Biden Torched Executive Privilege to Get Trump — Now It’s Blowing Up His In His Face
I’m usually not one for making predictions, but on Monday, something happened that I predicted back in February 2022, and it’s worth repeating now.
What happened was that Joe Biden refused to assert executive privilege over Donald Trump’s White House records so that the partisan January 6 Committee could access those records for their so-called “investigation.”
Over at PJ Media, I warned that this short-sighted move would come back to haunt him. By green-lighting the January 6 Committee’s access to Trump’s documents, Biden thought he was gonna get Trump put in prison. What he really did was help erode an institutional protection every president is supposed to enjoy.
Biden was hoping that they’d find criminality and thus be able to stop Trump’s return to the White House. Well, that failed big time. Here’s what I said at the time:
Joe Biden now opens himself up to the risk that Trump and a Republican majority will launch a slew of investigations, during which Biden’s White House documents will be an open book, thanks to the precedent he set by not asserting executive privilege over his predecessor’s White House communications.
It was clear then that Joe Biden would “rue the day he didn’t assert executive privilege over Trump docs.”
And then he did it again. In May 2022, Biden’s White House Counsel’s Office formally requested the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) grant the FBI access to 15 boxes of Trump documents at Mar-a-Lago. Biden also authorized NARA to waive any privilege claims Trump might raise.
In other words, he didn’t just fail to protect Trump’s records; he actively helped dismantle the wall protecting them.
Well, that day has arrived.
On Monday, President Trump formally rejected Biden’s attempt to invoke executive privilege over documents sought by the Senate in multiple investigations into his scandal-plagued presidency. White House counsel David Warrington sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on Monday, directing it to hand the disputed records over to Congress, declaring Biden’s privilege claim “is not justified” and “not in the best interests of the United States.”
The scope of what’s coming is enormous.
Three separate investigations are going on: the coordinated coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline, the weaponization of the federal government against Trump and his allies through politically motivated prosecutions, and the Biden Crime Family saga — including Hunter’s Burisma board seat, Biden’s Ukraine policy as VP, and his use of private email accounts.
All of the Biden White House records on these issues will be an open book now, and to say that’s a huge problem for Joe Biden is an understatement.
“The abuse of the autopen that took place during the Biden Presidency, and the extraordinary efforts to shield President Biden’s diminished faculties from the public, must be subject to a full accounting to ensure nothing similar ever happens again,” Warrington warned. The White House added that “the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield from Congress evidence of a President’s efforts to imprison his opponent.”
Biden set the rules. Trump is simply playing by them.