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Nasty business continues to pursue the U.S. ex-president. The 83-year-old Democrat is now heading to court.
Former President Joe Biden has sued the US Department of Justice in an effort to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts.
Specifically, former President Joe Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday, calling on a federal judge to still prevent the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his private conversations with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir.
Biden lawyers oppose release of ghostwriter interviews
Former President Joe Biden's lawyers are opposing the release of interviews Biden gave to a ghostwriter. These interviews ended up in the hands of the prosecutor investigating Biden's handling of classified documents. Now these interviews, carried out in 2017, are in danger of being made public, something Joe Biden is looking at stopping.
Biden's legal representatives therefore argue that disclosure of these interviews would constitute an "unwarranted invasion of privacy". They argue that the interviews should remain confidential.
Trump reacts to predecessor
Current President Donald Trump immediately reacted to the developments and lashed out at his predecessor. On his own platform Truth Social, he called Biden "A Crooked (corrupt) Politician!!!"
The prosecutor is investigating possible legal violations in the handling of classified documents.
The interviews are threatened to be released on June 15.
"In President Biden's conversations with Zwonitzer and ultimately in his memoir, he recounted the year of his life that began during the Thanksgiving vacation of 2014," Biden's attorney Amy Jeffress writes in the indictment. "That year was one of the most consequential of President Biden's political life and the most painful of his personal life."
Biden argues that such personal information is exempt from disclosure under FOIA laws, but not everyone agrees. The legal wrangling continues.
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