Joe Biden just claimed executive privilege over the audio recording of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur in order to block it’s release to Congress.

Why did Biden make such a move? Because AG Merrick Garland told him to do it.

Here’s more from NBC News:

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over an audio recording of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, the Republican federal prosecutor who declined to recommend charges against the president over his handling of classified documents.

White House counsel Ed Siskel notified Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan of the decision in a letter on Thursday. The decision came after Attorney General Merrick Garland recommended that Biden assert executive privilege.

“It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the President’s claim of executive privilege cannot be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress,” Justice Department official Carlos Felipe Uriarte wrote in a letter to Jordan, of Ohio, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, of Kentucky, chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Garland wrote in a separate letter to Biden that the audio recordings of his interview “fall within the scope of executive privilege,” and that giving the recordings to Congress “would raise an unacceptable risk of undermining the Department’s ability to conduct similar high-profile criminal investigations — in particular, investigations where the voluntary cooperation of White House officials is exceedingly important.”

Yeah, this isn’t about high-profile criminal investigations. This is all about protecting Joe Biden and his campaign from the truth of that audio, which is that he’s a forgetful elderly man who shouldn’t be president.

Also isn’t funny how Hur is being framed as a ‘Republican’ special counsel? What in the heck does that have to do with anything?? Also he was reporting by a Democrat AG! This is just more political spin from the media to try and help Joe Biden.