President Donald Trump will not allow the former president to exert his executive privilege over a slew of documents.
As the Senate continues its investigations into former President Joe Biden, Trump has reportedly rejected his attempt to protect certain documents. Fox News Digital obtained a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from White House counsel David Warrington, which states that the president “does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege” of the materials and orders NARA to turn the documents over to Congress.
“The dispute centers on documents related to investigations into Biden’s health, alleged politically motivated probes into Trump and his allies, and the Biden family’s financial dealings, which Republicans argue go to the heart of Congress’ constitutional authority to conduct oversight,” the outlet reports.
Warrington’s letter is a response to a December 10 notice from NARA indicating that Biden had sought to use executive privilege to protect some documents. He said that “the assertion ‘is not justified’ as to documents identified in two letters Biden sent to NARA on Oct. 22 and Dec. 3,” Fox noted. “The first category of documents involved a request from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for records related to what the letter described as the ‘coverup of former President Biden’s health and cognitive decline.'”
“The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again,” Warrington writes, quoting a previous letter.
The former president also attempted to exert his privilege over two requests regarding “coordinated efforts by the Biden administration against President Trump and his staff through politically motivated investigations” from the Senate Judiciary Committee. The White House countered this request by stating that “the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress evidence of a President’s efforts to imprison his opponent.”
A set of files regarding “Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest” were also covered by the now-rejected plea from the former president.
“Warrington acknowledged that the Supreme Court has recognized executive privilege as protecting presidential decision-making and deliberations but said he was ‘unaware of a Supreme Court ruling or constitutional text that extends those protections to former President Biden’s efforts to assist his son’s shady business deals,’ underscoring a fight about how expansive the scope of executive privilege is in the face of Congress’ oversight demands,” Fox News reported.
“President Trump instructs you to provide to these congressional committees the pages identified as privileged by the former President,” the counsel wrote.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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