Audio obtained exclusively by Axios from former President Joe Biden's October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur reveals memory lapses and prolonged pauses as Biden struggled to recall key dates and events when he left office as vice president.

The audio fed into ongoing Republican efforts to portray Biden as mentally unfit for the presidency at the end of his term and to allege that Democrats hid that fact from the public. “Coverup of the century,” Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles said in a social media post on X. “Reminder: this is the same guy who had the nuclear codes.”