00:20Three words, that's all Trump needed.
00:23While Washington was still processing a surprise legal bombshell from Joe Biden,
00:29Donald Trump took to Truth Social and fired off just three words, a crooked politician.
00:36So what exactly set him off?
00:38And why is Biden suddenly suing his own Justice Department?
00:42Here's what happened.
00:43Joe Biden, the man who left office just months ago,
00:47has filed a federal lawsuit to block the release of audio recordings from a special counsel investigation.
00:53Specifically, recordings made inside Biden's home, personal conversations, deeply private moments,
01:02including reflections on the illness and death of his son, Beau.
01:06Biden's lawyers argued that releasing them would be, their words,
01:10an unwarranted invasion of President Biden's privacy.
01:14They say every American, including a former vice president,
01:18has a right to privacy in conversations held in their own home.
01:22Reasonable argument, but here's the problem.
01:25The timing, explosive.
01:28The lawsuit is specifically aimed at stopping the DOJ from handing these recordings over to the House Judiciary Committee
01:35and the Heritage Foundation, who want them by June 15th.
01:39Why do they want them so badly?
01:41Because of Robert Herr.
01:43His 2024 special counsel report didn't just investigate Biden's handling of classified material.
01:49It described Biden as, quote,
01:52a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory with what he called diminished faculties.
01:59Biden hit back hard at the time.
02:01My memory is fine, he said, publicly, visibly frustrated.
02:06But Heard declined to bring charges, saying there wasn't enough evidence Biden willfully mishandled classified material.
02:14Now, the Heritage Foundation has spent over a year trying to get the actual audio, the raw recordings,
02:20to hear Biden's voice for themselves.
02:23And Trump's Justice Department?
02:25Unlike Biden's DOJ, which fought against releasing them,
02:28they're now willing to hand them over.
02:30Biden's team calls that a deliberate political reversal, and they're probably not wrong.
02:36Which brings us back to those three words.
02:39Trump didn't write a long post, didn't lay out a legal argument, just a crooked politician reposted an article and
02:47kept scrolling.
02:47But the irony here is thick, because Trump was facing his own classified documents prosecution when Heard's report dropped in
02:552024.
02:56And he immediately used the Biden situation as a shield, saying publicly,
03:02if he's not going to be charged, then I should not be charged.
03:05He called his own prosecution selective persecution.
03:09Now, Trump is in the White House, Biden is in the courts, and the same recordings Trump once used as
03:16political ammunition
03:17are now the center of a legal war, with Biden fighting to keep them buried.
03:22Whether you see this as a former president protecting his privacy, or a politician protecting his legacy,
03:28one thing is undeniable.
03:30The Biden chapter is not closed.
03:33The audio exists, the fight to release it is real, and a June 15th deadline is coming fast.
03:40Whatever's on those recordings, both sides clearly think it matters enormously.
04:03The media app now.
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