Geo's Private Letter to Joe & Don: “Let It Go, Boys”

Letter to Romans: Biden is suing DOJ to hide his memoir tapes & says it’s not at all like Trump’s resisting Biden era lawfare subpoenas. No. 45-47 says No. 46’s newfound love of privacy shows how “corrupt” he was. Is No. 1 a precedent to decide right from wrong here?

As the Fox News coverage notes, ex-president Biden this week sued the Justice Dept “to block the [public] release of audio recordings & transcripts tied to the special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.” The declining Biden’s lawyers argue their client made the tapes while working in his home with his memoir mouthpiece so his Olympian thoughts would not be lost to posterity. They insist those tapes are exempt from disclosure under the federal public records law. They write in their suit that “Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home.” This is particularly true, they argue, since Justice got the tapes thru a criminal investigation. Predictably, Trump, who’s also been accused of fighting release of some public materials in his possession, immediately wrote on Truth Social: “A Crooked Politician!!!”

While the endless war between Biden & Trump over “classified” records is achieving epic proportions, maybe it’s time to consider what the nation’s first president would say about it. Granted, there was no internet let alone typewriters in Geo’s time, yet most historians would agree he left behind over 20,000 letters to & from him as well as the lion’s share of correspondence written as general, president & politician. Many were written at home, in tents & in pubs all over Virginia. All toll, the volume of info we all can read online in the Geo Washington Papers are unmatched to this day. It’s true, No. 1 near the end of his life, and especially wife Martha after his death, did burn some intimate letters between them & perhaps some other correspondence considered truly private. But, in Joe’s as well as Donald’s case(s), he’d likely say, “Let it go, boys.”

Davd Soul