President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, calling him a “Crooked Politician!!!” after the former president filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department in an attempt to permanently block the public release of audio recordings and transcripts from his private interviews with the ghostwriter who wrote his book.
The recordings, made in 2016 and 2017 during work on Biden’s memoirs, were gathered as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
The files have become a flashpoint because they allegedly reveal Biden discussing sensitive information and displaying signs of cognitive decline, details that Democrats fought hard to keep hidden during the 2024 election cycle.
Trump reposted a Just the News article detailing the lawsuit on Truth Social and added, “A Crooked Politician!!!”
Biden filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to bar the Justice Department from releasing the materials to the House Judiciary Committee and the Heritage Foundation on June 15.
The Heritage Foundation had requested the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after Hur’s report became public.
The Biden DOJ had previously fought the release, claiming the materials were exempt.
Once Trump took office, the DOJ reversed course and notified Biden’s team that it would comply with the request.
Biden’s legal team argues the tapes contain deeply personal conversations tied to his late son, Beau, and should remain private.
A Biden spokesperson, TJ Ducklo, told New York Magazine earlier this month, “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. The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s final report did not recommend charges against Biden for the classified documents but described him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Republicans have long argued the recordings would provide damning evidence of Biden’s diminished capacity while in office, especially since Hur noted Biden read classified information aloud to his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project president Mike Howell told Politico earlier this month that the tapes “will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden’s fitness for office and the fact Biden revealed classified information.”
“The shenanigans aren’t over: At the last possible second, and after every delay tactic possible, the autopen is objecting to the American People receiving transparency,” Howell added.
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