It looks as if the public interest in Joe Biden’s conversation with his ghostwriter supersedes the Biden family’s sincere desire to keep just how compromised the former president was from the public.
The redacted version, of course.
🚨 A federal judge rejected former President Biden’s bid to block the Justice Department from releasing redacted audio recordings and transcripts from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation. pic.twitter.com/Qr404Smlhu
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 19, 2026
Besides the obvious – wanting to establish just how hopelessly pudding-brained the former president was by the stage he was being quizzed by Hur – the Heritage Foundation sued under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get access to tapes of conversations Biden had with the ghostwriter for his biography to further investigate the claims that Biden had mishandled classified information. The recordings POTATUS made with his ghostwriter are all circa 2016-2017, years before his election.
…The dispute over Biden’s discussions stems from a Freedom of Information Act request that the Heritage Foundation filed in March 2024. The group sought records that former special counsel Robert Hur relied on to write specific portions of his report on Biden’s handling of sensitive government records, which included passages referring to the former president’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer in 2016 and 2017.
The interviews were used for Biden’s 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad.”
Hur’s report referenced the former president’s “diminished faculties and faulty memory” shown in Zwonitzer’s recordings, and called Biden’s recorded conversations with his ghostwriter “painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
They might well shed light on the basement campaign strategy, too.
If you’ll remember, Hur’s judgment not to charge Biden for the security lapses was based on his belief that a jury was likely to view Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
A federal judge on Friday rejected an effort by former President Joe Biden to block the Justice Department from turning over hours of nearly decade-old audio conversations to the Heritage Foundation.
Biden’s lawyers immediately launched an injunction pending appeal.
But it could mean a major blow for the former president, who in May sued the DOJ to block the release of the recordings. Heritage contends the audio files contain proof that the former president mishandled classified information, which Biden has emphatically denied.
Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, wrote in her ruling that the former president’s privacy concerns “though substantial,” paled in comparison to the significant public interest in the case and were mitigated by extensive redactions undertaken by the DOJ.
Biden’s lawyers had tried a plaintive ‘how could you weaponize the Justice Department‘ ploy when they filed their suit in May.
HEH
…”It is not ordinary for the Department to abandon its duty to protect law enforcement records containing sensitive personal information, instead offering them up to political operatives,” Biden’s lawyers wrote in a May filing.
Irony so thick you could bounce an elephant off of it.
How much controversy or even comment at this stage will these ten-year-old tapes cause if, within them, we see that Old Joe had six remaining, barely functional brain cells, a whole three years before he moved into the White House with his delightful family and the three functioning cells he had left by then?
Does this revive the autopen debate?
Whatever the outcome, there are few people in politics I despise more than the rapacious, classless, social-climbing DOCTOR Jill Biden. These recordings could well be one more revealing moment about how her blind ambition would eventually help to cost the country dearly.
That old man was lost for years before he hit the White House, and I have no doubt the Bidens are terrified these recordings will help prove it.
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