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 Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu — while James Biden’s firm Lion Hall got loans from Ukrainian-American businessman John Hynansky.
Presidents and vice presidents are required to preserve documents from their administration for the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
The National Archives had notified the White House Counsel in late June that it planned to release the records on Sept. 23, in deference to law that gives respondents 60 working days to flag executive privilege concerns in requested material.
However, the DOJ informed AFL that an extension had been invoked to delay that release until sometime in November.
“An extension had not been invoked in this case until now,” AFL noted.
The Biden family’s overseas business machinations have long been in conservative crosshairs and the subject of congressional investigations.
Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded guilty last month to charges that he dodged $1.4 million in taxes before that case would go to trial. In June, he was found guilty of felony gun charges in a separate case.
President Biden has claimed that he will not pardon his twice-convicted son.
