Jordan presses Biden ghostwriter for docs on memoirs after special counsel report

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday wrote to President Joe Biden's ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, asking that he sit for an interview and provide materials related to his work on the president's books.

Special counsel Robert Hur's report on Biden's handling of classified materials became public last week and, though Hur opted against pursuing charges, found evidence that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen."

"Special Counsel Hur’s report unequivocally provides that '[d]uring many of the interviews with his ghostwriter, [President] Biden read from his notebooks nearly verbatim, sometimes for an hour or more at a time,' and 'at least three times[ President] Biden read classified notes from national security meetings to [you] nearly verbatim,'" Jordan wrote to Zwonitzer.

"Based on the information in Special Counsel Hur’s report, President Biden’s assertion that he never shared classified information with you appears to be false," Jordan went on. He then pointed to the report's mention of audio recordings related to Zwonitzer's discussions with Biden about the memoirs Promise Me, Dad and Promises to Keep.

Jordan set a deadline of Feb. 23 for Zwonitzer to provide the Committee with any recordings or documents and to schedule an interview with the panel.

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