Biden orders Trump White House visitor logs to be turned over to Jan. 6 committee
President Biden has ordered visitor logs from the White House during President Donald Trump’s tenure to be turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — an order the National Archives said Wednesday that it would carry out by March 3.
The former president claimed that the logs were subject to executive privilege. In a letter Tuesday, a White House lawyer rejected the claim, saying the National Archives should provide the records within 15 days to the House committee.
“The President 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 these records and portions of records,” White House counsel Dana Remus said in the letter.
The letter was first reported by the New York Times. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
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