Donald Trump appeared to respond to President Joe Biden’s decision on Friday not to invoke executive privilege to shield an initial set of records from the former president’s White House that’s being sought by congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Politico obtained a letter from White House counsel Dana Remus to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero.
“After my consultations with the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, 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 any of the Documents,” the letter reads.
Well, that didn’t sit well with the twice-impeached one-term president who released a statement through his spokesperson Liz Harrington to circumvent his Twitter ban.
“I have sent a letter to the U.S. National Archives Records in defense of the office of the Presidency, the Constitution, vital principles of separation of powers, on behalf of our great Nation,” he writes. “The Radical Left Democrats tried the Russian Witch Hunt, they tried the fake impeachments, and now they’re trying to once again use Congress to persecute their political opponents.”
Trump went on to say that “Democrats are drunk on power,” saying that “this dangerous assault on our Constitution and important legal precedent will not work.” The former president called it a “fake investigation,” even though it’s not fake. “This is about using the power of the government to silence “Trump” and our Make America Great Again movement, the greatest such achievement of all time.”
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Trump hinted at a 2024 run and said that President Biden has failed “to address COVID,” even though the former president held super-spreader rallies and danced to YMCA while Americans were dying. Trump ended his statement with, “We will Make America Great Again, Again!”
You can read the complete statement below:
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President Donald J. Trump:
“I have sent a letter to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in defense of the Office of the Presidency, the Constitution, vital principles of separation of powers, and on behalf of our great Nation… pic.twitter.com/U97FXNXQda
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 8, 2021
Twitter users weighed in.
Someone doesn’t want certain details and info to come out🤔
— Calicool63 (@cfld0531) October 8, 2021
Release the documents. This country needs answers far more than the office needs protection on the issue if an attempted coup.
— OldWitch (@colbert_gibson) October 8, 2021
Former is shaking in his boots.
— Jane (@justjane8806) October 8, 2021
Rebuttal:
1. Only one drunk on Power is Trump.
2. Mueller did not exonerate Trump.
3. Majority of Americans agree that Trump had culpability on 06 Jan.
4. Trump cannot exercise executive privilege. Biden has sole executive privilege and he can exercise it.— Tinkerbell (@KathyDu19585540) October 8, 2021
Ok buddy. You don’t run the government. You can’t tell them what to do outside of a judicial proceeding. Are you suing or are you afraid of what the judge will find in an in-camera review?
— Avenging Angel (@FeatheredSerp) October 8, 2021
The actual office of the presidency disagrees. What’s TFG hiding?
— Thai/USA (@TrueThaiNews) October 8, 2021
You can read Trump’s letter to the U.S. National Archives here where he calls the requests an “extremely broad set of documents and records, potentially numbering in the millions,” and he called it “privileged information.” Trump said, “I hereby formally assert executive privilege over these records,” then he lists the documents. And the decision of asserting executive privilege is up to the sitting president, not Donald Trump. Still, he added, “Should the Committee persist in seeking other privileged information, I will take all necessary and appropriate steps to defend the Office of the Presidency.” Good luck with that, buddy.
I don’t think Trump is taking this well. It appears that there is a lot that Trump doesn’t want to be revealed.
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