Ashley Biden's diary, which contains a passage about "probably not appropriate" showers with her father President Joe Biden, is going viral on social media after it resurfaced over the weekend.

Ashley -- President Biden's daughter with wife Dr. Jill Biden -- became a trending topic on X, formerly Twitter Sunday after Snopes verified the authenticity of handwritten pages from her diary that are circulating on the internet.

The fact-checking site based its assessment on the first daughter's confirmation that her "personal journal can be viewed online" in a letter she sent to a New York judge last month.


In one page from the diary, Ashley wrote about being "hyper-sexualized" at a "young age" and being traumatized by it, according to Snopes.

The social worker recalled "being sexualized" alongside a female friend and "not liking" to visit a certain family's house, as seen in an alleged copy posted by an X user.

Ashley also wrote about taking "showers with my dad" as a young girl, which she acknowledged was "probably not appropriate."

Ashley's diary has been used by conservative figures such as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to attack President Biden.

Pages from Ashley's journal were first published by the right-wing blog The National File in October 2020, during her father's campaign against Donald Trump.

A different conservative website, Project Veritas, first obtained the diary from a Florida woman named Aimee Harris, who later admitted to stealing and selling Ashley's journal.

Project Veritas did not publish excerpts from the diary because it could not verify they belonged to Ashley, but The Intercept reported that one of the conservative outlet's staffers gave the alleged pages to the National File.


In 2022, Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge after stealing Ashley's diary and other belongings from a Florida home and transporting them over state lines, the Associated Press reported.

She admitted to receiving $20,000 of the $40,000 paid to her and a man named Robert Kurlander by Project Veritas for the president's daughter's personal items.

In a letter asking for jail time for Harris, Ashley requested that the Florida woman be "held accountable" after her "personal private journal was stolen and sold for profit."

She wrote that she was "constantly re-traumatized" by the attention her diary drew and that the journal's release has led to her and her loved ones being defamed by "false accusations."

In April, Harris was sentenced to one month in prison and three months of home confinement.

Kurlander also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines but has not yet been sentenced.


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