Biden rejects Trump effort to block January 6 document release
Al Jazeera
Trump sought to assert ‘executive privilege’ to block release of White House documents into deadly Capitol riot.
President Joe Biden has declined a request by his predecessor Donald Trump to prevent White House records of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol from being turned over to congressional investigators.
The former president, who plans to hold a political rally in Iowa on Saturday, is fighting a formal inquiry by the US House of Representatives into the events of January 6, including his own actions and the activities of his aides and political advisers.
That day, Trump gave a fiery speech in Washington, DC, to thousands of his supporters and urged them to march on the Capitol where US legislators were meeting to certify Biden’s election victory. He was later impeached for “incitement of insurrection” after a mob stormed the building.
