Justice Department finds transcripts of Biden interview with biographer

The Justice Department told a federal judge on Monday night that it found transcripts of an interview President Joe Biden gave to his biographer Mark Zwonitzer, which played a role in the classified documents investigation.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) previously claimed that it did not have the transcripts, according to Politico, which were requested by the Heritage Foundation in the wake of special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents as vice president. 

Hur determined in his report that Biden did mishandle the documents, but recommended that no legal action needed to be taken against the president.

An attorney for the DOJ,  Cameron Silverberg, did not state when exactly the new discovery took place, but said it occurred in the "past few days" while processing part of the audio recordings of the Biden-Zwonitzer interview.

"The Department located six electronic files, consisting of a total of 117 pages, that appeared to be verbatim transcripts of a small subset of the Biden-Zwonitzer audio recordings created for the [special counsel's office] by a court-reporting service," the court filing reads, according to Newsweek.

Information on what the tapes disclosed was not immediately clear. But the department said it also contacted Hur, despite initial resistance, about whether the interview was part of his investigation into the classified documents case. Hur admitted that he did rely on some of the Biden-Zwonitzer audio and some handwritten notes from Biden on a memo about Afghanistan.

Silverberg said he would discuss whether the Heritage Foundation would also like the handwritten notes processed for potential release. 

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.