” Green is the second member of Congress to issue articles of impeachment against Trump in the president’s second term. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., also called for Trump’s impeachment, but he later withdrew the bill after getting backlash from party leadership. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., reportedly called the bill “idiotic,” according to Axios. However, Nadler was previously a sponsor of the measure. In his letter, Green made it clear that he was not afraid to “stand alone” against Trump. “I encourage all members to vote with their conscience. As for me, I stand where I have stood on impeachment, which is a question of conscience, even when the odds are against me — it is better for me to stand alone than not stand at all — it won’t be the first time,” Green wrote. Green has never been silent about his opposition to Trump, even making multiple attempts to impeach the president during his first term. In March 2025, he was removed from Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress after he heckled the president. He was eventually censured for the protest.
Minor’s lawsuits against adult sites show new state law is working as intended to protect kids: state AG
Four first-of-a-kind lawsuits in Kansas were filed Monday aiming to hold porn websites accountable for violating state law, which mandates they use adequate age-verification systems. There are no federal laws requiring porn sites to verify a user’s age. The suits, filed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and a Kansas law firm on behalf of a minor child and the child’s mother, are groundbreaking. It is apparently the first time a minor is seeking a legal remedy through the provisions of state age-verification laws for pornographic sites, according to NCOSE’s general counsel. Kansas is among roughly 20 other states that have enacted age-verification laws for porn sites. Louisiana became the first in 2023. SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT HIT WITH SCATHING AD CAMPAIGN AMID ANGER OVER AI CHATBOTS SEXUALLY EXPLOITING KIDS “The Kansas law also allows for a private right of action, meaning that private individuals and organizations can bring cases against offending companies or websites,” Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told Fox News Digital. Kobach filed Kansas’s first lawsuit in January against a porn site over a lack of age-verification mechanisms, a case that is ongoing. “I think the combination of my office’s first action followed by this private action shows that the law is operating as the legislature intended,” Kobach said. NCOSE sued on behalf of a minor child, whose mother took numerous measures to ensure her 14-year-old child would not be exposed to pornographic websites but later learned her child was using an old laptop to access the sites. Online algorithms and content-curation processes from these sites’ parent companies, or from contractors working for the sites, drove the teenager to at least two of the sites, according to the initial complaints filed with NCOSE. According to NCOSE, pornography is harmful to children because it disrupts the natural formation of children’s sexual functions and maturation. Studies have also shown links between pornography and sexual violence and a litany of other health and well-being issues. GOP LAWMAKERS TARGET ONLINE PORNOGRAPHY, PROPOSE INTERSTATE BAN ON OBSCENE CONTENT “The parents in this instance thought they did everything right,” NCOSE General Counsel Benjamin Bull said. “It’s not enough just to try to prevent children from gaining access. It’s just a question of when children will gain access. “They’ll find a way. It’ll either be the kid next door with a kid in school, or an old, you know, thrown-away computer up in the closet some place. And, so, unless these online platforms actually install age verification, this boy’s … what’s happened to him and what’s happened to hundreds of thousands of others is just going to continue and get worse.” According to the lawsuits filed Monday on behalf of the 14-year-old, at least one of the four pornographic sites being sued, Chaturbate, ostensibly has an age-verification mechanism, but it can be easily manipulated, and that does not satisfy Kansas’ law. Multi Media LLC, Chaturbate’s parent company, insisted to Fox News Digital the site “is fully compliant” with Kansas law, calling the lawsuit against it “completely baseless.” PORN CASE IN THE SUPREME COURT THIS WEEK IS ABOUT PROTECTING CHILDREN, SAYS REPUBLICAN AG “As we explained in great detail to the plaintiff’s counsel back in November, the company thoroughly investigated the claim and found the individual was never able to view any explicit content on the company’s platform. The platform’s ID verification age gate functioned exactly as expected, and the individual’s attempts to view adult content without first proving he was an adult were entirely thwarted,” a company spokesperson for Multi Media LLC told Fox News Digital. “The company takes very seriously its responsibility to ensure that the platform only publishes material created and viewed by consenting adults,” the spokesperson added. “Since the law went into effect, the company has displayed an ‘age gate’ page to any visitor who arrives on the site from an IP address that is geolocated in Kansas and who has not previously been verified as an adult, by requiring the individual to provide a government issued photo ID.” The spokesperson added that Multi Media LLC intends “to seek sanctions” against the plaintiff over its “frivolous complaint,” noting that when the company was first contacted about the allegations by the plaintiff in November, Multi Media LLC explained why suing it was baseless. But AG Kobach said the lawsuit brought by the mother and son, along with another unidentified “friend” of the family, shows state law is doing its job. “I think the really important point, at least from my perspective, is that laws are working, and companies are being taken to task for marketing this material in a way that minors can get it when there are now technologies out there to prevent that from happening,” Kobach told Fox News Digital. The 14-year-old and his mother, with the help of NCOSE and others, are seeking statutory damages of no less than $50,000 per violation in each of their four lawsuits. They are also seeking actual damages, attorney fees and any “further relief” that the court considers fair.
