Former President Joe Biden enlisted a Democratic strategist to help bolster his image as the Trump administration prepares to release Biden’s conversation with a lawyer who had notably said the 46th president has a “poor memory,” Politico reported Thursday.
Biden’s camp hired Chris Meagher, who formerly served as Biden’s deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesman, to help defend the former president’s political track record, multiple anonymous sources told Politico. The report comes as the Trump administration is moving to release the audio of Biden’s October 2023 interview with former special counsel Robert Hur, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur in 2023 to investigate Biden’s handling of certain classified documents. Although the former special counsel found that Biden willfully retained classified national security documents, he chose not to pursue criminal charges against the former president.
Hur claimed in a February 2024 report that Biden appeared to be “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”