Former President Joe Biden has sued the Department of Justice to prevent the release of private recordings of his discussions with his ghostwriter. File Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Photo
May 27 (UPI) -- Former President Joe Biden filed suit against the Department of Justice Tuesday to block the release of unredacted audio recordings and transcripts of his private conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir.
In 2024, the Heritage Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act to get Biden's comments to Mark Zwonitzer while writing, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.
Under the Biden administration, the Justice Department had withheld the materials. But when Trump took over the presidency, "the Department has reversed that position," the suit said.
In February, Biden's attorney Amy Jeffress wrote, "without any formal explanation for its about-face, the Department notified President Biden of its intention to release the audio recordings and transcripts to the plaintiffs in the FOIA Action."
