EXPLOSIVE late-night court filing fomr National Archives details what Trump is trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from obtaining.
They include "daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointments showing White House visitors, activity logs" and records of calls to Trump/Pence.
The records include files drawn from Mark MEADOWS, Stephen MILLER, and hunreds of pages from binders of Kayleigh McAneny.
They also include a draft proclamation marking the deaths of Capitol Police officers. Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.
The first tranche: Meadows, Miller, Philbin, White House logs, call records >>>
The second tranche: McEnany, draft speech to "Save America" march, and "a handwritten note from former Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows’ files listing potential or scheduled briefings and telephone calls
concerning the January 6 certification,"
The third tranche: Talking points on election "irregularities" in Michigan, an email chain from a state official,a document containing "presidential findings" on election integrity.
TRUMP has pressed the National Archives to block 750 of the 1,600 pages identified so far as related to the Jan. 6 investigaiton — it's a far broader attempt by Trump to stifle access than previously known.
The Jan. 6 committee filed its own legal brief tonight too, rejecting Trump's claims of executive privilege as 'weak' and legally unsupported. Upholding them, they say, could impede efforts to prevent a future attack on elections.
The National Archives catalogue of Trump’s Jan. 6-related records is startling, but equally eye-opening is its legal takedown of Trump’s lawsuit. politico.com/news/2021/10/3…
One factor is that presidents have throughout history waived executive privilege on matters of national significance, like Bush post-9/11 — and Trump himself when he decided not to block the Mueller report from coming out. 👀
MORE: Overnight, executive privilege experts filed a persuasive brief arguing that there is literally no scenario in which a former president can override a sitting president’s waiver of privilege.
AND: Trump has no ability to claim attorney-client privilege over advice given to “the office of the president.”
Here’s who filed the brief
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From afar, I would be surprised if Trump's lawyers don't move for a mistrial when Stormy Daniels is off the stand, given the level of detail Daniels went into that even seemed to bother the judge — and even after he warned prosecutors to steer clear.
That's not to say I think he'll *get* a mistrial. I just expect him to ask for it, given the judge's clear frustrations with the scope of Daniels' testimony.
1) Donald Trump could win by losing because in this case losing his most extreme argument means further delay of trial — and for Trump, delay is almost as good as an outright win
2) The conservatives on the court contorted themselves to avoid discussing the specific case in front of them — Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election. They talked about FDR, Nixon and future presidents. But they rarely engaged w the present.
BREAKING: Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 election. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…
There are *seven* additional people charged in this indictment who have not yet been served. So their names remain redacted. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…
There's some wild stuff in this newly unsealed (but heavily redacted) FBI interview from a high-level Trump-world person related to the classified docs investigation.
And while the interview is primarily about the docs investigation, this person apparently witnessed Jeff Clark hand Trump the letter about Georgia electors: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
This person has a very low opinion of "person 24," who apparently tried to overplay a relationship with Trump and pushed the post-hoc claims that Trump had "declassified everything." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
JUST IN: The DC Circuit has upheld the conviction of former Ron/Rand Paul aide Jesse BENTON for orchestrating an illegal payment from a Russian national to the Trump campaign and RNC. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…
Trump had previously pardoned Benton for *other* campaign finance crimes. The story of this particular contribution is really incredible. the Russian, Roman Vasilenko, really wanted to meet Oprah, Stephen Seagal or Jimmy Carter. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…