by Kyle Becker at Becker News
Donald Trump will not comply. That is the former president’s message to sweeping demands from the partisan Jan. 6 committee for privileged White House communications with his staff members and media contacts prior to the Jan. 6 events.
“Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of my Administration and the Patriots who worked beside me, but on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our Nation,” Trump said in a statement.
The 45th president also has choice words for the Pelosi-led effort to publicly reveal his presidential and personal communications, which have long been considered legally protected under executive privilege.
“The Leftist ‘select committee’ has further exposed itself as a partisan sham and waste of taxpayer dollars with a request that’s timed to distract Americans from historic and global catastrophes brought on by the failures of Joe Biden and the Democrats,” Trump also said in the statement. “Unfortunately, this partisan exercise is being performed at the expense of long-standing legal principles of privilege.”
“These Democrats only have one tired trick—political theater—and their latest request only reinforces that pathetic reality,” he added.
The partisan House committee’s reiteration of a request comes less than one week after FBI agents confirmed that Donald Trump was not a part of any planning or coordination of the Capitol siege, which was carried out by a small minority of extremists.
These facts are not stopping the House committee from seeking to violate the rights of the executive branch and those who communicated with it. In a letter issued on Wednesday, the committee makes clear the extraordinary information it is seeking:…
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