According to the lawsuit, the conversations entailed Biden recounting the “politically consequential and personally painful year of his life that began on Thanksgiving in 2014.”
“That year, President Biden navigated a range of foreign and domestic policy challenges as Vice President and weighed a run for the Presidency in 2016,” details the filing.
At the same time, Biden’s eldest son, Beau, was fighting brain cancer and ultimately passed away in May 2015 at 46 years old.
“The public and private dimensions of President Biden’s life have always been intertwined, but perhaps never more so than during that difficult year. President Biden and Zwonitzer recorded their conversations for use in writing Promise Me, Dad, and they both understood that they were speaking privately,” the lawsuit states.
On May 12, Biden asked a federal judge to block the release of the materials. In the court filing, the former President’s lawyer accused the DOJ of “forsaking its duty to protect law enforcement files,” arguing that “the law has not changed, but nonetheless, the department has reversed course.”
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