Audio from Biden ghostwriter interviews surfaces after court fight ends
What's new: The release includes about three hours of recordings and 117 transcript pages tied to the classified-documents inquiry.
Audio recordings of Joe Biden's 2016 and 2017 interviews with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer were released after Biden dropped his effort to keep them private. The material, disclosed by the Oversight Project of the Heritage Foundation, includes about three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts with redactions. In parts of the tapes, Biden appears to discuss sensitive foreign policy matters and says he found "all the classified stuff downstairs" after leaving office as vice president. Special counsel Robert Hur reviewed the interviews during his classified-documents investigation and decided not to charge Biden, writing in 2024 that prosecutors could not prove willful misconduct beyond a reasonable doubt.