James Carville dismisses Democratic Party’s record-low polling: ‘We’re winning elections’
Despite a flurry of polling so far this year indicating the Democratic Party’s favorability sinking to record lows, veteran Democratic strategist and pundit James Carville remains optimistic, as he points to recent ballot box victories by his party. “You can’t discount people winning elections,” Carville told Fox News Digital this week. Carville spoke the day after a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was the latest to spell trouble for the Democratic Party, six months after they suffered setbacks up and down the ballot at the hands of now-President Donald Trump and Republicans. The Democratic Party has been in the political wilderness since last November’s elections, when Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black and Hispanic voters as well as younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party’s base. ON THE RISE: NEW POLL INDICATES TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATINGS EDGING UP According to the survey, only about one-third of Democrats are very or somewhat optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party. That’s a steep decline from last July, when around six in 10 Democrats said they were optimistic. The survey, conducted May 1-5, points to an increase in optimism among Republicans, with 55% more optimistic about the future of the GOP, up from 47% last summer. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING Since Trump’s return to power earlier this year, an increasingly energized base of Democrats is urging party leaders to take a stronger stand in pushing back against the president’s sweeping and controversial agenda during the opening months of his second administration. And their anger is directed not only at Republicans, but also at Democrats they feel aren’t vocal enough in their opposition to Trump. And that’s fueled the plunge in the Democratic Party’s favorable ratings, which have hit historic lows in several recent surveys. The Democrats’ ratings stood underwater in the most recent Fox News national poll at 41% favorable and 56% unfavorable in a survey conducted April 18-21. That’s an all-time low for the Democrats in Fox News polling. And for the first time in a decade, the party’s standing was lower than that of the GOP, which stood at 44% favorable and 54% unfavorable. The figures were reversed last summer, when Fox News last asked the party favorability question in one of its surveys. The Democratic Party’s favorable ratings were well in negative territory in a Pew Research national survey — 38% favorable, 60% unfavorable — conducted in early April and at 36% favorable, 60% unfavorable in a Wall Street Journal poll in the field a couple of weeks earlier. And national polls conducted in February by Quinnipiac University and in March by CNN and by NBC News also indicated the favorable ratings for the Democratic Party sinking to all-time lows. Confidence in the Democratic Party’s congressional leadership sunk to an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll conducted early last month. The confidence rating for Democrats’ leadership in Congress stood at 25% in the survey, which was nine points below the previous low of 34% recorded in 2023. And the semi-annual Harvard Youth Poll, which was released late last month, indicated that approval ratings for Democrats in Congress among Americans aged 18-29 nosedived. “I don’t doubt any of that’s true,” Carville told Fox News. “But there’s one thing: We’re winning elections left and right as we’re talking about how the Democratic number or image is low.” John Ewing, Jr., a Democrat, this week ousted a longtime Republican mayor in Omaha, Nebraska, a blue dot in a reliably red state. Ewing will become Omaha’s first Black mayor. Last month, the Democrat-aligned candidate comfortably defeated the Republican-aligned candidate in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court election. The high-profile and expensive campaign grabbed plenty of national attention and outside money. Democrats have also performed very well so far this year in special elections, including flipping red state Senate seats in Iowa and Pennsylvania. In addition to looking back, Carville also pointed ahead to November’s gubernatorial election in Virginia, where Democrats hope to win back the governor’s office in Richmond. “Let’s see what’s going to happen in Virginia,” said Carville, who first grabbed national attention for his work as a lead strategist on former President Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. And Carville predicted that “we’re going to win that.”
