US President Joe Biden speaks during the National Association Of Counties legislative conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Biden today said there's more work to do to tame US inflation, after the latest data showed monthly price growth accelerating in line with economists' forecasts. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – The White House has formally denied Congressional Republicans’ request to hear the audio from President Biden’s special counsel interview over his handling of classified documents.
According to the New York Post, White House counsel Ed Siskel made the announcement in a letter to the congressional leaders saying their request to examine the audio is purely political due to, “the absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” and continued by saying, “Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.”
The audio comes from the now-well-known interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who stated that “Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited” when he struggled to remember dates and information, including when he was Vice President and when his son Beau Biden passed away from a brain tumor back in 2015. Hur concluded in the end that proving that President Biden intentionally mishandled classified documents would’ve been too difficult to prove in court due to the memory issues and decided not to pursue legal action.
House Judiciary Committee member and Wisconsin 7th congressional district representative Tom Tiffany responded to the White House’s decision in an interview with the National Desk, saying: “What is there to hide here? Why not share this with the American people? We’ve seen this consistently in a variety of ways out here in D.C., and this is another example. Let’s give the American people the full information. I think the White House fears seeing President Biden have this tape revealed to the American public and what it will say about President Biden. We see a president who is in decline, and it’s obvious to all Americans, and I think they’re very fearful of what this would look like to the American people.”
In March, a poll by the New York Times/Siena found that 75% of registered voters believe Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president while 42 percent said the same about Donald Trump.
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