During a House Committee hearing on the FBI’s budget, GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik revealed that there is audio of Biden informing his ghostwriter that he had discovered classified documents.
Despite an investigation by Robert Hur in February which found evidence of Biden knowingly retaining classified information, no charges were filed against him for keeping SCIF-designated documents and sharing them with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
According to Robert Hur, in 2017 Joe Biden repeatedly shared classified information from meetings in the Situation Room with his ghostwriter, reading verbatim on multiple occasions.
Despite this, Biden was not charged with any wrongdoing.
The ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, deleted digital audio files of his conversations with Biden upon learning about Special Counsel Robert Hur’s appointment.
Although technicians were able to recover the deleted recordings, Zwonitzer faced no charges for deleting the files.
The report noted that some portions of the recovered audio files were missing or overwritten with other recordings.
“Zwonitzer stated that at some point he deleted the audio files subfolder from his laptop and external hard drive. No relevant deleted files were recovered from the laptop. Deleted audio files were recovered from a subfolder on the external hard drive labeled “Audio.” Based on the available evidence from the forensic review, we assess that all deleted audio files were recovered from that subfolder. For three of the recovered files, portions of the audio appeared to be missing, and a fourth file appeared to have portions overwritten with a separate recording. These results are possible when forensic tools are used to recover deleted files. For each of these four incomplete or overwritten files, Zwonitzer produced his corresponding transcripts to investigators. These notes summarized the content of the conversations, two of which were with Mr. Biden and two of which were with Beau Biden’s doctor,” the report read.
The federal authorities decided not to press charges against Zwonitzer.
Rep. Elise Stefanik on Thursday revealed the audio recording of Biden telling Mark Zwonitzer that he “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
Until Stefanik’s revelation, it was only known to the public via Hur’s report that Mark Zwonitzer had preserved transcript of Biden telling him there was classified materials ‘downstairs.’
“Perhaps most significantly, Zwonitzer preserved near-verbatim transcripts that contain incriminating information about Mr. Biden, including transcripts of the February 16, 2017 conversation where Mr. Biden said he “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” Preserving these transcripts was inconsistent with a motive aimed at impeding the investigation,” Robert Hur said in his 345-page report reviewed by this reporter.
“Are you aware that there is an audio recording of Joe Biden saying to his ghostwriter in 2017: ‘I just found all the classified documents stuff downstairs’?” Rep. Stefanik said to Chris Wray?
Chris Wray avoided discussing Biden’s alleged crimes and mishandling of classified information.