Biden jokes ‘I’m a young man’ during interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur
Former President Joe Biden joked that he was a “young man” during an October 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur over his mishandling of classified documents, newly released audio shows. Axios released audio on Friday from Biden’s interviews with Hur in which the then-president appeared to struggle to remember when his son Beau died, when he left office as vice president, what year President Donald Trump was elected to his first term or why he had classified documents that should not have been in his possession. In addition to Biden’s memory lapses, the recordings showed him slurring his words and muttering when speaking to Hur. BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW Transcripts of the interviews — conducted on Oct. 8 and 9, 2023 — were released on March 12, 2024. On the first day of the interview, Hur stressed the importance of answering truthfully and urged Biden to make his best effort to recall the events in question, which the prosecutor acknowledged happened years ago. “I’m a young man, so it’s not a problem,” Biden, now 82, jokingly responded. “Okay, great. Glad to hear it,” Hur replied. BIDEN REPEATEDLY SAYS ‘I DON’T REMEMBER’ REGARDING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN NEWLY RELEASED HUR INTERVIEW AUDIO Hur, who was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents, said in his report, released on Feb. 5, 2024, that he declined to bring charges against the president, in part, because a jury would find him a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” The report acknowledged that the documents were “willfully” obtained by Biden during his time as vice president and as a senator. “I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president, and I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation,” Biden said when questioned by Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy days after Hur released his report. The special counsel’s report, in addition to Biden’s gaffe-prone public appearances, amplified pressure from Republicans who said he lacked the mental fitness needed to serve as president. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Democrats and Biden’s White House initially criticized Hur for his report, insisting the then-president was “sharp” and that the special counsel was politically motivated. Later in 2024, during Biden’s re-election campaign, Democrats urged him to drop out of the race over his performance in the June presidential debate against Trump, citing his age and mental acuity. Biden formally dropped out of the presidential race in July and finished his term. His vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Trump in November’s general election.
FLASHBACK: Biden shrugs off Hur report when pressed by Peter Doocy: ‘I know what the hell I’m doing’
Former President Joe Biden early last year dismissed Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that sparked additional concern about his mental acuity, just months after he was interviewed about his mishandling of classified documents. Axios on Friday released audio from Biden’s October 2023 interviews with Hur. In the recordings, Biden seemed to struggle to remember when his son Beau died, when he left office as vice president, what year President Donald Trump was elected to his first term, or why he had classified documents that should not have been in his possession. The recordings not only showed Biden’s memory lapses, but also slurring his words and muttering when speaking to Hur. Transcripts of the interviews — conducted on Oct. 8 and 9 of 2023 — were released on March 12, 2024. In February 2024, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy was the first to question Biden about Hur’s report on his mental fitness. BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW “Something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,’” Doocy said to Biden at a press conference on Feb. 8, 2024. Biden responded: “I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president and I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation—” Doocy then asked Biden how bad his memory was and if he could continue as president. BIDEN REPEATEDLY SAYS ‘I DON’T REMEMBER’ REGARDING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN NEWLY RELEASED HUR INTERVIEW AUDIO “My memory is so bad I let you speak,” Biden told him. Hur, who was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents, said he declined to bring charges against him, in part, because a jury would find him to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” despite the acknowledgment that the documents were “willfully” obtained by Biden during his time as vice president and as a senator. The special counsel’s report, in addition to gaffes seen during Biden’s public appearances, amplified pressure from Republicans who said he lacked the mental fitness needed to serve as president. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Democrats and Biden’s White House initially criticized Hur for his report, repeatedly insisting he was “sharp” and that the special counsel was politically motivated. Later in 2024, amid Biden’s re-election campaign, Democrats called on him to drop his candidacy over his performance in the June presidential debate against Trump, citing his age and mental acuity. Biden, now 82, ended his presidential campaign in July but finished his term, and his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Trump in November’s general election.
New Hur interview tapes detailing Mongolia trip shed light on Hur’s ‘sympathetic’ characterization of Biden
