Biden administration officials are reportedly plotting how to use a transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur for the president’s political benefit.
The plan contradicts Biden’s promise to “bring transparency and truth back to government.”
According to NBC News, Biden’s top aides are expecting a “lengthy partisan clash over the transcript and possibly the audio recording” of Biden’s five-hour interview with Hur.
To minimize political fallout — especially at a time when the majority of voters and Americans are concerned about Biden’s age and mental acuity — the West Wing staff is even considering a “strategic” release of the transcript to highlight moments in the interview that they believe hide what many people believe is evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline.
More from NBC News:
The internal discussions among Biden aides have focused on how the transcript of his interview might help him versus hurt him politically when it comes to voters’ concerns about his age, the people familiar with the discussions said.
Another consideration is whether it would make strategic sense to release the entire transcript or — to the extent that full disclosure is avoidable — to publicize specific moments in the interview to help push back on questions about Biden’s handling of…
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