Joe Biden (left) and Donald Trump.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty; SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty
As the saga ofDonald Trump’s White House records continues to unravel, PresidentJoe Bidenhas determined that call logs from Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a large group of violent Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol — should be handed over to investigators looking into the deadly riots.
According to the letter, the “records in question” include “entries in visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were processed to enter the White House complex, including on January 6, 2021.” The letter advises the Archives to provide those pages within 15 days.
Trump previously lost a legal challenge to prevent the release of documents to the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, with theSupreme Court rejecting the former president’s requestto block records.
The Biden administration, Remus writes, discloses its own visitor logs on a monthly basis.
The news about the call logs comes shortly after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) confirmed that in January,15 boxes that contained presidential recordswere removed from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the former president resides.
“These records should have been transferred to NARA from the White House at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021,” the agency said in a statement last week, in reference to the 15 boxes of documents.
Recent reports have alleged that Trump has a history of destroying documents. In her forthcoming book, for instance,New York Timesreporter Maggie Haberman writes thatTrump’s White House toiletwas frequently clogged with what appeared to be printed papers.
Some of those taped-up documents were reportedly among the more than 700 pages turned over to lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
source: people.com
