Appeals Court Shoots Down Biden’s Bid To Hide Recordings Of Memoir Interviews:
“We accordingly conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” the majority wrote.
A federal appellate court on Monday shot down Joe Biden’s bid to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations he had with his memoir ghostwriter prior to becoming president.
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Biden’s emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal to prevent the disclosure of the records and audio of his 2016-2017 discussions with his writing partner Mark Zwonitzer while preparing his 2017 book. The majority was comprised of Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Obama appointee) and Judge Gregory Katsas (Trump appointee), while Judge Florence Pan (Biden appointee) dissented.
“We accordingly conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” the majority wrote.
As noted by Srinivasan and Katsas, the legal dispute over the contested materials can be traced to 2023, when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to probe Biden’s handling of classified materials “during and after” his time as vice president. It was “under an agreement limiting their use to the Special Counsel’s investigation” that the Biden Justice Department acquired the audio recordings of Biden’s discussions with Zwonitzer and “prepared transcripts of the recorded conversations.”
As The Federalist previously reported, Hur concluded in his 2024 report “that no criminal charges are warranted” in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified materials despite his team finding records “related to foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notes ‘implicating sensitive intelligence.’” Federal authorities justified their refusal to charge Biden because the then-president “would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” prosecutors wrote at the time. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
That same year, the Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell, the president of Heritage’s Oversight Project, brought action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain the audio recordings and transcripts. As noted by Srinivasan and Katsas, the Biden DOJ “withheld the bulk of the requested materials, citing several FOIA exemptions.” --->READ MORE HERE
Craziest Part Of New Biden Tapes Is That Media Who Covered For Him Still Have Jobs:
Biden may be out of office, but the so-called journalists who concealed his decline remain employed.
Newly released audio of former President Joe Biden shows him struggling to remember names and dates and losing his train of thought during 2016 and 2017 interviews. But the most damning part about the audio tapes is that the propagandists masquerading as journalists who spent four years concealing his decline are still employed.
The Oversight Project, a government watchdog group, fought for more than two years to get the tapes released. The tapes and transcripts cover Biden’s conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, between 2016 and 2017. These tapes were used by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his investigation into whether Biden mishandled classified information.
Ultimately Hur found “Biden’s memory was significantly limited” during both the interviews with Zwonitzer and Hur himself. Hur also concluded that “Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
The newly released tapes show Biden struggling to recall the names of two of his former economic advisers in April of 2017: “including the two guys who I think were with me, were — oh, God. The guy at Princeton now. Economist. Good guy, was our, our chief economic advisor. Not Kaufman. I’ll think of his name.” Biden later said: “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”
In another instance Biden could not recall the date of a memorial service for a fallen service member: “I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f–ed up,” Biden said.
“So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”
In another instance Biden couldn’t recall what he was going to say.
“What was I going to ask you?” Biden said. “Oh, gosh. I, I can’t think of what it is.”
These recordings don’t just add additional proof of Biden’s cognitive decline; they also prove that the problem was noticeable before Biden reentered the White House in 2021. Biden only continued to decline, and Americans watched it unfold. Yet Democrats and legacy media assured Americans repeatedly that Biden’s cognitive decline, which was on full display during the 2024 debate, was a sudden development rather than the culmination of years of warning signs.
The Biden administration understood how politically damaging his decline was, with Hur having testified that the White House urged him to alter the “references to the president’s poor memory” in his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur also testified that Zwonitzer “attempted to destroy evidence following Hur’s appointment to investigate the mishandling of classified information,” as The Federalist reported.
But White House officials could not have kept up the deception on their own. They needed an accomplice willing to tell Americans not to believe what they could hear and see. That accomplice? The propaganda press.
Days before the infamous debate, The New York Times had a report that read: “How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.” The Times’ editorial page had an essay entitled “I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.” --->READ MORE HERE
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