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Trump slams Biden as a ‘crooked politician’ as former president sues DOJ 36%
By Alanna Durkin Richer48% Owen Scott0%
5/27/2026, 11:19:27 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, In-Group Bias, and False Dilemma, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 25.5% saturation with 119 hits. Analysis detected 758 faulty-reasoning hits from 467 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.8% and a BS Rank of 36% (10,830 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 64.40% of the article peer group.
President Trump has branded his predecessor, Joe Biden, as a “crooked politician” after the latter initiated legal action against the Justice Department.
Biden is seeking to prevent the release of audio recordings and transcripts from interviews he conducted with a ghostwriter.
These materials were originally obtained by the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents.
Trump hit out at the news with a blunt caption on Truth Social, while sharing a report about Biden taking legal action.
“A Crooked Politician!!!”
Trump claimed on Tuesday.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington’s federal court, Biden’s legal team stated that the Justice Department intends to release these files to Congress and the conservative Heritage Foundation.
This move comes despite the department previously arguing that the documents were exempt from disclosure under public records law.
The former Delaware senator’s attorneys contend that such a disclosure would “constitute an unwarranted invasion of President Biden’s privacy”.
They further argued, “Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home.
And when the U.S.
Department of Justice obtains that private information through a criminal investigation, the Department bears a particular responsibility to protect it from disclosure.”
The core of the dispute involves audio recordings and transcripts from interviews Biden held at his home in 2016 and 2017 with Mark Zwonitzer, who collaborated with Biden on his two memoirs.
Special counsel Robert Hur scrutinized these files during his investigation into the president’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president.
Hur’s year-long probe culminated in a 345-page report that questioned Biden’s age and mental competence but ultimately recommended no criminal charges against the then-81-year-old, citing insufficient evidence for a successful prosecution.
This legal battle is distinct from Biden’s ongoing efforts to block the release of audio from his interview with Hur.
In 2024, the House voted to hold then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over that audio, after the White House asserted executive privilege to shield it.
Transcripts of five hours of Biden’s interviews with federal prosecutors were released that same year.
While Biden maintained he took classified information seriously, the transcripts revealed instances in which he was unclear about dates and details, and he admitted he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some sensitive documents he handled.
Republicans have criticized the Justice Department, alleging Biden received preferential treatment and that Trump was unfairly targeted by prosecutors.
Democrats, conversely, have emphasized Biden’s cooperation in the investigation, drawing a stark contrast with the separate criminal case against Trump, who faced accusations of refusing to return classified documents requested by the National Archives from his Florida estate.
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