Jim Jordan subpoenas President Biden's ghostwriter: Report

As oversight into special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into President Joe Biden's classified documents probe continues, new revelations emerged this week.

According to Fox News, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued a subpoena to Biden's ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, the author who wrote Biden’s memoirs.

Jordan's subpoena specifically asks for documents and communications with Biden and his staff regarding his work on "Promise Me, Dad" and "Promises to Keep."

The Ohio Republican requested specific communications, including call logs, emails, and anything related to his communication with the president and his staffers.

🚨 #BREAKING: @Jim_Jordan subpoenas Biden ghostwriter amid classified records investigation pic.twitter.com/VgRfrLVsRc

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) March 22, 2024

Fox News noted:

The subpoena also compels Zwonitzer to turn over all contracts and agreements related to his work, along with audio recordings of interviews and conversations with Joe Biden and transcripts of those conversations and interviews.

At issue are disputed claims that President Biden shared classified information with the ghostwriter.

However, Hur's final report on the investigation noted that 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 the author.

On the cover letter of the congressional subpoena, Jordan made it clear that he means business.

"Despite President Biden’s unequivocal contradiction of these material facts, Special Counsel Hur’s report contains references to ‘audio recordings’ and ‘transcripts’ of your multiple conversations with President Biden ‘related to [your] ghostwriting work of Biden’s memoirs,’" Jordan wrote.

Fox News added:

Jordan noted that FBI agents once contacted Zwonitzer relating to his work, and said he "provided investigators records that included near-verbatim transcripts..and audio recordings."

"Special Counsel Hur also noted that shortly after he began his investigation, you took steps to conceal some of these recordings and transcripts," Jordan wrote.

Social media reacted to Jordan's subpoena, with many expressing doubt that anything will come of it, as has happened in the past when dealing with Biden-related probes.

"Nothing will happen, it is all for show," one X user wrote.

Another X user wrote, "The performance continues. Maybe we could at least make this a Netflix series for entertainment value."