Biden’s Ghostwriter Facing Contempt Vote
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Joe Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, is facing a contempt of Congress vote.
Zwonitzer refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena.
The House Judiciary Committee is planning to decide later this week whether to hold Mark Zwonitzer, President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter, in contempt of Congress over his refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena.
Zwonitzer was subpoenaed by the committee in March, which sought audio recordings and transcripts of conversation that he had with Biden. Biden reportedly illegally shared classified information with Zwonitzer after he left office as vice president, according to Townhall.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a report on Tuesday, recommending that Zwonitzer be held in contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives.
“In the weeks following the February 5, 2024, release of Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, the Committee on the Judiciary (the ‘Committee’), engaged with Mark Zwonitzer to obtain a limited set of documents and records related to Special Counsel Hur’s report,” the report says. “Zwonitzer served as the ghostwriter for President Joe Biden’s memoirs and Special Counsel Hur’s report revealed that Zwonitzer possessed records that would inform potential legislative reforms.”
Mark Zwonitzer told federal investigators he deleted many recordings with Joe Biden after a special counsel was appointed to investigate Joe Biden.
The ghostwriter of President Biden’s memoir told federal investigators he deleted many recordings of his conversations with Biden after a special counsel was appointed to investigate the president, according to a partial transcript of the interview obtained by Axios.
Writer Mark Zwonitzer said he erased the recordings because he was afraid of being hacked, the transcript says.
Why it matters: Biden’s transcribed conversations with Zwonitzer were among the most damaging evidence in special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.
In his final report, Hur highlighted Biden telling Zwonitzer in February 2017 — just after he left office as vice president — that he “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
Hur wrote that “evidence supports…[Biden] was referring to the same marked classified documents about Afghanistan that FBI agents found in 2022 in his Delaware garage.”
