DOJ Suddenly Makes Massive Biden Discovery

Just one day after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, his Department of Justice revealed that it had found a transcript of a Biden interview that it previously claimed did not exist.

The DOJ admitted to a federal judge on Monday that there are indeed transcripts of Biden’s meetings with his biographer, Mark Zwonitzer, for Biden’s 2007 and 2017 memoirs, according to Politico.

Previously, the department had informed U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that transcribing roughly 70 hours of audio files and screening them for classified content would be too time-consuming.

“We don’t have some transcript that’s been created by the special counsel that we can attest to its accuracy,” Justice Department lawyer Cameron Silverberg said during a June 18 hearing regarding a suit brought by the conservative organization, the Heritage Foundation, according to the report.

However, early this week, Silverberg informed the court of a new development.

“In the past few days…the 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 [special counsel’s office] by a court-reporting service,” he reported, according to Politico.

The Heritage Foundation was among many news outlets and conservative organizations that "swamped" the DOJ with requests for documentation following a report by special counsel Robert Hur in February, Politico reported.

In his report, Hur stated that he had decided against criminally prosecuting Biden for alleged mishandling of classified documents because the president seemed like “a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

This surprising statement about the U.S. commander in chief triggered a congressional investigation, alongside 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.”

Eventually, 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 reacted cynically to the news of the recently discovered transcripts and questioned the timing of the revelation.

“Now that Biden’s not running, it’s AMAZING what info DOJ can cough up,” GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri commented in a post on the social media platform X.

The Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, was equally skeptical.

“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.

“For months, DOJ has been adamant to us and the judge that they didn’t need to talk to Hur and invented a search protocol to avoid accountability and transparency,” the organization continued in the second of a thread of four posts on the matter.

The posts continued: “Now, less than 12 hours before a hearing and after we briefed this issue, DOJ makes this ‘discovery.’

“We are pleased we forced DOJ to finally come clean and will continue to press our case in court to obtain these records for the American people.

“Make no mistake, we forced this issue. The Biden tapes are coming out. When senior Democrats on the Hill realized this they began separating publicly from @JoeBiden.”