Ex-President Donald Trump is running out places and things to hide…
If one remembers?
Donald Trump strongly felt that NO ONE know what he does, even as President which traditionally requires some transparency….
Trump was NOT a politican…
He was a private Businessman that had no one looking over his shoulder’s while he operated his business and we have learned that he had problems telling people, including his accountants the truth…
It isn’t in the law…
But it has been the way things go …..
President Biden has told the National Archives to release the Trump White House visitor logs within two weeks to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Protest ….
We’ll see if Trump does his typical appeals to slow and sometimes drown actions against him….
President Biden is opposing another effort by former President Donald J. Trump to withhold information from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering the National Archives to hand over White House visitor logs the committee is seeking.
In a letter to the National Archives, Mr. Biden’s White House counsel, Dana Remus, said Mr. Biden had rejected Mr. Trump’s claims that the visitor logs were subject to executive privilege and that “in light of the urgency” of the committee’s work, the agency should provide the material to the committee within 15 days.
Mr. Biden had similarly decided last year not to support Mr. Trump’s claim of executive privilege over other batches of White House documents and records sought by the committee. Mr. Trump went to federal court to block the release of those earlier batches but lost.
Citing in part the same reasoning as in the earlier case, Ms. Remus told the National Archives that the documents needed to be disclosed in a timely fashion because “Congress has a compelling need.” She said that “constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.”
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It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will go to court again in an attempt to block or slow the release of the visitor logs…
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Under Mr. Biden and under President Barack Obama, the White House has made its visitor logs public, a move that proponents of government transparency have long said gives the public a greater sense of who has a direct pipeline to the country’s most powerful officials.
But the Trump administration said in April 2017 that such logs should remain secret because of “the grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.” Barring their disclosure made it far harder to determine which donors, lobbyists and activists had access to Mr. Trump and aides….
Jan 19, 2022…..
In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Allows Release of Jan. 6 Files
The House committee investigating the riot received hundreds of pages of documents from the former president’s White House within hours of the ruling.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a request from former President Donald J. Trump to block the release of White House records concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, effectively rejecting Mr. Trump’s claim of executive privilege and clearing the way for the House committee investigating the riot to start receiving the documents hours later.
The court, with only Justice Clarence Thomas noting a dissent, let stand an appeals court ruling that Mr. Trump’s desire to maintain the confidentiality of internal White House communications was outweighed by the need for a full accounting of the attack and the disruption of the certification of the 2020 electoral count….