Just one day after the announcement of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, his Department of Justice reported that it has located a transcript of a Biden interview that it previously said did not exist.
The DOJ admitted to a federal judge Monday that there are transcripts of Biden's meetings with his biographer, Mark Zwonitzer, for Biden's 2007 and 2017 memoirs, according to a report by Politico.
Trending: Gold Medalist Withdraws from Olympics After Horrifying Video Takes Internet by Storm "In the past few daysthe Department located six electronic files, consisting of a total of 117 pages, that appeared to be verbatim transcripts of a small subset of the Biden-Zwonitzer audio recordings created for the by a court-reporting service," he reported, according to Politico.
The Heritage Foundation was just one of many news outlets and conservative organizations that "Swamped" the DOJ with requests for documentation after a report by special counsel Robert Hur was issued in February, Politico reported.
In his report, Hur explained he had decided against criminally prosecuting Biden for alleged mishandling classified documents because the president came across as "a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." That startling declaration about the U.S. commander in chief launched a congressional investigation in addition to the lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests "Demanding access to various records related to Hur's probe," according to the liberal political news outlet.
The DOJ "Also reversed itself on another matter," Politico reported, explaining that the department had initially "Resisted requests from Heritage to contact Hur and find out what materials he relied upon for key portions of his report." But in the end, the DOJ "Relented" and contacted Hur, who "Acknowledged relying on the Biden-Zwonitzer audio - as well as a portion of Biden's handwritten notes pertaining to a memo about Afghanistan - to compile his report." Some observers had a cynical response to the to the news of the recently discovered transcripts and questioned the timing of the revelation.
"For months, we have been in court seeking records that Hur relied upon in making the statements in his report where he raised concerns about President Biden's mental acuity," the organization said.
https://www.westernjournal.com/doj-suddenly-discovers-key-biden-transcripts-previously-denied/
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