Former President Donald Trump is trying to block investigators of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from accessing phone-call logs, daily presidential diaries, drafts of …
Former President Donald Trump is trying to block investigators of the Jan.6 Capitol riot from accessing phone-call logs, daily presidential diaries, drafts of election speeches, handwritten notes to top aides and other documents, the National Archives revealed in a court filing. The ex-commander-in-chief wants to stop the National Archives from transmitting these records – and thousands more – to a Democrat-led House committee probing the violent attack by Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol in response to him losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. Politico, citing the Saturday federal court filing, first reported that among the records are hundreds of pages from “multiple binders of the former press secretary [Kayleigh McEnany] which is made up almost entirely of talking points and statements related to the 2020 election.
