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06-14-2024, 07:23 PM
The ghostwriter of President Biden's memoir told federal investigators he deleted many recordings of his conversations with Biden after a special counsel was appointed to investigate the president, according to a partial transcript of the interview obtained by Axios.
Writer Mark Zwonitzer said he erased the recordings because he was afraid of being hacked, the transcript says.
Why it matters: Biden's transcribed conversations with Zwonitzer were among the most damaging evidence in special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents.
In his final report, Hur highlighted Biden telling Zwonitzer in February 2017 — just after he left office as vice president — that he "just found all the classified stuff downstairs."
Hur wrote that "evidence supports...[Biden] was referring to the same marked classified documents about Afghanistan that FBI agents found in 2022 in his Delaware garage."
Driving the news: In a July 2023 interview, Zwonitzer told investigators that he had tried to delete the audio of all his conversations with Biden months earlier, according to the transcript which Bloomberg News first reported.
Zwonitzer said he erased files in the weeks after Hur was appointed in early January 2023.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/biden-ghostwriter-deleted-recordings-special-counsel-documents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top
Writer Mark Zwonitzer said he erased the recordings because he was afraid of being hacked, the transcript says.
Why it matters: Biden's transcribed conversations with Zwonitzer were among the most damaging evidence in special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents.
In his final report, Hur highlighted Biden telling Zwonitzer in February 2017 — just after he left office as vice president — that he "just found all the classified stuff downstairs."
Hur wrote that "evidence supports...[Biden] was referring to the same marked classified documents about Afghanistan that FBI agents found in 2022 in his Delaware garage."
Driving the news: In a July 2023 interview, Zwonitzer told investigators that he had tried to delete the audio of all his conversations with Biden months earlier, according to the transcript which Bloomberg News first reported.
Zwonitzer said he erased files in the weeks after Hur was appointed in early January 2023.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/biden-ghostwriter-deleted-recordings-special-counsel-documents?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top