Though new audio recordings released by Axios paint a picture of an elderly man suffering memory loss, rare exchanges showed glimpses into former President Joe Biden’s earlier days, and shed light on what could have led to Hur’s “sympathetic” characterization and findings related to the investigation. Biden reminisced during his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur about a 2011 visit to Mangolia where he claimed to have “embarrassed the hell out of the leader of Mongolia.” “I went to Mongolia and, and great pictures,” Biden said. “They were showing — they were doing a what they would do at the time of the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the 14 — in the 800s. And they — and then show what a normal day was, or how they, how they bivouac.” FORMER WHITE HOUSE SENIOR AIDE SAYS BIDEN BECAME LIKE ‘A DIFFERENT PERSON’ AS HE AGED IN OFFICE: REPORT He described being “out in the middle of nowhere” and looking up on a hill, seeing a tiny line of a 20-mile horse race between kids under the age of 16 on bareback. “And you know, there are sumo wrestlers doin’ everything they do,” Biden said lightheartedly. He said the leaders walked over to a target with bales of hay a hundred yards away, where locals were practicing their aim. BIDEN ADMIN OFFICIALS NOTICED STAMINA ISSUES IN PRESIDENT’S FIRST FEW MONTHS IN OFFICE: REPORT “I think — I don’t know if it was to embarrass me or to make a point, but I get handed the bow and arrow,” Biden said. “I’m not a bad archer. But (indiscernible) where I can pull it back, so I — and pure luck, I hit the goddamn target.” The people in the interview room burst into laughter, to which Biden assured them, “No, I really did.” He went on to describe the scene — “20 bales of hay with a big target in the middle of the bale of hay.” AS BIDEN DODGES PRESS ON BRAZIL TRIP, FRUSTRATED REPORTERS RESORT TO HOLDING UP SIGNS WITH QUESTIONS “And so I didn’t mean anything by it, I turned to the prime minister and handed it to him and the poor son-of-a-bitch couldn’t pull it back,” Biden said. The room roared with laughter once again. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “I was like, ‘oh, God,’” Biden said through the cackling. Hur ultimately decided the former president should not be charged criminally for having classified Obama-era documents after leaving office, describing him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden fails to remember when son Beau died and Trump’s election year in leaked Hur interview audio
Leaked audio shared by Axios from President Joe Biden’s 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur has re-ignited serious questions about his mental sharpness, especially as he struggled to remember when his own son died and when Donald Trump was elected president. In one moment, Biden tries to recall the death of his son, Beau: “My son. Is either been deployed or is dying. And so… What was happening though?” “What’s much about dying? May 30, 2015, he died,” said Biden. “May 2015. I think it’s 2015. I’m not sure the months are, but I think that was it.” BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW Beau Biden passed away from brain cancer on May 30, 2015, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He was 46. In the audio, Biden also mixes up the year of Trump’s 2016 victory: “Trump gets elected in November of 2017. 2016. 2016. So… That’s when we left office, January of 2017. But that’s when Trump gets sworn in manually.” The fumbling recollections are part of a six-hour interview that Hur used to support his conclusion that Biden’s memory was “significantly limited.” The White House kept the audio under wraps at the time as critical moments in Biden’s own life and in recent American history appeared to be completely out of reach for the former president. AXIOS REPORTER PUSHES BACK ON BIDEN’S DENIAL OF MENTAL DECLINE, SAYING WHITE HOUSE INSIDERS DISAGREE The conversation, part of a two-day interview in October 2023, led Hur to describe Biden as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” On Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle Friday night, host Laura Ingraham put it bluntly: “This is the biggest scandal that I remember in recent political history: that this man was allowed to continue as the commander in chief of the world’s greatest superpower.” Panelist Francey Hakes added, “I’m not sure Joe Biden was capable of ordering dinner for himself, much less ordering airstrikes or anything else the commander in chief might have to do.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP As Ingraham said later in the segment, “We still don’t really know who was making the tough calls. It obviously wasn’t the man we heard on that tape.”
Conservatives react to leaked Biden audio on social media: ‘This is painful’
Leaked audio from a 2023 interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur surfaced on Friday, revealing significant memory lapses and cognitive challenges. The audio recordings, obtained by Axios, depict Biden struggling to recall key dates, including the year his son Beau died and the year Donald Trump was elected president. The audio leaks have intensified criticisms over Biden’s mental fitness and prompted reactions from conservative commentators and political figures on social media site X. BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk called for further scrutiny toward Democrats, writing X, “Nobody can listen to it without concluding that every Democrat working with Biden HAS to have known he was completely feeble as a commander in chief.” Fox News contributor Guy Benson called the audio “Painful.” “I couldn’t keep listening. The smears of Hur and the defenses of Biden look even worse,” Benson said. Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones III called for accountability, writing on X, “We need a Biden commission. The entire cabinet and White House staff must be sworn under oath.” Former NYPD inspector Paul Mauro commented on the administration’s reluctance to release the audio, saying, “This is painful…No wonder Biden’s DOJ wouldn’t release it.” HUR TRANSCRIPT CONFIRMS BIDEN MEMORY LAPSES, CONTRADICTS PRESIDENT’S CLAIM ABOUT EXCHANGE OVER SON’S DEATH Fox News contributor and radio host Hugh Hewitt highlighted the national security implications, stating, “Do not blame the president for aging quickly and poorly. But everyone involved in the cover-up put the country at risk because what we knew, all of our country’s enemies knew. They probably knew much of what we, the citizens, didn’t. The 25th failed.” Jake Schneider with the White House Rapid Response team emphasized prior warnings about Biden’s fitness, writing on X, “We tried to tell you. We literally spent years trying to tell you. Please stop acting shocked that Biden was senile, incompetent, and unfit for office.” Ambassador and Chief of Protocol to the U.S. Monica Crowley labeled the situation the “BIGGEST SCANDAL IN U.S. HISTORY.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Brit Hume, Chief Political Analyst for the Fox News Channel reminded everyone, saying “As you read this thread, recall all the crap Biden partisans said about Robert Hur at the time.”
