On Thursday, a US court approved former President Donald Trump’s request to temporarily stop publishing White House documents that may link him to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The special committee of the House of Representatives investigating the riots has requested these documents, which were ordered by a U.S. district judge for release on Tuesday.
However, the US Court of Appeals for the Washington Circuit said on Thursday that it had approved the so-called administrative injunction and scheduled a debate on November 30. The team of three judges pointed out that the move “should not be interpreted as a ruling on the merits in any way.” On January 6, hundreds of Trump supporters swept Congress and postponed a joint meeting to confirm that Joe Biden won the November 2020 election and will become president.
Biden has approved the release of records kept by the National Archives. The House panel will receive the first batch on Friday. In total, the House of Representatives requested more than 770 pages of documents, including records of senior Trump aides and memos to his press secretary. The records include documents from Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, his former senior adviser Stephen Miller and his former deputy lawyer Patrick Philbin.
Trump also wants to prevent the publication of the White House’s daily diary, which is a record of his activities, travels, briefings, and phone calls. The other batch of documents that Trump does not want Congress to see includes a memo to his former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, handwritten notes on the events of January 6 and his rally in “Save America” On the speech. Before the attack, Trump urged his followers to “fight like hell” in the speech to defend his false claims that the election was stolen.
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