Former Special Counsel Robert Hur testified that President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter attempted to destroy evidence following Hur’s appointment to investigate the mishandling of classified information.
On Tuesday, House GOP Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan asked Hur about Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with the president on two memoirs. According to Hur’s February report, President Biden’s “disclosure of classified information from his notebooks to his ghostwriter risked serious damage to America’s national security.”
“What did that ghostwriter do with the information Joe Biden shared with him on his laptop? What did he do after you were named special counsel?” Jordan asked.
Hur clarified that Jordan was referring to audio recordings Zwonitzer recreated.
“If I remember correctly,” Hur said, “he slid those files into his recycle bin on his computer.”
“He tried to destroy the evidence, didn’t he,” Jordan asked.
“Correct,” Hur said.
Special Counsel Hur says Biden’s ghostwriter attempted to destroy evidence soon after the special counsel was appointed to investigate the classified documents scandal pic.twitter.com/IDsR8GG9Iy
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Hur testified before lawmakers a month after the special counsel declined to press charges against the president over the mishandling of classified documents because prosecutors found Biden too senile to face a felony indictment.
“Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” read Hur’s February report.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him,
