President Biden has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to assert executive privilege and prevent lawmakers from obtaining certain records related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
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“The president has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from the Trump White House that had been provided to us by the National Archives,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday.
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