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‘Keep Forgetting’: Recordings Suggest Biden Memory Lapses Years Ahead of Presidency

Almost four years before he was sworn in as president, Joe Biden showed numerous instances of apparent memory loss, recently released recordings show.

Recordings of Biden’s conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer became available through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Oversight Project, a watchdog group. The conversations took place on several occasions from October 2016 through April 2017.

On Feb. 16, 2017, just weeks after he left office as vice president, Biden discussed his consideration of a 2016 presidential run with Zwonitzer and noted what he would have said. Then he paused as he was seemingly reading.

“No one gets to the point in life I’ve gotten to without — I can’t read my own writing,” Biden said. “Enormous progress, Pres and I have done. I’m not going to stand by and see it undone.”

On April 24, 2017, just months after leaving the vice presidency, Biden struggled to remember the names of two Obama administration economic advisers.

“The guy at Princeton now. Economist. Good guy. Was our, our Chief Economic Advisor. Not Kaufman. I’ll think of his........

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