Has Joe Biden addressed the diary in any 2024 interviews?
Executive summary
Joe Biden discussed the larger family and political context around Ashley Biden’s stolen diary in at least one major 2024 interview (Time’s May 28/June 5 profile/interview), but available sources do not show Biden directly addressing the diary’s salacious details in multiple 2024 TV interviews [1]. Reporting about the diary’s theft, Ashley’s court letter and the sentencing of the thief is documented in contemporaneous outlets including CNBC, BBC, Axios and Snopes [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. What the best-available interviews show: Biden spoke on family and leadership, not on diary minutiae
The deepest 2024 interview in the provided reporting is TIME’s May/June profile and interview, a 35-minute sit-down that focused on Biden’s view of world leadership, the campaign and impressions of his fitness for office; the TIME transcript and reporting note his demeanor and stories in the West Wing but do not quote Biden launching into or reciting the contents of Ashley Biden’s diary [1]. Available sources do not mention Biden reading diary passages in that TIME interview or turning it into a substantive interview topic [1].
2. Media coverage of the diary itself: court filings and criminal sentencing, not presidential interviews
Independent coverage at CNBC and the BBC documents the criminal case around the diary: a woman who stole Ashley Biden’s diary was sentenced and Ashley wrote an emotional letter to the judge asking for prison time for the thief [2] [3]. Axios and Snopes traced the diary’s contents, their publication online in 2020, and later corroboration steps, including Ashley’s court letter that helped fact-checkers authenticate at least parts of the diary [4] [5]. Those reports focus on legal and evidentiary developments rather than on sustained comments from Joe Biden in interviews [2] [3] [4] [5].
3. What Joe Biden did publicly about the theft — according to available reporting
The sources supplied document Ashley Biden’s direct engagement with the court and the prosecution’s framing that the theft was politically motivated; they do not record Biden himself issuing detailed public statements about the diary’s contents in 2024 interviews [2] [3]. If Biden made a public statement about the theft, prosecution or the emotional harm to his daughter, it is not cited in the provided search results — available sources do not mention such a Biden quote [2] [3] [1].
4. How fact-checking and outlets treated the diary claims
Fact-checkers and major outlets distinguished between the existence/authenticity of a diary and the veracity or meaning of particular passages. Snopes revised its assessment after Ashley Biden’s court letter, saying the diary’s authenticity was supported by that filing [5] [6]. Coverage in Axios and other outlets highlighted that the diary included exchanges with her father around 2019, and linked the theft and publication to political exploitation before the 2020 election [4] [5].
5. Competing narratives and implicit agendas in the reporting
Right-leaning outlets initially amplified published diary pages in 2020 and sought to use them politically; prosecutors in the theft case argued the motive was political and sought punishment for the seller [2] [3]. Fact-checkers moved from caution to greater acceptance of the diary’s existence once Ashley authenticated it in court, which shifted some coverage; that sequence shows how legal documents changed media framing [5] [6]. Readers should note the competing agendas: some outlets pursued scandal-driven headlines while court records and fact-checkers emphasized verification and legal context [2] [5] [3].
6. Limitations of the record and what we cannot conclude from these sources
The supplied search results do not include a catalog of every 2024 TV appearance, press conference or local interview Biden gave; therefore we cannot definitively assert he never mentioned the diary in any short on-the-record comment outside major profiles — only that the major TIME interview and the legal reporting in the cited stories do not record him addressing diary content in depth [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. If you want a definitive answer about every 2024 interview line-by-line, additional primary transcripts or a comprehensive media log would be required — not found in current reporting [1] [2].
If you’d like, I can search for and compile direct transcripts or news clips from Biden’s 2024 interviews (network TV, local interviews, debate prepers) to confirm any brief remarks not captured in these sources.