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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,225 posts)
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:56 PM May 2022

National Archives poised to release more Trump documents to January 6 committee

Source: CNN

The National Archives is poised to turn over yet another batch of documents to the House's investigation into the January 6 insurrection, according to a new set of letters released by the agency on Wednesday.

The document release contains up to 23,000 emails and attachments and is the eighth collection for the Archives to process for the House select committee's investigation. Former President Donald Trump, in a letter to the Archives in March, said he wanted to potentially claim executive privilege related to some of the documents in the collection.

But the Archives said on Wednesday they would not hold back records Trump wants to keep secret from the House investigators.

This set of documents -- following of hundreds of others the House select committee has gathered in its investigation -- will arrive as Capitol Hill prepares for the beginning of public hearings about Trump and January 6. The Biden administration has repeatedly supported releasing January 6-related records around the presidency so there is a "full accounting" of the insurrection, according to the White House counsel's office -- a potentially pivotal position for the investigation and for future administrations.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/national-archives-trump-documents/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2022-05-11T23%3A29%3A01&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

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National Archives poised to release more Trump documents to January 6 committee (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 OP
Whoo hoo Just_Vote_Dem May 2022 #1
Doesn't leave a lot of time to incorporate babylonsister May 2022 #2
I'm sure DOJ already has the documents gab13by13 May 2022 #3
Shouldn't we be hearing about some of these past releases? JohnnyRingo May 2022 #4
Mueller was given a narrow scope to investigate, gab13by13 May 2022 #5
"prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice and for "individual one." Justice matters. May 2022 #6

babylonsister

(171,065 posts)
2. Doesn't leave a lot of time to incorporate
Wed May 11, 2022, 09:13 PM
May 2022

into the ongoing investigation, but it's nice to know the good guys have the goods.

JohnnyRingo

(18,628 posts)
4. Shouldn't we be hearing about some of these past releases?
Thu May 12, 2022, 03:05 AM
May 2022

I know it's part of an overall investigation, but I've been leery since the Mueller report revealed nothing
I mean, tens of thousands items of communique and we know nothing about what was in them.

gab13by13

(21,337 posts)
5. Mueller was given a narrow scope to investigate,
Thu May 12, 2022, 06:32 AM
May 2022

Mueller didn't follow the money because he believed SDNY was on that.

Mueller indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and 3 companies.

Mueller laid the ground work to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice and for "individual one."

Justice matters.

(6,928 posts)
6. "prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice and for "individual one."
Thu May 12, 2022, 08:02 AM
May 2022

And both cases ran out their respective statute of limitations, the trump crime syndicate's modus operandi to get off scot-free since his childhood.

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