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Biden blocks second Trump bid to withhold more Jan. 6 documents

By Steve Holland and Jan Wolfe, Reuters Posted on October 26, 2021

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U.S. President Joe Biden has blocked a second attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents sought by lawmakers investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and ordered the latest batch to be handed over to Congress.

“Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified,” Biden’s counsel Dana Remus wrote in an Oct. 25 letter to the National Archives and Records Administration.

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Biden blocks second Trump bid to withhold more Jan. 6 documents

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