The House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 14 recently revealed a demand that the ghostwriter of President Joe Biden’s memoir hand over any recordings and notes from his conversations during their collaboration via Epoch Times.
In a letter sent via email, Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Mark Zwonitzer to furnish the committee with any remaining audio recordings and transcripts he has of conversations with President Biden.
Mr. Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter who helped President Biden write “Promise Me, Dad” and “Promises to Keep,” deleted some recordings and materials from his computer once he learned of the probe but was ultimately not charged.
The request comes in the wake of the release of special counsel Robert Hur’s 388-page report into President Biden’s alleged unlawful removal, willful retention, and disclosure of classified documents.
The materials include “notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.” These were used to help Mr. Zwonitzer put together the memoir.
President Biden condemned statements in the report about his poor memory and mental faculties, while also denying parts related to sharing classified information with his ghostwriter.
“I’ve seen the headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of documents. These assertions are not only misleading, they’re just plain wrong,” President Biden said at a press briefing following the release of the report.
“I did not share classified information. I did not share it,” the president said at the time, regarding his collaboration with Mr. Zwonitzer.
