Biden orders Trump White House visitor logs to be turned over to Jan. 6 committee

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

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.

The former president claimed 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.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/16/biden-orders-trump-visitor-logs-turned-over/

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Very short article.

[gab13by13]

1. More proof that the select committee is investigating Trump

and his circle of traitors.

I like how DOJ investigates super secretly so that no one is the wiser.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. I don't think we'll hear much from DOJ till Garland drops the hammer

And I think that reverberation is gonna be felt all over

[gab13by13]

6. Are there parallel investigations going on,

between the select committee and DOJ? All I ever read about are select committee investigations. Should the select committee be doing investigations that could interfere with the DOJ investigation?

[Just_Vote_Dem]

11. Good question

I don't know how that works. I know the idea is to have the committee turn over everything to DOJ at the end. Maybe they are overlapping?

[wnylib]

25. DOJ is riddled with Trump supporters.

The FBI Director is a Federalist. Maybe it's best that the House committee does the investigations and then turns material over to Garland for prosecution.

I wonder if the committee and Garland are communicating as the investigation proceeds.

[Fiendish Thingy]

35. Me too- make Trump and his minions sweat when the indictments are coming. Nt

[Emile]

2. TFG lost again!

[Seinan Sensei]

14. "We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of winning"

Not

[BootinUp]

18. Lol. He's my zero!

[3825-87867]

4. Uh Oh...

Watch for new, bigger deliveries of Depends to Mar-a-Cloggo!

[steventh]

5. Thanks for the good news. Biden again does what's good and necessary.

Biden has far exceeded my expectations. The visitor logs might very well contain more damning information about what tfg and his co-conspirators were up to. Things the 1/6 Committee and the public need to know.

[gab13by13]

7. The select committee is doing a fantastic job,

one day they will show the country all of the crimes that were committed.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

21. With Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger

On this committee, NOTHING is going to get overlooked. Every nook and cranny is being examined.

[L. Coyote]

20. Who was having secret meetings in the WH residence? Should be interesting.

Biden is living up to our expectations. Garland will also, I'm sure.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. I am not accustomed to second-guessing Joe Biden

but if it’d been me, I would have done this on Day One.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The "House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol"

didn't exist on "Day One".

It was officially created July 1, 2021 after House approval on June 30, 2021, almost 6 months after January 20, 2021.



In fact, "Day One" was only 2 weeks after the insurrection and there was the hope that no new insurrection would materialize on that day.

However Biden DID sign 17 Executive Orders on "Day One" -

Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail


President Biden signed executive orders during his first few minutes in the Oval Office on Wednesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

By Aishvarya Kavi
Published Jan. 20, 2021Updated April 22, 2021


WASHINGTON — In 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations signed hours after his inauguration, President Biden moved swiftly on Wednesday to dismantle Trump administration policies his aides said have caused the “greatest damage” to the nation.

Despite an inaugural address that called for unity and compromise, Mr. Biden’s first actions as president are sharply aimed at sweeping aside former President Donald J. Trump’s pandemic response, reversing his environmental agenda, tearing down his anti-immigration policies, bolstering the teetering economic recovery and restoring federal efforts to promote diversity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/biden-executive-orders.html

[mentalsolstice]

29. Where's his damned Sharpie?

Ain’t nothing gonna get done without a Sharpie.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. They would need a bigger wooden box to fit them in

[Comfortably_Numb]

10. I'm giddy with joy when I consider that Donnie Mar a Lardo is having a no good, very bad week.

May they only get worse from now on. Suck it traitor….

[hkp11]

19. agree

[wnylib]

26. And may he have many more.

[Karma13612]

12. All I can say is:

And this is TFG when he got the news:

[Traildogbob]

13. WHO's

The lucky person to sift through the city sewer to retrieve them. There is a whole lot of GQP down there already. The swamps may be dry but the sewers are thick with republicans, and evidence.

[SheltieLover]

16. What a delightful post to wake up to!

Thx!

