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民主党人曾称，将拜登描述为“记忆力不佳的老年人”是赫尔无端且带有政治动机的做法
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发布于2026年7月28日美国东部时间上午10:42
拜登录音曝光：其记忆力“严重受损”
乔·拜登与回忆录代笔人马克·兹翁齐策的新录音已被公开。其中一段2017年4月24日的录音显示，拜登努力回忆两名经济顾问的名字却未能成功。（图片来源：监督项目）
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特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔2023年针对前总统乔·拜登留存机密文件的调查及后续报告发布后，民主党人急忙为这位第46任总统辩护，驳斥赫尔将拜登描述为“记忆力不佳的老年人”的说法。
左翼围绕拜登精神认知能力的叙事——尤其是在他与唐纳德·特朗普总统竞选连任期间——如今在周一晚间曝光调查录音后土崩瓦解。
2024年初始报告发布时，多名知名民主党人站出来为拜登辩护，许多人都重复了赫尔的报告是“无端指控”的论调。时任副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯是这波辩护声浪中的核心人物，她称这份报告“不准确且不当”。
“报告中对总统神态的描述与事实完全不符，”她当时在华盛顿的一场活动上对记者表示。她还称这份报告“显然带有政治动机，无端生事”。数月后，拜登退出总统竞选，未经党内初选就由副手接任候选人席位。
乔·拜登总统在白宫椭圆形办公室发表全国讲话后暂停片刻，华盛顿，2024年7月24日，周三，此次讲话是关于他退出民主党总统连任竞选的决定。（美联社照片/埃文·武奇，泳池拍摄）
拜登律师团队放弃抵抗，赫尔采访录音或将公开
“所有人很快就会明白，这位共和党特别检察官刻意越界，在报告中加入了与他职责无关且不必要的内容，”纽约州民主党众议员丹·戈德曼当时对美国广播公司发表评论时补充道。
赫尔的任命并无党派偏向。
2023年，赫尔正对拜登留存机密信息一事展开调查。调查的核心是2016年和2017年拜登与《向我承诺，爸爸》回忆录代笔人马克·兹翁齐策的采访录音。
赫尔的报告认定拜登确实留存了机密文件，但起诉他可能不会定罪，因为他可能被视为“一位富有同情心、本意良好但记忆力不佳的老年人”。
“无论是2017年与代笔人的录音采访，还是2023年与我们办公室的面谈，拜登先生的记忆力都严重受损，”报告中写道。
前特别检察官罗伯特·赫尔2024年3月12日在华盛顿国会山雷伯恩众议院办公楼出席众议院司法委员会听证会，短暂休息后重新开始作证。赫尔曾调查乔·拜登总统不当处理机密文件事件，并发布了一份关于拜登记忆力的争议性结论报告。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
拜登阻止公开赫尔采访录音的努力遭遇新的法院挫败
在拜登试图将录音保密的长期法律战期间，一个名为“监督项目”的非营利组织通过公共记录请求获得了这些录音。这些极具破坏性的录音暴露了拜登无法记住基本姓名和日期的问题。
其中一例发生在2017年4月24日，拜登努力回忆两名经济顾问的名字。
“我会想起他的名字的，”当时已是平民、卸任副总统的拜登说道，“我应该把名字写下来，因为我老是忘。”
随后出现了一段长时间的停顿，兹翁齐策提示拜登说的是艾伦·克鲁格的名字。
副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯2024年7月25日在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行的美国教师联合会第88次全国代表大会上发表讲话。（蒙蒂尼克·门罗/盖蒂图片社）
特朗普任命法官推迟公布赫尔调查材料，拜登暂时赢得法庭胜利
在另一段录音中，拜登在回忆参加一名阵亡军人的纪念仪式时，忘记了仪式日期和逝者姓名。
“我想我去了威尔明顿的那场纪念仪式。上面写着[已编辑]12月4日，但我不——我知道这是什么意思。纪念仪式——[已编辑]把名字搞得一团糟，”拜登说道。
“所以上面写着纪念[已编辑]的仪式。我想她的名字不是[已编辑]。要么就是我忘了[已编辑]。”
这些采访全程都贯穿着持续不断的记忆失误。
但在2024年，这并未阻止民主党人指责赫尔是党派活动人士，故意试图抹黑拜登及其与特朗普再战的竞选机会。
前联邦调查局总法律顾问安德鲁·魏斯曼在微软全国广播公司节目中提出抗议。
“这不是司法部的职责……谈论你如今的记忆力——这无关紧要，纯属无端生事，”据报道他说道，“这也正是你不该做的事，即插手可能产生政治影响的天平。”
曾主导“通俄”调查的首席检察官安德鲁·魏斯曼坦言自己对审理特朗普封口费案的法官有“男神情结”。（微软全国广播公司）
拜登总法律顾问发言人伊恩·塞姆斯当时表示，这份报告“无端生事”。
“作为历史上首位未起诉任何人的特别检察官，他会面临批评的压力，可能会说出一些平时不会说的话，”塞姆斯据报道说道。
“年龄问题已经被摆上台面，到了11月，这将是两个人之间的选择，”罗德岛州民主党参议员杰克·里德告诉《政客》杂志，“大约两周前我和国会领导层会面时，没人走出会场说‘哦，我的天，他好像根本不在状态’。”
明尼苏达州民主党参议员蒂娜·史密斯当时刚与拜登进行了一天的行程，她坚称拜登“全程都处于最佳状态，无论是私下还是公开场合”。
