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Biden Had 'Nothing to Hide' — So He's Spending a Fortune Hiding the Tapes

Former President Joe Biden is now racing to court to block the Trump Department of Justice from publicly releasing 70 hours of audio recordings between Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer — the same tapes that were at the center of the classified documents investigation that Special Counsel Robert Hur decided not to prosecute because, and I'm paraphrasing only slightly, the old man was too senile to convict.

Nothing says "I'm innocent" like lawyering up to suppress the evidence.

Here's the backdrop. Hur's investigation found that Biden read classified notebook passages aloud during his memoir sessions with Zwonitzer. Seventy hours of tape. That's not a slip of the tongue — that's an audiobook of national security violations. But Hur declined to charge Biden, concluding that his memory problems would make it too hard to prove willfulness to a jury. Biden and his team celebrated this as vindication. The rest of us heard "too old and confused to prosecute" and thought maybe that's not the flex they think it is.

Now the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, led by director Mike Howell, filed a FOIA lawsuit — case number 1:24-cv-00645-DLF — to get those recordings released to the public. The Trump DOJ said it is "ready to hand over redacted material." That's the current administration saying, sure, the American people can hear this. Seems reasonable.

Biden's team disagrees. Violently.

A joint status report was filed on May 8, and Biden has until May 12 to formally file his motion to intervene and block the release. If he does intervene, the disclosure gets pushed to at least June 15. Biden's spokesman TJ Ducklo insisted that "Biden cooperated fully with Hur and provided the recordings on the condition they would not become public." Which is a truly breathtaking thing to say out loud. He cooperated — but only if nobody could ever hear what he actually said.

That's not cooperation. That's a plea deal without the plea.

And here's the detail that should make every American furious: Biden waited over a year before asserting any privilege over these tapes. A full year of silence. No objection when Hur had them. No objection during the investigation. No objection when the lawsuit was filed. Only now — when the tapes might actually reach the public — does Biden suddenly discover he has legal rights he'd like to exercise.

The Heritage Foundation and Howell have already signaled they expect to object to the intervention as untimely. Good. Because it is untimely. You don't get to sit on your hands for a year and then sprint to the courthouse when transparency is about to win.

Let's be clear about what's happening. The man who stood behind podiums and told America he had nothing to hide is now spending money, hiring lawyers, and filing emergency motions to make absolutely sure you never hear what's on those tapes. Seventy hours of conversations where he reportedly read classified material out loud to a ghostwriter so he could sell a book.

If those recordings were exculpatory, Biden would be buying ad time to play them on every network. He's not. He's trying to bury them.

As reported by 100 Percent Fed Up and Newsmax, this legal motion dropped this weekend and it tells you everything you need to know about the two-tiered justice system we've been screaming about for years. Trump got raided at Mar-a-Lago. Biden got a pass and a pat on the head. And now the guy who got the pass wants to make sure you never find out why.

The tapes exist. The DOJ is willing to release them. The only person standing in the way is the guy on the tapes. Draw your own conclusions.

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