As the January 6th select committee continues to march toward whatever end it is that they have in mind, Donald Trump is looking to make sure that he gets a fair shake. After all, a great many observers have already come to the conclusion that Pelosi and her cohorts are using the committee to harm Trump’s chances at the election in 2024.
And so the former President is once again attempting to invoke his right to executive privilege on matters pertaining to conversations and communications in the White House on the date in question.
Once again, Joe Biden is shutting him down, and leaving him belly up for the committee’s wolves.
In a new letter obtained by The Hill, White House counsel Dana Remus wrote that Biden consulted with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and determined that the former president’s privilege assertion “is not justified.”
“President Biden 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 the documents provided to the White House on September 16, 2021, and September 23, 2021,” Remus wrote in a letter to National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday, indicating Trump has made two more such assertions.
“Accordingly, President Biden does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege,” Remus wrote.
The news comes after Congress voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt, after Bannon suggested that he’d need a court to rule on his right to executive privilege before speaking to the committee. This resulted in an ignored subpoena, and now we await the Justice Department’s ruling on how to handle the contempt charge.
