Biden orders access to Trump’s White House visitor logs for Jan 6

Bloomberg

President Joe Biden directed the National Archives to release to Congress Donald Trump’s White House visitor logs for January 6, rejecting his predecessor’s claims that the logs are subject to executive privilege.
“The president 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 these records and portions of records,” White House Counsel Dana Remus wrote in a letter to David Ferriero, the archivist of the United States.
Remus directed Ferriero to turn over the records within 15 days of providing notice to Trump, barring a court order.
“The majority of the entries over which the former president has asserted executive privilege would be publicly released under current policy,” she said.
The panel probing the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has requested logs for White House visitors on that and other days, as well as other Trump-era records.
A spokesman for the committee had no immediate comment. A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Supreme Court last month rejected Trump’s bid to block the release of records to the January 6 panel — a victory for the committee and its Democratic chairman, Bennie Thompson.
In addition to the visitor logs, the investigative committee has requested all photographs, videos and other media, including any digital time stamps, taken or recorded within the White House that day.