US President Joe Biden ordered that White House visitor logsincluding those on the day of the assault on the Capitol, January 6, 2021, be delivered to the legislative commission that investigates these factssaid the Presidency on Wednesday, rejecting allegations by his predecessor Donald Trump.
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Trump claimed that these records were subject to “executive privilege,” a US legal provision that gives the president the right to keep certain documents secret for the good of the country.
That is not the opinion of the current president. Biden “has concluded that applying ‘executive privileges’ is not in the interest of the United States,” White House counsel Dana Remus wrote to the director of the National Archives, in a letter communicated by the US executive.
Remus recalls that the Biden administration “publishes visitor records on its own every month, with limited exceptions” and that the same thing happened during the presidency of Barack Obama.
The parliamentary commission of investigation of the events of January 6, 2021 hopes that these lists will allow it to shed light on the role played by Donald Trump and his entourage when a crowd of supporters of the former president stormed the headquarters of Congress.
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The Republican leader and his associates are locked in a war of attrition with this special House of Representatives committee, made up mainly of Democrats.
Those lawmakers intend to release their findings before next fall’s midterm congressional elections, in which Republicans could regain control of the House and bury their work.
AFP
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