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Anna Betts

Joe Biden appears to discuss sensitive information on tape with ghostwriter

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President Joe Biden speaks at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, on 19 January 2025. Photograph: Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

Former US president Joe Biden appeared to discuss sensitive information and describe possessing classified documents in audio recordings released on Monday by the Oversight Project, a conservative activist group.

The heavily redacted transcripts and recordings were made in 2016 and 2017, while Biden was working with a ghostwriter on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. No classified material was ever alleged to have appeared in the book.

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