The former president wants to keep secret these archives including, among other things, the lists of people who visited him or having called it on January 6, which a parliamentary committee claims to the hands of the Democrats.
Le Monde with AFP
He persists in his refusal to collaborate. The former US President Donald Trump asked, Thursday, December 23, to the Supreme Court to block the transfer of documents to a parliamentary commission to shed light on his role in the assault conducted on 6 January by his followers against the Capitol.
Republican billionaire lawyers have requested the highest jurisdiction of the United States to cancel a decision taken in early December by a federal court of appeal, which had rejected its attempt to maintain the confidentiality of the archives of the White house.
This Court of Appeal had paved the way for the transfer of hundreds of documents to the parliamentary committee which investigates the attack on the US Congress. However, she left her fourteen days to address the Supreme Court, what the former president did in extremis.
Denial
Donald Trump, which remains central in his camp and does not exclude to represent the presidential election of 2024, wants to keep these archives into secret, among other things, the lists of people who visited him or having called the January 6, which a parliamentary commission claims to the hands of the Democrats.
This special commission of the House of Representatives has been set up to assess the role played by Donald Trump and its entourage in the attack by thousands of its supporters on the headquarters of the Congress to try to prevent elected representatives. to certify the victory of his opponent Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential.
The former president, who denies any liability in the attack, denounces “a political game” and refuses to collaborate. He seized justice in the name of a prerogative of the executive power to keep his communications confidential, even in the event of assignments issued by the 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 foundation, that the election of November 2020 was stolen.