National Archives delays release of Biden VP records with Hunter Biden info until after election

The Department of Justice notified a legal group suing for Joe Biden’s vice presidential records that president’s lawyers claimed an extension, blocking the release of the records until after the election.

America First Legal sued for the records—communications involving Hunter and James Biden about several business dealings—in 2022. The group has struggled to obtain records in a timely fashion, delayed by the Archives and the Biden administration.

So far, the National Archives have released a trickle of documents leading to several findings, including then-Vice President Biden’s use of a private email for official business and Biden’s office’s direct coordination with Hunter Biden’s business on press inquiries.

Now, the invocation of the Presidential Records Act just one month before the upcoming presidential election by Biden and Obama’s lawyers will mean further records will be blocked until after the election.

“We have just been notified by the Biden-Harris DOJ that President Biden’s lawyers and President Obama’s legal representatives have claimed an extension under the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2208(a)(3)(B), delaying the public release of records from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President, including records relating to Hunter Biden and his foreign business dealings, by the National Archives,” America First Legal said in a post to X.

“In other words, Biden, Obama, and NARA are concealing these potentially explosive records until the day after the 2024 election, November 6, 2024,” the group added.

The email messages being blocked by the Archives ”email messages with James Biden …, Lion Hall …, and [Hunter’s firm] Rosemont Seneca,” about “photographs from a White House visit of Vice President Biden with James Biden ... [and] preparation of Vice President and Biden’s final tax forms and financial disclosures for the year 2015.”