When were the diary entries of Ashley Biden purportedly dated (month and year)?

1. What the reporting actually says about dates

Newsweek’s summary notes The National File published, in November 2020, “a copy of the complete diary of Ashley Blazer Biden… dating from during the 2020 presidential campaign,” linking the circulated diary to late‑2020 publicity even if entries span earlier years ^[1]. Separate reporting and excerpts cited by tabloids and commentators point to individual entries dated July 2019 — for example, conservative commentary and a Daily Mail reprint identify a July 2019 entry discussing “hyper-sexualized” experiences ^[2]. BBC and other mainstream outlets focus on when the diary was left and found (spring/summer 2020) rather than asserting every page’s date ^[3].

2. How “dated” can mean different things in coverage

Journalists use three overlapping senses of “dated”: the calendar dates written on diary pages (e.g., July 2019), the period the entries cover (some accounts say entries are from 2019), and the public timeline when a version of the diary was published or circulated (National File’s November 2020 publication during the 2020 campaign) ^{[2] [1]}. Reporting notes all three without fully reconciling them, which produces the impression of conflicting dates even where entries and publication timing are simply describing different things ^{[1] [2]}.

3. Chain of custody and discovery timelines matter

Multiple outlets report Ashley Biden stored belongings, including a diary, at a Delray Beach property in 2020 and that the items were later taken and sold; the discovery and sale occurred in 2020, which explains why versions surfaced publicly in November 2020 during the presidential campaign ^{[3] [4]}. Project Veritas reportedly paid for material in that period but withheld publication; The National File posted what it said was a “complete” diary in November 2020 ^{[1] [5]}.

4. Authentication and why dates became contentious

Fact-checkers (Snopes) and later reporting describe an evolution in how the diary’s authenticity was treated: early uncertainty about provenance and content gave way, according to Snopes and other outlets, to stronger evidence after Ashley Biden’s court letter and testimony; that does not eliminate ambiguity about which pages are from which month or year beyond the cited examples like July 2019 ^{[6] [5]}. In other words, authentication discussions focused on ownership and whether the pages were hers, not on exhaustively cataloging every page’s handwritten date ^{[6] [5]}.

5. Competing emphases from different outlets and their agendas

Conservative outlets and commentators emphasize dated entries that are politically damaging (e.g., July 2019 passages) and stress the diary’s publication in November 2020 to tie it to election‑era controversies ^{[2] [1]}. Mainstream outlets (BBC, Newsweek) emphasize the criminal case, the diary’s theft, and when it was stored or recovered (spring/summer 2020), presenting a chain‑of‑custody framing rather than foregrounding specific entry dates ^{[3] [1]}. Readers should note these editorial choices reflect different priorities: proving authenticity and legal facts versus amplifying specific dated allegations ^{[3] [2]}.

6. Bottom line and what’s not answered by current reporting

Available sources explicitly mention July 2019 as a date stamped on at least some entries and characterize a circulated copy as “dating from during the 2020 presidential campaign,” with public posting in November 2020 and the diary’s theft/discovery tied to spring/summer 2020 ^{[2] [1] [3]}. Sources do not provide a full, page‑by‑page dating breakdown of the diary, so available reporting does not specify every month and year for all entries — that level of granular documentary evidence is not found in current reporting ^{[1] [3] [6]}.