Trump’s running out of time for that ‘reinstatement’ because executive privilege only applies to the current office holder.
We're feeling prescient: A key sentence from our Betsy Woodruff Swan's piece on the tough tightrope for Biden to walk: "One person familiar with the negotiations between the select committee and White House said to expect Biden’s team to err on the side of disclosure given the gravity of the Jan. 6 attack.”
Biden's stance: President Joe Biden's counsel, Dana Remus, on Friday declined to grant executive privilege to shield an initial batch of Trump-era documents sought by congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 attack. The former president pushed back, asserting broad privilege, and Remus replied in the negative on Wednesday.
"The President maintains his conclusion that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States."
— Dana Remus, Biden's counsel.
Tell her more: Remus' letter alludes to a set of documents the Jan. 6 panel wants that Trump claimed privilege on beyond his broad assertion. She asks the archivist to "provide the pages identified as privileged" by Trump in order to mull that request further.