Former President Donald Trump is seeking to block January 6 investigators from seeing hundreds of pages of White House documents that include his handwritten notes as well as phone call logs.
A congressional panel has asked the National Archives - the US government's official body for preserving government records and making them publicly available - to release nearly 1,600 pages of documents as part of their investigation into the deadly January 6 assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol.
The former president is arguing that normal rules for the secrecy of White House documents should apply and that the congressional panel, which includes Trump critics from the Democratic and Republican parties, is a"witch hunt." Trump urged supporters to attend a January 6 rally, telling them it"will be wild." Then at the rally he urged them to march on the Capitol and"show strength," making false claims that he lost the election because of fraud. Shortly afterward, supporters violently broke into the US Capitol and tried to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden's victory. Four people died on the day of the violence, one shot dead by police and the other three of natural causes.
The records Trump wants kept from investigators include"daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointments showing White House visitors, activity logs call logs," according to the court filing by the National Archives.
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