罗德岛州民主党参议员杰克·里德在参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会听证会上聆听美国联邦储备委员会主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔作证，该听证会就美联储“半年度货币政策报告”举行，华盛顿，2022年3月3日，国会山。（汤姆·威廉姆斯-泳池拍摄/盖蒂图片社）
2024年晚些时候，在与时任候选人唐纳德·特朗普的辩论表现尴尬后，拜登被拉下总统候选人宝座，其表现暴露了明显的心智衰退问题。
时任副总统哈里斯未经初选直接被推举为民主党总统候选人。哈里斯2020年参选时从未通过初选，于2019年12月3日退选，比首次选举早了数月。
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拜登的一位发言人在给哥伦比亚广播公司的声明中回避了这位前总统的记忆力问题。
“十年前为一本书进行的、涉及已故儿子的谈话属于隐私，且在提交给司法部时明确要求保密，”T·J·达克洛对该媒体表示，“反转立场并将其公开，只是本届政府为政治报复而动用司法部的最新一例。”
“这是错误的，尽管拜登总统不同意今天的判决，但他也尊重法院和独立司法机构在健康民主进程中的重要作用。”
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New audio undercuts Dems who defended Biden, slammed Hur after classified docs report revealed memory loss
2026-07-28T10:42:22-04:00 / Fox News
Democrats said Hur characterizing Biden as an ‘elderly man with a poor memory’ was gratuitous and politically motivated
By Peter D’Abrosca Fox News
Published July 28, 2026 10:42am EDT
Biden tapes released showing memory was ‘significantly limited’
New recordings between Joe Biden and memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer have been released. In one instance, on April 24, 2017, Biden struggled to recall two economic advisers. (Credit: The Oversight Project)
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After special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation and the subsequent report into former President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents, Democrats rushed to defend the 46th president from his characterization that Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
The left-wing’s narrative surrounding Biden’s mental cognition — especially as he was running for re-election against President Donald Trump — is now crumbling after audio tapes from the investigation were revealed Monday night.
Prominent Democrats lined up to defend Biden when the initial report was released in 2024, many using the same line that Hur’s report was “gratuitous.” Then-Vice President Kamala Harris was chief among the chorus of defenders, saying that the report was “inaccurate and inappropriate.”
“The way that the president’s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts,” she told reporters at an event in Washington at the time. She also said the report was “clearly politically motivated, gratuitous.” Months later, Biden dropped out of the presidential race and was replaced on the ticket by his No. 2 without a primary election to decide his replacement.
