Biden Plans To Try And Stop DOJ From Releasing Ghostwriter Tapes
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Joe Biden does not want the Trump administration to release tapes from his conversations with his ghostwriter.
Biden is planning on intervening to block the Trump administration from releasing 70 hours of audio recordings.
DOJ lawyers told a judge they expect Biden to try to prevent it from happening.
According to Politico, a spokesperson for Biden confirmed it.
Former President Joe Biden intends to intervene in litigation to block the Trump administration’s effort to release 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of interviews he conducted in 2017 with a ghostwriter who worked with Biden on his memoirs, the Justice Department indicated in new court papers.
DOJ lawyers told a federal judge in Washington on Friday that they expected Biden would seek to “prevent any such disclosures” of the audio tapes to Congress and to the conservative Heritage Foundation, which sued last year to access the materials.
Justice Department attorneys advised U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that they set a deadline of Tuesday for Biden to take legal action to block the release and agreed to hold off any disclosure until June 15 if Biden does go to court before this week’s deadline.
A spokesperson for Biden confirmed Sunday that he plans to resist release of the audio to the public or to lawmakers.
The recordings come from Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.
Hur didn’t bring charges against Biden.
The audio reportedly shows Biden reading aloud classified information to the ghostwriter for the book.
The recordings come from former special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents found at a Washington think tank and at his Delaware home after he left the vice presidency.
Hur declined to bring charges, citing Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president and concluding he would not have charged Biden in any event, citing Biden’s cooperation and what Hur described as a poor memory.
The audio set for release captures Biden reading aloud to ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer from notebooks that investigators later determined contained classified information.
Hur’s report quoted Biden telling Zwonitzer he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” language Biden has publicly disputed as evidence he disclosed classified material.
Why is Biden trying to block these tapes from being released?
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