Biden Sues Trump DOJ Over Audio Recording Release

The saga surrounding Joe Biden’s audio recordings continues, as lawyers for the former president on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the release of conversations that were part of an investigation into classified documents.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to block the Department of Justice from providing to the House Judiciary Committee about 70 hours of audio files and transcripts with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

During an episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” on Wednesday, host Tony Kinnett noted that the recordings allegedly portrayed Biden as “very, very out of it” with regard to his mental state.

One memorable takeaway discussed on the podcast was how Biden could not recall when his son, Beau Biden, died. Special Counsel Robert Hur conducted an investigation but ultimately declined to charge the then-president despite the fact that “Hur’s report said that Biden violated the law,” Kinnett noted.

Biden’s lawyers, as CNN reported, argue in the filing that, “Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home. And when the U.S. Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it from disclosure.”

Kinnett said he found it unusual to attempt to block the release of the materials to a congressional committee.

“What’s bizarre to me here is that the lawsuit specifically states he’s trying to keep the audio files from being released to the House Judiciary Committee. So this isn’t as though the DOJ is going to publish a list of audio files,” Kinnett said.

“The House Judiciary Committee wants these to ascertain whether or not Joe Biden, first of all, [with] his magical super-duper ultra list of a bajillion pardons at the end of his administration that were signed by autopen, if they actually covered the crimes that Joe Biden may have committed, and then Robert Hur elected not to try him.”

Kinnett added that the recordings could play a significant role when it comes to other key Democrats. “There are others that are implicated in the classified documents scandal, as well as things that Joe Biden may have alluded to that didn’t make it to the memoir about Hillary Clinton, his time with Barack Obama, and things that they chose to do that would be under a significant amount of scrutiny legally moving forward,” he continued.

The lawsuit comes after three separate requests were made under the Freedom of Information Act. The former president and his attorneys have argued that what Biden wants to remain sealed is exempt from FOIA.

Congressional Republicans have been fighting to obtain recordings and transcripts of Biden’s interview with Hur. Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, was even held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply, even though the DOJ declined to prosecute.

In response to the new lawsuit, President Donald Trump on Truth Social called Biden “A Crooked Politician!!!” and posted a Fox News column urging the former administration to “let Americans hear the truth for themselves.”

Watch the full “The Tony Kinnett Cast” here.