‘Just Found All the Classified Stuff’: Biden Acknowledges Secret Documents in New Ghostwriter Tapes

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Then–President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., January 19, 2025.

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Newly released audio recordings of Joe Biden and his ghostwriter working on his 2017 memoir confirm that the former president was well aware that he was in possession of classified material at the time, and reveal the true extent of his cognitive decline.

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden can be heard telling ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in February 2017, one month after he left the Obama White House. Biden and Zwonitzer were working on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad.

Kamden Mulder

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Kamden Mulder

Kamden Mulder is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism. She is a graduate of Hillsdale College.

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