Date: May 11th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Soul-stirring topaz indirect expression
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-leaked-diary-accusation/
Did Ashley Biden Accuse Joe Biden of Inappropriate Behavior in a 'Leaked Diary'?
"I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online," Ashley Biden wrote to a district court judge.
Alex KasprakPublished Dec. 7, 2022
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/VF16/WireImage via Getty Images)
Updated April 29, 2024
Claim:
A diary authored by U.S. President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, describes actions taken toward her by her father when she was a child as "probably not appropriate."
Note: On April 29, 2024, Snopes changed the rating of this fact check from "Unproven" to "True" based on testimony provided by Ashley Biden. In an April 8 letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people convicted of stealing her diary, Biden wrote, "I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online."
Previous versions of this fact check noted "strong evidence" that the diary existed, but argued that no source had authenticated the contents of the pages published online, writing that "the authenticity of photographs purported to be from a diary is a separate question from the factual existence of a diary."
Ashley Biden's letter to the court, in Snopes' view, provides that authentication.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5527440&forum_id=2#47653053)