WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege.
Highlights
- President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan.
- 6, 2021.
- The committee has sought a trove of data from the National Archives, including presidential records that Trump had fought to keep private.
- The records being released to Congress are visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were allowed to enter the White House on the day of the insurrection.
- The White House call logs obtained so far by the committee do not list calls made by Trump as he watched the violence unfold on television on Jan.
- 6, nor do they list White House calls made directly to the president.