Biden rejects Trump effort to withhold records from Jan. 6 committee

President Biden has formally blocked former President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold paperwork from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. 

White Home Counsel Dana Remus in a letter to the Nationwide Archives blocked Trump’s try to withhold paperwork that have been requested by the choose committee investigating the Capitol riot, explaining, “President Biden has decided that an assertion of government privilege shouldn’t be in one of the best pursuits of america, and subsequently shouldn’t be justified as to any of the paperwork,” NBC News reports. 

The White Home counsel cited “distinctive and extraordinary circumstances,” saying that government privilege protections “shouldn’t be used to defend, from Congress or the general public, info that displays a transparent and obvious effort to subvert the Structure itself.” 

White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki previously said that Biden concluded it “wouldn’t be applicable to say government privilege” over such data, on Friday, she reiterated that asserting government privilege over this primary set of paperwork “shouldn’t be warranted.” This resolution applies to a set of paperwork that was beforehand recognized by the Nationwide Archives and shared with Trump’s authorized staff in September, CNN reports. However Psaki stated Friday “this will likely be an ongoing course of,” including, “We’ll consider questions of privilege on a case by case foundation.”