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President Joe Biden refused to exert executive privilege over Trump administration records and information to prevent them being sought by the select committee investing the Jan. 6th Capitol riot.
On Monday, Biden's White House rejected the former president's invocation of executive privilege for a second time on hundreds of additional pages of Trump administration records.
In a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration, Biden counsel Dana Remus stated that Biden has 'determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified' for two tranches of documents sent to the White House for review last month.
'Accordingly, President Biden does not uphold the former president's assertion of privilege,' Remus wrote.
President Joe Biden has again rejected the former president's invocation of executive privilege on hundreds of additional pages
Trump has claimed communications with aides are protected by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that protects the confidentially of some White House communications. Legal experts have said he cannot lawfully use executive privilege because he is now the former president
The letter reveals that the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol 'deferred' its request for nearly 50 pages of documents as a result of an 'accommodation' process with the Biden White House.
That process allows the White House to protect some records that may be privileged, without formally blocking their release.
The fate of the documents approved for release by the White House will now be decided by the courts.
Former President Donald Trump filed suit earlier this month to try to block the archives from releasing records sought by the House select committee.
Trump has claimed that his communications with aides are protected by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that protects the confidentially of some White House communications. But legal experts
