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.”
Meagher previously worked for former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Democratic National Committee, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Meagher helped facilitate Biden and former first lady Jill Biden’s appearance on ABC’s “The View” which is scheduled for Thursday, the anonymous sources told Politico. This episode will notably mark the Biden’s first joint interview since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.
“There are a lot of young and dynamic leaders in the Democratic Party who are focused on the path forward, and it’s better we focus on them, instead of an old man trying to convince himself and America he isn’t responsible for Donald Trump’s reelection,” one anonymous Democratic operative told Politico, in reference to Biden.
Biden told BBC in a broadcast interview that aired on Wednesday that his administration was “so successful on our agenda,” adding that it was a “hard decision” for him to give up his reelection bid in 2024.
While many Democrats raised concerns over Biden’s mental acuity during his time in office after his disastrous June 2024 presidential debate performance, Meagher has continued to defend the former president.
“Yes, Biden was old, but that’s a lot different than an allegation of mental decline that kept him from being able to do the job, which there is no evidence of,” Meagher wrote in an April 27 post to X.
Meagher could not be reached for comment.
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