The White House shut down former President Joe Biden’s bid to use executive privilege to block the Senate from obtaining documents tied to four separate congressional investigations, directing the National Archives to hand the materials over to Congress.
White House counsel David Warrington sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration stating that Trump “does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege” over the records. The letter was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.
The records span three categories. The first involves a request from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for documents related to what the White House described as the “coverup of former President Biden’s health and cognitive decline.”
“The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again,” Warrington wrote.
The second category covers two Senate Judiciary Committee requests for records related to what Republicans allege were “coordinated efforts by the Biden administration against President Trump and his staff through politically motivated investigations.” Warrington argued that “the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress evidence of a President’s efforts to imprison his opponent.”
The third set of documents surrounds the Biden family’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest, including Biden’s use of private email accounts and his activities on Ukraine policy while serving as vice president while his son, Hunter Biden, held a board position at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Warrington wrote that he was “unaware of a Supreme Court ruling or constitutional text that extends those protections to former President Biden’s efforts to assist his son’s shady business deals.”
This is not the first such denial. In December, Warrington already rejected Biden’s privilege claim over documents tied to his administration’s use of the autopen to sign presidential actions. Last week, a senior Department of Justice official confirmed that the investigation into Biden’s use of the autopen remains ongoing.
