Former President Joe Biden is preparing to fight the Trump administration's effort to release roughly 70 hours of audio recordings from private conversations with his ghostwriter, opening a new front in the long-running legal and political battle over the classified documents investigation that shadowed the final stretch of his presidency.
Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge in Washington that they expect Biden to try to "prevent any such disclosures" of the recordings, according to court papers cited by Politico. The audio includes interviews Biden conducted in 2017 with writer Mark Zwonitzer while working on his memoir 'Promise Me, Dad,' a book about his deceased son Beau Biden. The material was later reviewed by special counsel Robert Hur during his investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents.
