The Heritage Foundation sued in order to get the transcribed interview between Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Joe Biden’s ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
Much of it is redacted as you might have guessed:
🚨 MAJOR COURT WIN
Late last night we forced Garland’s DOJ to cough up the transcript of Special Counsel Hur’s interview with Biden ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer
We are reviewing now but wanted the American People to have it as soon as possible
Link below 👇 pic.twitter.com/XuMpeD8nj7
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Heritage has now gone through the interview and they share below what they’ve learned from the available transcript. There’s nothing earth shattering inside but it is more than clear from the interview that Joe Biden knew exactly what he was doing by keeping classified documents at his home. He was using them for his book:
🧵WHAT WE CAN SEE THROUGH THE REDACTIONS
Here's what we found in the transcript following our big legal win last night.
Biden's ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer admitted he deleted the audio recordings of Biden interviews after Hur was appointed SC. Hur's team still found them. https://t.co/cY3QuFRFfu pic.twitter.com/iKWkLVlSua
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Zwonitzer testified about how President Biden knew he wasn’t supposed to have the classified material in such an unsecure setting and needed to be “careful” in discussing classified material with Zwonitzer, who did not have a security clearance. pic.twitter.com/6bKAXywjc8
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Zwonitzer told investigators that President Biden took him into his garage at his Wilmington home to see the President's Corvette.
This is the same garage where President Biden improperly stored classified documents. pic.twitter.com/47sc9qcJZh
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Hur didn’t even bother showing up to the Zwonitzer interview. This is odd considering the high profile nature of the interview. pic.twitter.com/mPlufE5etH
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Zwonitzer told investigators that Biden read frequently from his personal diary and journals in their interviews for the memoir. President Biden wouldn’t let Zwonitzer make copies of the documents. pic.twitter.com/XciaCekviq
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But President Biden mentioned he “needed to be careful” because he was reading from documents with classified markings. At one point, President Biden told Zwonitzer he had just found a classified document downstairs in his home. pic.twitter.com/KEH0ZF8k70
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Zwonitzer confirmed he never possessed a security clearance and DOJ curiously redacted his answer to the question of whether he has ever dealt with classified material. pic.twitter.com/jzpesLDXIi
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