In recent developments, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been found to have paid legal fees for President Joe Biden amidst ongoing investigations by Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding his possession of classified documents. The report from Hur reveals that the president is “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
The Justice Department (DOJ) disclosed in a court filing on Monday that it does indeed possess transcripts of President Biden’s conversations with biographer Mark Zwonitzer. Initially, the DOJ had denied having these documents during Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified materials following his departure as Vice President in the Obama administration.
DOJ attorneys argued that processing audio files into transcripts related to the president’s conversations with Zwonitzer would be a time-consuming task due to the large volume of information involved. In a statement made last month, DOJ lawyer Cameron Silverberg told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that “We don’t have some transcript that’s been created by the special counsel that we can attest to its accuracy.
However, the situation changed on Monday evening when Silverberg informed Friedrich in a new court filing that Hur’s office did indeed possess transcripts of certain conversations between President Biden and Zwonitzer. Mark Zwonitzer worked with Biden in 2007 and 2017 to compile memoirs, according to Politico.
The DNC’s decision to cover legal expenses for the president highlights the ongoing scrutiny surrounding his possession of classified documents and raises questions about the nature of these discussions with his biographer. As the investigation continues, it remains to be seen what impact these revelations will have on both President Biden and the wider political landscape in the United States.