When Robert Hur released his report which claimed that Biden was so badly out of it that he didn’t remember which dates he was in office and the year his son died, it was politically damaging.

Since then, Republicans have wanted the original tapes and the Biden administration has fought to block them. Both for obvious political reasons. Since neither side can say the obvious, the excuses have gotten more ridiculous.

But the Justice Department’s latest argument has hit a new level of absurdity. The DOJ has taken to claiming that if the tapes are released, they’ll be used to train AIs to produce deepfakes of Biden’s voice.

Lies. Truth. Who can tell the difference anymore?

“To be sure, other raw material to create a deepfake of President Biden’s voice is already available, but release of the audio recording presents unique risks: if it were public knowledge that the audio recording has been released, it becomes easier for malicious actors to pass off an altered file as the true recording,” it argues.

It’s actually the other way around.

An authentic recording would disprove the fake ones while the lack of a real recording makes it all too easy to pass off fakes.

The Biden administration can’t even keep track of its arguments anymore.

The best way to counter fake records is with real records, but the Biden administration doesn’t want the real ones out there. And that also says everything you need to know about how damaging they would be.