Over two hours of audio recordings involving former President Joe Biden are released, according to reporting from multiple outlets. The tapes include home interviews recorded in 2016 and 2017 with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. In the interviews, Biden discusses the materials and notes he kept at his home, at times referring to information as “classified.” The recordings also depict Biden having difficulty recalling certain details, including names and specific aspects of events discussed during the interviews.
The outlets describe the recordings as newly released and characterize the content as including both references to potentially sensitive government information and moments of apparent memory struggle. The reports present the audio as a direct source of Biden’s statements during the period the interviews were made, without asserting additional new facts beyond what is contained in the recordings’ conversations.
Overall, the releases focus on what Biden says in the interviews and the apparent nature of his recollection at the time, including his references to classified material and difficulties with memory during the interviews.
