Does a former President have the right of Executive Privilege?

[Rye Catcher]

Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel​

ZEKE MILLER
Sat, October 30, 2021, 4:07 AM


Former President Donald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection from being released to the committee investigating the riot, the National Archives revealed in a court filing early Saturday.
Trump has sued to prevent the National Archives from transmitting those documents, and thousands more, to the House committee investigating the attack. President Joe Biden declined to assert executive privilege on most of Trump's records after determining that doing so is “not in the best interests of the United States.”

It seems former President Trump seeks to use this privilege to cover up the events before, during and after the events on Jan 6th, 2021.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Was he president at the time?

 

[Moonglow]

No president or any person should have executive privilege nor should they have immunity from their actions regarding prosecution..

 

[Moonglow]

Since people do have immunity from justice I told my kids they do not have to recite the pledge of allegiance since it was a false aver.

 

[Orangecat]

since it was a false aver.

WTF is an "aver"? Sounds like a word a child might make up.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

The only reason he's claiming EP is because he knows that he along with other Republicans in the House and Senate are not only going to get named as having both arranged and organized the event, but actively strategized that day how the results of a free and fairly held election could be overturned. It won't be a good look. At least to a portion of the people who still support Trump. Enough to bleed away any shot he has at running in 2024 and also to put a giant hole in Republicans plans to take back the House and Senate next year.

 

[skews13]

Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel​

ZEKE MILLER
Sat, October 30, 2021, 4:07 AM


Former President Donald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection from being released to the committee investigating the riot, the National Archives revealed in a court filing early Saturday.
Trump has sued to prevent the National Archives from transmitting those documents, and thousands more, to the House committee investigating the attack. President Joe Biden declined to assert executive privilege on most of Trump's records after determining that doing so is “not in the best interests of the United States.”

It seems former President Trump seeks to use this privilege to cover up the events before, during and after the events on Jan 6th, 2021.

No. A President only has EP regarding advice given in confidence that is directly related to national matters, while he was in office. He no longer has that privilege once he is no longer in office, and he didn't have it in office regarding in matters of criminality.

He is welcome to exercise is right to remain silent when he is arrested, and he has the right not to testify in his own defense at trial.

 

[White 6]

Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel​

ZEKE MILLER
Sat, October 30, 2021, 4:07 AM


Former President Donald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection from being released to the committee investigating the riot, the National Archives revealed in a court filing early Saturday.
Trump has sued to prevent the National Archives from transmitting those documents, and thousands more, to the House committee investigating the attack. President Joe Biden declined to assert executive privilege on most of Trump's records after determining that doing so is “not in the best interests of the United States.”

It seems former President Trump seeks to use this privilege to cover up the events before, during and after the events on Jan 6th, 2021.

Nope. No executive privilege for X-presidents, unrelated to national security, and even that reviewed on approval of current national security.

 

[Moonglow]

WTF is an "aver"? Sounds like a word a child might make up.

Ignorance is bliss..

 

[Orangecat]

Ignorance is bliss..

That explains your blissful demeanor.

 

[Moonglow]

That explains your blissful demeanor.

As you aver you only dig yer hole of ignorance deeper.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Since people do have immunity from justice I told my kids they do not have to recite the pledge of allegiance since it was a false aver.

It’s more likely you told them that because you hate America.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

trump called the Jan 6th rioters "a bunch of retards." And trump doesn't want that to get out to the public.

 

[my2¢]

Throughout his presidency Trump had problem with many who served at the pleasure of the president. The problem was most profound with those that understood their service was to be directed to their employer, the American government. Trump's current stance suffers from the same delusion that these folks were his personal servants.

 

[Moonglow]

It’s more likely you told them that because you hate America.

I hate lies and the pledge is a lie to the true condition of the political and social standing as to the fact that their is not liberty and justice for all...

 

[Donald H]

It's as good as an admission of guilt by Trump.
His supporters are well past the point of caring about Trump's criminal activity and so this will make news on Trump and that's what he needs the most.

America is long past anyone caring about lying, cheating, or criminal activity disqualifying a politician.

When do we use the guns?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

I hate lies and the pledge is a lie to the true condition of the political and social standing as to the fact that their is not liberty and justice for all...

I agree. Leftism is destroying liberty and Justice.

 

[whitehall]

I think Bill Clinton got away with it but he was a democrat so that sheds a different light on the issue. It should be noted that FDR's medical records disappeared from a locked safe shortly after he died. They could have revealed a lot about his mental and physical state but nobody seemed to care at the time including the media.

 

[Moonglow]

I agree. Leftism is destroying liberty and Justice.

You are blind in one eye and can't see out of the other so that makes you a king in the land of the blind. It is both parties that are doing it not a political theory, Jesus, pull yer head out and see the real world for what it is.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It is a complete shame that the results of this fake and stolen election was not overturned. We would not be in the catastrophic position we are in.