The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project on Tuesday vowed to obtain and release the audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. The ghostwriter in June admitted to deleting audio of the interview.
“We see Biden when he’s sleeping. We see when he’s awake. We know if he’s been bad or good. So release the tapes for goodness sake,” Heritage Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell wrote. The Oversight Project replied, “Our team will get the audio tape of Joe Biden’s interview to you. This recording is yours. It belongs to you. You deserve to know.”
Howell included in his post a screengrab of a court filing from December 23, which stated that the “release of the audio recordings would not result in an unwarranted invasion of privacy.”
“President Biden & Zwonitzer have little, if any, privacy interest here,” the court document stated, adding that “there is overwhelming public interest in disclosure of the audio recordings.”
In June it was revealed that during an interview with the FBI the year prior, Zwonitzer “wouldn’t say” how much of his decision to delete the recordings was motivated by the fact that an investigation by special counsel Robert Hur had been launched, but noted that getting rid of audio files after using them was “something I do as a rule anyways.” The Oversight Project released the transcript of the interview.