Joe Biden has rejected executive privilege for former President Donald Trump’s White House records which a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack requested.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Friday that Biden has decided that “executive privilege is not warranted,” for this first set of documents.
“It was, in many respects, a unique attack on the foundations of our democracy,” Psaki said, referring to the Jan. 6 insurrection, which delayed the counting of electoral votes at the Capitol showing that Biden won the election. “The president is dedicated to ensuring that something like that could never happen again, which is why the administration is cooperating with ongoing investigations, including the January 6 Select Committee to bring light to what happened.”
The decision applies only to documents provided to the White House on Sept. 8, Politico reported.
Trump has at least 30 days to challenge the decision in court before the National Archives releases them to the Jan. 6 committee, experts told Politico.
Psaki reiterated that such assertions of privilege will be examined on a “case-by-case basis.”
The Jan. 6 committee’s request from August to the National Archives seeks “all documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021,” related to the rally, the march to the Capitol, violence at the Capitol, counting of electoral votes, Trump, some of his allies, family and friends, along with some other members of the Trump administration.
Trump’s attorneys have argued in response that documents related to a sitting president should be shielded from public oversight, CBS News reported.
But White House counsel Dana Remus wrote in a letter to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero obtained by CBS News and Politico, that the Jan. 6 investigation was “unique and extraordinary,” justifying the decision to reject the assertion of executive privilege.
“President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents,” Remus added in the letter.
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“It was, in many respects, a unique attack on the foundations of our democracy,” Excuse me—has there ever been an administration more devoted to attacking our foundation of democracy than the current one? These people are obsessed with the utter destruction of this country—foundation, principles, and all.
“President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States” . . .
Like he is so concerned about the best interests of the United States. What a load of pure BS. He is as disinterested in what is best for the US as the Shah of Iran.
Hell, the current govt, is the BIGGEST threat to our democracy, period. From bringing in millions of illegal invaders, to vote, to ruining the entire economy, to literally coddling rioters, while punishing law abiding citizens…
Well, maybe that means, in the “best interest” of the Country, Biden can resend his own executive privileged so we can truly see behind the curtain and why he and his administration are working so hard to diminish Our Country and its Citizens, not only to Ourselves, but to Our allies and those wishing Our demise.
C’mon, Joe. Show us what a transparent administration you really have, and that you have nothing to hide..
Joe rejects executive privilege for the Trump Whitehouse files hoping to again for their malefactions of media to stir the pot of privileged Democrat party political porridge that feeds our national disunity, yet does not hesitate to evoke executive privilege to attempt to hide Hunter’s laptop of Democrat inspired depravity and disjointed human corruption that might reveal who really is the pathological poster child of political perversion. Jen Psaki, the Biden Carrot Top comedic version of a press secretary so obviously states that with Joe as President, executive privilege will only be invoked, and is only warranted, when a political advantage can be gained, but also NOT invoked when a political advantage can be gained. They, Oh so, claim to want to be uniters, but divide us at every crisis opportunity that is never to be let go to waste, and in so doing lay the groundwork for another January 6th, but next time it won’t end well for they and their cabal of election thieves. Next time it won’t be unarmed women they will have to shoot, but well-armed in truth pissed-off patriots.
I wonder, will he be willing to allow executive privilege if someone on the DEM SIDE was being asked to hand documents over??
One more witch hunt hoping they can topple Trump and prevent him from running in 2024 if he so decides. “We, the people” might have a say on this with more force by our votes and ensuring those votes are properly counted.
God rejected reprobates like Joe Biden many many decades ago.
Now that this precedent has been set the next Republican president can look back and decide about Obama and the Clinton executive privilege claims.
We may as well have some fun.