President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential re-election bid.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
BIDEN’S HUR INTERVIEW TAPES COULD NOW GO PUBLIC AFTER HIS ATTORNEYS WAVE WHITE FLAG
“What everyone will soon realize is that this is a Republican special counsel who completely went out of his way to editorialize, to include material in his report that is unnecessary and irrelevant to what he was tasked with doing,” Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., piled on in comments to ABC at the time.
Hur’s appointment was nonpartisan.
In 2023, Hur was investigating Biden for retaining classified information. At the center of the investigation were audio tapes of Biden from interviews with his “Promise Me, Dad” memoir ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, from 2016 and 2017.
Hur’s report concluded that Biden did, in fact, retain classified documents, but that prosecuting him might not lead to a conviction, because he could be viewed “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 and in his interview with our office in 2023,” the report said.
Former special counsel Robert Hur returns from a short break to resume his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Hur investigated President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and published a final report with contentious conclusions about Biden’s memory.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
BIDEN’S FIGHT TO KEEP HUR INTERVIEW TAPES UNDER WRAPS SUFFERS FRESH COURT BLOW
After a prolonged legal battle during which Biden sought to keep the audio tapes private, a nonprofit called the Oversight Project obtained them via public records requests. The damning tapes reveal Biden’s inability to remember basic names and dates.
In one instance, on April 24, 2017, Biden struggled to recall the names of two economic advisers.
“I’ll think of his name,” said Biden, who at the time was a private citizen and former vice president. “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”
There was then a long pause before Zwonitzer prompted Biden by saying Alan Krueger’s name.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th National Convention on July 25, 2024, in Houston, Texas.(Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)
BIDEN SCORES TEMPORARY COURT VICTORY AS TRUMP-APPOINTED JUDGE DELAYS RELEASE OF HUR INVESTIGATION MATERIALS
In another instance, when trying to recall a memorial he attended for a fallen service member, Biden forgot the date of the service and name of the deceased.
“I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f—ed up,” said Biden.
“So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”
The interviews were marked by consistent lapses in memory.
But in 2024, that didn’t stop Democrats from accusing Hur of being a partisan activist who intentionally tried to tarnish Biden and his chances in a rematch against Trump.
Andrew Weissman, a former general counsel to the FBI, cried foul on MSNBC.
“That is not the role of the Department of Justice … to talk about your memory today — irrelevant, it is gratuitous,” he reportedly said. “And it is also exactly what you’re not supposed to do, which is putting your thumb on the scale that could have political repercussions.”
Andrew Weissman, the top prosecutor from the Russia investigation, confessed he has a “man crush” on the judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial.(MSNBC)
Ian Sams, a spokesperson for Biden’s general counsel, said at the time that the report was “gratuitous.”
“When you are the first special counsel in history not to indict anybody, there is pressure to criticize and to make, you know, statements that maybe in otherwise you wouldn’t make,” Sams reportedly said.
“I think this issue of age is already out there, and when November comes, it’s going to be a choice between two people,” said Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., told POLITICO. “I was with a congressional leadership about two weeks ago, and no one walked out of that meeting, saying, ‘Oh, my God, it was like he wasn’t in charge.’”
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., who at the time had just spent a day traveling with Biden, insisted that he was, “at the very top of his game, all the way through it, both in private and in person.”
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) listens as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Fed’s “Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C.(Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)
Later in 2024, Biden was yanked from the top of the presidential ticket after an embarrassing debate performance against then-candidate Donald Trump, which showcased his apparent mental decline.
Harris, serving as vice president at the time, was then coronated as the party’s presidential nominee despite never winning a primary. When she ran in 2020, Harris never made it to the primaries, dropping out on December 3, 2019, months before the first elections took place.
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A Biden spokesperson ducked the former president’s memory in a statement to CBS.
“President Biden’s conversations for a book a decade ago that discussed his late son are private, and were provided to the Department of Justice on the express condition they stay that way,” TJ Ducklo told the outlet. “Reversing course and making them public is just the latest example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retribution.”
“It’s wrong, and while President Biden disagrees with today’s decision, he also respects the courts and the vital role an independent judiciary plays in a healthy democracy.”
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.