[calimary]

52. For sure!

[George II]

17. Short but oh so sweet!

[Old Crank]

22. We have 3 like threads about this topic.

[niyad]

23. So?? This is very important news. And if they are not in lbn, there is no limit.

Last edited Wed Feb 16, 2022, 05:36 PM - Edit history (1)

[Old Crank]

44. I posted a story in this section

that was a duplicate, unknowingly, and mine was locked.

I don't know what the difference is.

Important or not they all have the same information.

[niyad]

45. I answered you. The others stories are in General Discussion. There is not an

actual limit on the number of OP's on the same story in GD. In Late Breaking News, there is a limit of one per story.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. This is the "Late Breaking News" forum and not "General Discussion" that permits dupes

There is only one thread permitted per topic in this forum.

[littlemissmartypants]

38. There's an abundance of redundancy at DU.

One only has to scan the Latest Threads page to prove that notion. Sometimes the exact same content is posted three times a day or more. Just in the last few days, in the Video & Multimedia Forum, the exact same videos have been posted back to back and more than once.

Sometimes, the exact post is made by two different people at the same time in the same forum or group. None of these things should come as any great surprise when you consider how fast the posting rate in the General Discussion forum is alone.

There's no "peruse before you post" rule and few think to check for duplicate threads before they post. Only in LBN does the OP get a preposting prompt to look for duplicates before posting. In all other areas of DU, you're on your own.

In my reading on linguistics and communication science, I read somewhere that for a written word or phrase to be ultimately valued it should be repeated a minimum of fourteen times. I believe that's one of the reasons why in commercials there's so much repetition of product names.

So in a population of ageing Boomers, which DU appears to enjoy, I think it's a good thing to have that repetition as our memories may be becoming clouded by the passage of time. It helps us remember. ❤

[niyad]

46. Who are you again?

[littlemissmartypants]

48. Why do you ask? ❤

[niyad]

49. Wellllll, you DID point out that some of us are aging, and need help with our memories.

[littlemissmartypants]

50. Oh, yes! Right! ❤

[calimary]

53. Repetition is more important than ever - and not just for those of us with fuzzy memories.

Repetition DRIVES THE POINT HOME.

[ffr]

24. Step up everything like this.

Flush Dump and anyone even remotely associated with him or rePuticans.

Restore democracy.

[CaptainTruth]

27. Trump started hiding the visitors log in 2017.

Trump administration won't release White House visitor logs

The Trump administration will not voluntarily disclose logs of visitors to the White House complex, it announced Friday, breaking with the practice started under former President Obama.

White House communications director Mike Dubke released a statement citing "the grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328857-trump-administration-wont-release-white-house-visitor-logs

[ificandream]

30. Put the logs out where everyone can see them.

[turbinetree]

31. Reminds me of a song.....maybe him and the family can sit back a enjoy the train ride....

[Texaswitchy]

32. Trump should not have attacked Biden or his family.

Should be interesting reading.

[Harker]

33. A lot of the same people who were shouting, "this is our house"

whilst ransacking The Capitol are going to be outraged that Trumpsky's "personal business" is being revealed.

[ificandream]

36. Trumpty Dumpty wanted to hide everything from public scrutiny

That should have been enough to worry his potential followers. But nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. This was the correct decision by Joe Biden

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

39. Melania has to deal with another tantrum from her man-child husband

[sdfernando]

40. Its the People's House

so the people have a right to know who is visiting.

[niyad]

47. Exactly.

[blue-wave]

41. The KGB coalition in congress must be fuming!

Good. Thank you for the leadership President Biden!!

[monkeyman1]

54. R- congress critter's buying new boxer short's - just crap'd their's !!

[Grasswire2]

42. we know that bad actors slipped in to the WH..

..prior to Jan 6.

What are the chances that the logs are even near to well kept?

[peppertree]

43. +1

And that to the extent they were kept, they didn't end up in the septic tank with all the other orange crap.

[Blue Owl]

51. Suck it Donny you hulking piece of shit

[AngryOldDem]

55. We'll now get to see how often Uber Eats delivered hamburders.

(Per Jimmy Kimmel.)