Biden Caught: 2016 Audio Reveals Classified Docs Admission
There is an incriminating audio recording of Biden telling his ghostwriter, “I just found all the classified documents stuff downstairs.”https://t.co/TCTRqyoEfz
— Vigilant News (@VigilantNews) April 12, 2024
🚨 Elise Stefanik to FBI Director Wray:
“Are you aware that there's an audio recording of Joe Biden saying to his ghostwriter in February of 2016 saying, ‘I just found all the classified stuff downstairs’?” pic.twitter.com/RRV5Dd9o7n
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 11, 2024
Here’s Attorney Robert Hur talking about the recording:
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has declined to provide the House of Representatives with the recordings of Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur
The DOJ only handed over transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden, which led him to conclude that the… pic.twitter.com/eg5ZwysWT3
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) April 8, 2024
USA Today reports:
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice rejected requests from House Republicans for the audio recordings of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden, with department officials balking at GOP lawmakers’ threat to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if they don’t comply.
The Justice Department contended in a letter obtained by USA TODAY that it has already given House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., all the information the GOP needs and that the department has fully cooperated.
Their threat to hold Garland in contempt, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte wrote to Jordan and Comer on Monday, “is difficult to explain in terms of any lack of information” based “the Department’s actual conduct.”
“We are therefore concerned that the Committees are disappointed not because you didn’t receive information, but because you did,” the letter continues. “We urge the Committees to avoid conflict rather than seek it.”
Republicans have been pushing to obtain the audio of the interviews after Hur released a bombshell report earlier this year detailing Biden’s treatment of classified information. Hur ultimately concluded that Biden shouldn’t face criminal charges in part because of insufficient evidence and what his office called the president’s “poor memory.”
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Biden sat for a two-day interview with Hur last year on his handling of the documents following his tenure as vice president.
Hur testified to the House Judiciary Committee in a marathon hearing in March and stood by his report’s findings. The Justice Department noted on Monday that, along with Hur’s testimony, “the Committees have received an extraordinary amount of information—and quickly.”
Jordan and Comer sent a letter to Garland in March saying that the DOJ’s provided redacted transcripts were “insufficient” and requesting the full, unredacted transcripts and audio files of Hur’s interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. The committee chairs gave the department until Monday to abide by their requests.
“If you fail to do so, the Committees will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings,” the two wrote.
The DOJ released the transcript where President Biden openly discusses how he unlawfully retained classified material. Yet, the DOJ will not release the audio recording. The American people deserve to know whether the transcript matches the audio. pic.twitter.com/k9to0HmO3t
— Congressman Kelly Armstrong (@RepArmstrongND) April 11, 2024
Longer video:
BOMBSHELL.🚨
"Are you aware that there is an audio recording of Joe Biden saying to his ghostwriter in 2016: 'I just found all the classified documents stuff downstairs'?"
Watch FBI Director Chris Wray squirm as Rep. Elise Stefanik grills him on the Biden classified docs… pic.twitter.com/MqtLNHyvxp
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 11, 2024
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