AXIOS (Andrew Pantazi) - Biden to fight DOJ's release of ghostwriter tapes
Former President Biden is preparing to ask a court to stop the Trump administration from releasing his conversations with his ghostwriter, tapes that played a central role in a classified-documents investigation . Why it matters: The tapes go to the heart of Special Counsel Robert Hur's damaging conclusions: that Biden read classified notebook passages aloud to ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer and that the former president's memory lapses would make it harder to prove he acted willfully. For the record: Biden has denied sharing classified information. Driving the news: In a joint status report filed Friday, the Justice Department said it intended to disclose the redacted transcripts and audio recordings to Congress and to the Heritage…
Former President Biden is preparing to ask a court to stop the Trump administration from releasing his conversations with his ghostwriter, tapes that played a central role in a classified-documents investigation . Why it matters: The tapes go to the heart of Special Counsel Robert Hur's damaging conclusions: that Biden read classified notebook passages aloud to ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer and that the former president's memory lapses would make it harder to prove he acted willfully. For the record: Biden has denied sharing classified information. Driving the news: In a joint status report filed Friday, the Justice Department said it intended to disclose the redacted transcripts and audio recordings to Congress and to the Heritage…Open