Court filing reveals documents Trump wants to block from January 6 panel

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to block hundreds of pages
of documents from the House panel investigating the Capitol riot, according to
a court filing made on Saturday

The filing was made in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia by John Laster, director of the White House Liaison
division of the National Archives and Records Administration. According to the filing, Trump wants the court to withhold nearly 800
pages of documents from the panel.

Laster has outlined the specific documents Trump wants to be blocked from the House panel, the Washington Post reported. The former President was
ordered to provide records of all his actions and activities on January 6 a few
months back. The panel is investigating the riots that ensued after a pro-Trump
mob stormed the US Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe
Biden’s win over Trump in the US Presidential election. The attack caused five
deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.

Trump does not want the investigators to get hold of 46
pages of records from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former
senior adviser Stephen Miller, former deputy counsel Patrick Philbin and Brian
de Guzman, the former director of White House information services, the
Washington Post report said. These records include schedules and appointments
of the president for that day.

Another 656 pages of records include “pages from multiple
binders containing proposed talking points” for former White House press
secretary Kayleigh McEnany, “presidential activity calendars and a related
handwritten note” for January 6, draft text of a presidential speech for the January
6 Save America March, among other things, the filing said.

Another batch of documents that Trump wants executive privilege
over has a draft proclamation to honour the Capitol Police and officers Brian
Sicknick and Howard Liebengood, who died due to the riots.

Laster filed the
declaration in response to a lawsuit filed by Trump earlier this month against
the House panel and the National Archives that seeks to block access to the
document related to his whereabouts, communications, and activities on the day
of the riot.