Biden admits keeping classified Afghanistan document ‘for posterity’s sake’ in leaked audio
Former President Joe Biden, in newly leaked audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, admitted he likely kept a classified document related to Afghanistan after he left the vice presidency for “posterity’s sake.” Biden first said he didn’t recall why he had the document when asked about it by Hur, who told him it was found in the library of his lake house. “I don’t know that I knew,” that he had the document, Biden answered, “but it wasn’t something I would have stopped to think about.” Hur noted that Bob Woodward and Jules Witcover both wrote about the document in their books about him, asking if he wanted to hang onto it because it might be the subject of reporting or “history.” BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW “I guess I wanted to hang on to it for posterity’s sake. I mean, this was my position on Afghanistan. I’ve been of the view from a historical standpoint that there are certain points in history, world history, where fundamental things change using technology,” he said. “So, there are a lot of things that I think are fundamentally changing how international societies function, and they relate a lot to technology.” After the 80-year-old continued on that subject for a while, Hur interrupted him to get back to the topic of the document. “No, I’m sorry, that’s why I wanted it,” Biden answered. “It had nothing to with Afghanistan.” One of the former president’s lawyers then interrupted Hur to say, “For the purposes of a clean record,” he wanted to avoid “getting into speculative areas,” mentioning that Biden at first answered the question about the document by saying he didn’t recall why he had it. At that point, Hur answered, “I think we should take a break.” In other sections of the audio, Biden seems confused, asking what year his son, Beau Biden, died, and what year he left the vice presidency. HOUSE JUDICIARY SUES GARLAND FOR BIDEN AUDIO THAT HUR SAYS SHOWS HIM AS ‘ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY’ The audio, related to an investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents while vice president, came out after more than a year of congressional lawmakers demanding its release amid questions about the former president’s memory lapses and mental acuity. The House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General Merrick Garland in July for the audio recordings, stressing the importance of the “verbal and nonverbal context” of Biden’s answers that could be provided by the audio recordings, especially considering Hur opted against charging Biden after the interview, partly because Biden was viewed as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The committee argued at the time that the audio recordings, not merely the transcripts of them, are “the best available evidence of how President Biden presented himself during the interview.” That lawsuit was filed before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race in July after he struggled in a June debate with Trump. Biden had exerted executive privilege over the audio recordings while president. Hur, who released his report to the public in February 2024 after months of investigation, did not recommend criminal charges against Biden for mishandling and retaining classified documents, and he said he would not bring charges against Biden even if he were not in the Oval Office. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other countries, among other records related to national security and foreign policy that Hur said implicated “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.” Fox News Digital has reached out to Biden for comment.
Biden’s autopen use questioned amid released audio from Special Counsel Hur interview
GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman and other Republicans are raising concerns about former President Joe Biden’s cognitive functions were well enough to authorize aides to use an autopen tool to sign important documents on his behalf. On Friday evening, Axios released exclusive audio footage of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, which reveals clues about Biden’s cognitive functioning while president that the interview’s transcript did not elucidate. Biden can be heard slurring his words, muttering and taking long pauses. Meanwhile, Biden also failed to recall the date of his son Beau’s death or the year Trump was first elected. “It questions who was actually making the decisions,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said Friday night on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.” “Clearly, from that interview, which was many, many months prior to the heavy use of the autopen, Joe Biden wasn’t capable of making decisions. He wasn’t coherent.” BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW Earlier Friday, Comer announced a new investigation trying to uncover who gave the orders to use the autopen. According to Comer, among other important things, the autopen tool was used to grant presidential pardons to Biden’s family members. “It does call into question these pardons – the use of autopen, and I think it may actually open the door – I’m not a lawyer – but I’d imagine Trump or his administration may try to make some arguments to federal courts about actions Joe Biden took because now we’ve got more information coming out, and they’re reasonably going to determine, ‘Yeah Joe Biden couldn’t remember anything. He didn’t even know when his son died, or when Trump got elected or when he left office,” political commentator Tim Pool added. ‘TERRIFYING’: BIDEN-HUR AUDIO SHOWCASES FORMER PRESIDENT’S DECLINE CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Who was controlling the autopen? Who was pulling the strings? Who were the unelected bureaucrats making decisions that negatively impacted our country?” asked former Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advisor Link Lauren. “I want names.” Donald Trump has said he does not use autopen to sign legally binding documents like pardons. In March, a White House official confirmed it was the administration’s policy to use Trump’s hand signature on any legally binding documents.