The right-wing group first sued to obtain the tapes after Special Counsel Robert Hur decided in 2024 not to charge Biden for how he handled classified information. Biden cooperated with Hur’s inquiry and told the special prosecutor during his presidency that he did not intentionally mishandle any classified material.

Hur, who obtained the tapes as part of his inquiry, said in announcing his decision that he believed a jury would find Biden a sympathetic figure because of his age and what Hur described as a “poor memory” — a statement that became a flashpoint in public debate about Biden's age and fitness for the presidency.

Biden was 74 when the interviews began. He was 81 and seeking reelection when Hur released his report in early 2024, though Biden later ended his campaign for a second term after a halting debate performance against Republican Donald Trump.

The tapes contain instances of Biden being unable to recall some dates and details of topics he was discussing with Zwonitzer. Biden also showed a command of many details, recalling meetings and details of conversations referenced in the notes he shared.

At the Oversight Project, Vice President of Litigation Jeff Clark insisted the tapes prove Biden's decline.

“The tapes have always belonged to the American People, the Oversight Project just delivered them to their rightful owner,” Clark said in a statement. “The knowledge of his deterioration was well-established.”

A Biden spokesman blasted the release as politically motivated.

“President Biden’s conversations for a book a decade ago that discussed his late son are private, and were provided to the Department of Justice on the express condition they stay that way,” said TJ Ducklo. “Reversing course and making them public is just the latest example of this Administration weaponizing the DOJ for political retribution.”

Biden initially sued to stop the Department of Justice from releasing the material, claiming the conversations were private. But he dropped his suit after a divided panel of appeals court judges rejected his bid. Biden could have petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene or asked for a rehearing by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel from the circuit court found a “substantial” public interest in disclosing the material.

>>1526126
Obama declassified them in his head.

>>1526126
>The tapes contain instances of Biden being unable to recall some dates and details of topics he was discussing with Zwonitzer. Biden also showed a command of many details, recalling meetings and details of conversations referenced in the notes he shared.

Biden was ols. Big news.
The current president thinks he's at war with "The Islamic Republic of Japan".

>>1526126
>disclosed by a conservative activist group

>>1526126
>an arm of the Heritage Foundation
At this point, it's more likely it's just AI slop to distract from all the crimes and anti-American fascist activities the Heritage Foundation.

>>1526166
>Everyone I don't like is a criminal.
Pretty soon we'll be forced to put liggerals down.
When it happens we'll make sure to burn all their propaganda and write correct versions of history so it doesn't happen again.

>>1526170
i'm glad nonsense like this is enshrined on the internet forever so the hague or the icc can cite it

>>1526171
I'm glad that I get to study propaganda's effects on mental health in such an interesting time.

>>1526126
I don't care. Once again, the president is the authority on classification and all powers related to it are part of the executive branch's power.
As the executive, leaking that Democrats cheated to get him elected isn't illegal.

>>1526166
No, its just literally the documents he already admitted to having and returned.
This was already litigated, MIGA's just reheating leftovers because everything else is so fucking bleak

>>1526126
Trump literally stole and sold state secrets, up to and including nuclear data, by the box load. Biden mentioning a few things to some biographer ain't fucking shit in comparison.

>>1526126
>7 pages of transcripts — with many redactions — were released by the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation
Into the trash it goes!

>>1526144
They could have shortened it down to "a reliable source" at this point.

>>1526126
The clip of him plainly admitting to white genocide was more damning and that was long before he even ran for president. There's no basis of credibility in America's leadership positions anymore because the public is too subdued and degenerated to see it for what it is, as instigated by constant shill tactics used throughout the media like the various faggots that spam the same playbook on this board and /pol/ all day, every day.

We're still stuck in a timeline of make-believe bullshittery where people think they're supposed to accept having been ruled by an industry-plant nigger named, of all things, Barack fucking Obama for almost a decade. Getting serious about America's mounting issues is being constantly pushed out of reach by stupid subversive nonsense 24/7. The nigger begrudgingly left office and then we were presented a false choice between two Epstein patsies in 2016. Then was the rigging for Biden in broad daylight. Democracy has gone from being on-rails to cutscenes-only at this point.

Fake ass news man

>>1526186
I agree. NBC is fake news.