DOJ: Biden Plans to Fight Release of Recordings With Ghostwriter
In 2024, Special Counsel Robert Hur found that Biden “willfully retained classified materials” and read them to his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
Former President Joe Biden plans to fight the DOJ’s release of over 70 hours of recordings with his ghostwriter, the department told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich.
“President Biden cooperated fully with Special Counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public,” confirmed Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo. “The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
In May 2024, Biden asserted executive privilege over all recordings with Special Robert Hur, including those with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
Hur investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents when he departed as vice president in 2012.
The special counsel found that Biden “willfully retained classified materials” and read them to Zwonitzer.
Hur interviewed Biden for five hours in 2023. He didn’t recommend filing charges against Biden, but described him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The comments set off a wave of criticism and concern.
House Republicans subpoenaed the recordings in April. The department said it would not hand them over.
CNN (yes, CNN!), Judicial Watch, and the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project filed FOIA requests for the recordings.
The DOJ set May 12 as the deadline for Biden to take action.
The department won’t release any information until June 15, which gives Biden and the courts time to work out any legal proceedings.
“What’s happening now isn’t about transparency. It’s about politics,” Ducklo added. “If this Administration were genuinely committed to transparency, they would release Volume 2 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s own alleged mishandling of classified documents. That report contains information Americans actually deserve to see.”
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Duck-doo sounds as crooked as the Bidens and Obamas.
The Bidens are such accomplished artists. Hunter puts color by number paints into his mouth and spits on a canvas.
Joe mumbles and drools random thoughts to strange intermediary he calls “captain”.
I actually didn’t think his paintings were that bad. Were they 6 figure good? No. Couple hundred bucks? Maybe. The tell is that the market for his paintings dried up the same time his corporate board gigs did which just happened to be when his dad was no longer President
Special Counsel Hur described Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
elderly: check
poor memory: check
sympathetic: lie
well-meaning: total lie
Corrected sentence:
“Biden is a non-sympathetic, malicious, malevolent, and ill-intentioned elderly man whose memory is so bad he has to read from note cards.”
Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence. He can read?
He was probably just moving his lips like a puppet. One day he tried pulling his own strings and nearly choked to death.
Yes, he can read. If he couldn’t why would they bother giving him note cards? Or running the teleprompter?
Your recognition of sarcastic humor appears on par with the average liberal.
Hyperbole also eludes him.
Sneaky bastard, that hyperbole.
Biden has been a vindictive and malicious man for 50 years. It’s the modus operandi of the midwit who knows he can’t match wit with anyone so just tries to smear and take down his opponants.
“ …and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public.”
If the conversations were for a biography, why would they need to be kept private?
I feel like I should start doing my impersonation of Lt. Caffery questioning Col. Jessup.
Biden is a liar, and a cheat. He’s the second most repugnant man to ever hold the office of president and that’s only because he served under the only other man who’s worse.
They both belong in prison for what is perfectly clear they did. The only problem is proving it in court in front of a jury that would actually convict them.
No, he didn’t say that was the case, he said that Biden’s lawyers would successfully convince a jury of that.
Hur stated that his characterization of Biden was based on direct interactions with and observations of him during the interviews. .
Hur’s report cited specific instances where Biden struggled to recall the years he served as VP, the date of his son’s death, the year Trump was elected, etc, etc.
Biden claimed he did not recognize or remember seeing some of the most sensitive files found in his garage.
The transcript notes that he frequently wasted time with long, unrelated stories—such as a ten-minute anecdote about his first law firm job, or his Corvette—when asked about document storage.
Thus, Hur proved Biden was an elderly man with a poor memory. As for the other, whatever the jury might conclude, the fact is Biden was not, is not and never was well meaning or sympathetic.
No, Paula, the quoted text is not Hur’s characterization of Biden. I don’t care how many news sources falsely claim that he characterized Biden that way; the fact is that he didn’t.
Hur’s words were: “At trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” I don’t know how he could have been any clearer that he was not describing Biden that way, but merely reporting that he presented himself that way at the interview, and would likely do so again to a jury.
He also wrote: “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.” In other words this is not the truth but merely something the jury is likely to willingly believe.
Milhouse is right. Hur’s comments are consistently mischaracterized. There is no way he’d be dumb enough to directly claim Biden was mentally unfit to be President. He said Biden would appear to a jury as an old man who was easily confused, and thus would be unlikely to be convicted, as an excuse for not recommending prosecution.
Exactly. Why take Hur’s word for it? Let Biden’s lawyers convince a jury.
There is a huge difference between releasing recordings made voluntarily between Biden and his writer and releasing documents of the discontinued legal investigation by Jack Smith where there was complete lack of countervailing evidence.
You mean the discontinued illegal investigation by Jack Smith.
If Biden (snort) wants to stop the release of the tapes, then let him testify in public (on TV) under oath as to why he doesn’t want them released. Of course, something tells me there would be much much more than a Nixonian 18-minute gap in those recordings.
He’s forgetting that because of his partisan actions, he does not own Executive Privilege any more.
Well, seems like the perfect time for a president Trump to waive executive privilege for him. After all, turn about is fair play. Besides, it isn’t like dementia Joe can remember what the hell’s on those tapes anyhow.
Absolutely. I had forgotten that novel little Democrat Rule.
Trump’s done it before. He waived executive privilege for Biden’s government physician Kevin O’Connor to force him to testify before the House Committee investigating auto-pen usage.
and again
they framed trump and violated his civil rights with their lawfare mission
but here we are once again with the reality check that is the dems nightmare…..facts that they are communistnazi loving dbags!
Hur was remiss in not letting the public judge for themselves that Biden was mentally compromised. Hur inappropriately decided to protect Biden, believing that a jury would not convict him. It was not up to him to make that decision and Biden benefitted from it.
I suspect Hur’s goal was to signal publicly that — despite the fact that Biden would never be convicted of anything — he knew the truth, we knew the truth, and it was his way of confirming for us between the lines that we were right, regardless.
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