'I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,' Biden tells ghostwriter in recording
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The tapes contain interviews between Biden, now 83, and a ghostwriter working on his 2017 memoir, which was titled Promise Me, Dad.
Adding to this, "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs," Biden is heard saying at one point in the audio, recorded in February 2017, a month after he left the White House.
Meanwhile, A US Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel found in 2024 that Biden had improperly retained records but did not recommend charging him.
Notably, House Republicans and a conservative nonprofit, the Oversight Project, sued for the tapes as part of that probe into Biden's handling of the records.
As per the latest buzz, Responding to the rollout of the tapes, Biden's spokesman TJ Ducklo criticised the direction of the justice department under President Donald Trump - saying the move was "just the latest example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retribution".
In further updates, "It's wrong, and while President Biden disagrees with today's decision, he also respects the courts and the vital role an independent judiciary plays in a healthy democracy," Ducklo added.
On top of that, The audio was recorded during the drafting of the 2017 memoir that Biden penned with co-writer Mark Zwonitzer.
At one point in the more than two hours of tapes rolled out on Monday, Biden tells the ghostwriter: "The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified."
Source: BBC