Can you break an egg twice? Asking for a friend. Trumpty Dumpty is probably scrambling himself right now as he pounds his legs and tiny fists and screams because once again, a court has fixed it so that he can’t have his own way. And they’ve find a direct linkage between TFG and what happened January 6, no less. The hell you say? Raw Story:
“The January 6th Committee has also demonstrated a sound factual predicate for requesting these presidential documents specifically,” the court writes. “There is a direct linkage between the former President and the events of the day.”
“Then-President Trump called for his supporters to gather in Washington, D.C. for a ‘wild’ response to what he had been alleging for months was a stolen election,” the court argues. “On January 6th, President Trump directed his followers to go to the Capitol and ‘fight’ for their Country with the aim of preventing Congress’s certification of the electoral vote.”
The court also argues that congressional investigators need information about what the White House knew about potential threat assessments leading up to the riot, as the White House serves as “the hub for intelligence about threats of violent action against the government, and the Executive Branch is in charge of federal law enforcement and mobilizing the National Guard to defend the Capitol.”
One more effort to run out the clock and tie up the court system foiled. Oh wells. So much for executive privilege, at least the way Trumpty is trying to spin it.
SFGate’s story:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Court-rejects-Trump-s-efforts-to-keep-records-16689183.php