He persists in his refusal to collaborate. Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday, December 23, asked the Supreme Court to block the transfer of documents to a parliamentary committee tasked with shedding light on his role in the assault carried out on January 6 by his supporters against the Capitol.
Lawyers for the billionaire Republican have asked the highest court in the United States to overturn a decision taken in early December by a federal appeals court that rejected its attempt to keep White House records confidential.
This appeals court paved the way, on December 9, for the transfer of hundreds of pages of documents to the parliamentary committee investigating the attack on the US Congress. However, she had left him fourteen days to appeal to the Supreme Court, which the former president therefore did in extremis.
Denial
Donald Trump, who remains central in his camp and does not rule out running for the 2024 presidential election, wants to keep these archives secret, including, among other things, the lists of people who visited him or called him on January 6, demanded by a parliamentary commission in the hands of the Democrats.
This special House of Representatives committee was set up to assess the role played by Donald Trump and his entourage in the attack led by thousands of his supporters on the seat of Congress to try to prevent elected officials from certifying the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in the presidential election.
The former president, who denies any responsibility for the attack, denounces “A political game” and refuses to collaborate. He took legal action in the name of a prerogative of the executive power to keep his communications confidential, even in the event of summons issued by Congress and “Even after the end of his term”.
Donald Trump announced this week that he would hold a press conference on January 6, repeating, without merit, that the November 2020 election was stolen from him.
