National Archives to release batch of Biden docs, including on Hunter, one day after election
A tranche of White House records that likely includes material related to disgraced first son Hunter Biden won’t be released until one day after this year’s presidential election.That’s what the Justice Department told America First Legal, which sued for records from the National Archives and Records Administration back in 2022.Due to an extension sought by attorneys for President Biden, the records won’t be available until at least Nov.
6 — one day after the polls close, according to AFL.“NARA has arbitrarily deferred to former President Obama and current President Biden’s requests to delay disclosure of likely embarrassing records until after the election,” America First Legal vice president Dan Epstein said in a statement.An Archives rep denied that claim, citing statute permitting an extension and telling The Post that “NARA does not grant or approve the extension and cannot deny it.”AFL sued the National Archives in September 2022 for all correspondence between then-Vice President Joe Biden, his brother James and son Hunter as well as records of official trips any of the three men took.In the subsequent legal back-and-forth, the conservative watchdog has uncovered that Joe Biden used multiple pseudonyms in emails and that the office of the vice president traded more than 1,000 emails with Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm.The current batch of material under dispute pertains to messages involving James Biden, Lion Hall and Rosemont Seneca — a since-defunct firm that Hunter co-founded.Also featured in the batch of documents are “photographs from a White House visit of Vice President Biden with James Biden” as well as “preparation of Vice President and Biden’s final tax forms and financial disclosures for the year 2015,” per AFL.The year 2015 has piqued AFL’s interest partly because it was a time in which Hunter was receiving cash from his board position with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings as well as ...