Rejecting Trump claim, Biden grants access to Jan 6 logs

Rejecting Trump claim, Biden grants access to Jan 6 logs

The US president ordered the National Archives to turn them over within 15 days.

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol on Jan 6 last year. (AP pic)
WASHINGTON:
President Joe Biden has rejected former president Donald Trump’s executive privilege claims and ordered White House visitor logs to be released to the panel investigating the deadly Jan 6, 2021 attack, the New York Times reported today.

Citing a letter to the National Archives, the Times said Biden granted congressional investigators access to the data “in light of the urgency” of their work probing Trump supporters’ violent siege at the US Capitol last year, and ordered the agency to turn over the logs within 15 days.

Representatives for the US National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) could not be immediately reached for comment.

Representatives for Trump, a Republican, also could not be immediately reached.

The White House also could not be immediately reached.

Biden, a Democrat, last year also rejected Trump’s bid to block the US House of Representatives Jan 6 committee from accessing batches of documents from his time at the White House.

Federal courts also rejected Trump’s lawsuit seeking to withhold the records.

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