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Newly released audio recordings of Joe Biden reveal the former president was aware that material he had stored in his basement was classified, and discussed such materials.
In the audio, which was obtained and released by the Oversight Project after a legal battle, Biden told his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in 2017 that he found documents “downstairs” and acknowledged multiple times that some of the material may be or is “classified.”
“So this was, I early on, um, in ’09 I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden tells Zwonitzer in one portion of the audio.
“Some of this may be classified so be careful with it,” he says at another point. “I’m not sure … It’s not marked classified but —”
“The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified …” Biden also says to Zwonitzer.
Additionally, Biden often sounded uncertain and confused in the audio. In one portion of the conversations, Biden told his ghostwriter, “Alright — what was I going to ask you? Something else … Uh … um. Oh gosh. I can’t think of anything else.”
“Hang on a second,” he says in another conversation. “Um … it’s confusing me.”
The audio reveals that Biden knew he possessed potentially classified material, even though Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute him, concluding that a jury would likely view Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
By contrast, President Donald Trump was aggressively prosecuted and hauled into court for his supposed mishandling of classified docs. That case was dismissed by a judge due to an unconstitutional appointment by Special Counsel Jack Smith and later dropped by the Department of Justice after Trump was elected president in 2024.
The tapes prove that Biden not only lied when he previously claimed that he “did not share classified information” with his ghostwriter, but also that the White House “orchestrated a willful coverup of the facts to the American people when they tried to discredit the Hur report in 2024,” a press release from the Oversight Project said.
“Two and a half years ago, the Oversight Project began a lonely project trying to get access to Biden’s ghostwriter tapes where he disclosed classified information to writer Mark Zwonitzer. To date, Biden has paid zero consequences for betrayal of the country,” Oversight Project Vice President of Litigation Jeff Clark said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
In the audio tapes, Clark said, “Biden clearly gives away secret after secret to someone not authorized to hold such secrets” and did all of that for “personal and family profit to the tune of $8 million.”
“Americans want to see accountability,” Clark added. “Now you know why Biden’s lawyers fought so hard to keep these tapes and transcripts out of the public’s watchful eye.”
The transcript of the conversations can be viewed here, and the full audio can be heard here.
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