{"id":55833,"date":"2024-07-25T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55833"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:18:15","slug":"what-an-incredible-coincidence-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55833","title":{"rendered":"What An Incredible Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-reveals-has-biden-transcripts-issue-classified-docs-case-after-initial-denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported that the Justice Department has the transcripts of President Biden&#8217;s interviews with his biographer. Previously the Justice Department has denied that they have these transcripts.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Justice Department revealed late Monday in a court filing that it does in fact have transcripts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden&#8217;s interviews with<\/a> a biographer after initially having denied possessing the documents.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While juggling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to former special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s investigation into Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents following his departure as vice president in the Obama administration, DOJ attorneys said it would be time-consuming to process audio files into transcripts related to the president&#8217;s conversations with biographer Mark Zwonitzer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;We don\u2019t have some transcript that\u2019s been created by the special counsel that we can attest to its accuracy,&#8221; DOJ lawyer Cameron Silverberg told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich last month.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it odd that as soon as President Biden is no longer running for a second term, these transcripts magically appear.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes, reminding us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The findings sparked widespread outrage that Biden was effectively deemed too cognitively impaired to be charged with a crime yet could still serve as president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In May, the White House asserted executive privilege over audio and video recordings related to Hur&#8217;s investigation, including the interviews between Biden and Zwonitzer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;The audio recordings of your interview and Mr. Zwonitzer&#8217;s interview fall within the scope of executive privilege. Production of these recordings to the Committees would raise an unacceptable risk of undermining the Department&#8217;s ability to conduct similar high-profile criminal investigations&#8211;in particular, investigations where the voluntary cooperation of White House officials is exceedingly important,&#8221; Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote to Biden in a letter obtained by Fox News at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the existence of these transcripts was part of the persuasion used to get President Biden to step down from the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Fox News reported that the Justice Department has the transcripts of President Biden&#8217;s interviews with his biographer. Previously the Justice Department has denied that they have these transcripts. The article reports: The Justice Department revealed late Monday in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55833\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1554,13767,8350,6971,17233,269,13372,11559],"class_list":["post-55833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general","tag-attorney-general-merrick-garland","tag-executive-privilege","tag-freedom-of-information-act-foia","tag-https-www-foxnews-com-politics-doj-reveals-has-biden-transcripts-issue-classified-docs-case-after-initial-denial","tag-justice-department","tag-president-biden","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55836,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833\/revisions\/55836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}