前总统唐纳德·特朗普美国国家档案馆在周六早些时候提交的一份法庭文件中透露，正在试图阻止将包括通话记录、讲话草稿和他的幕僚长手写的笔记在内的与1月6日国会大厦暴动有关的文件发布给调查暴乱的委员会。
特朗普已提起诉讼，阻止国家档案馆将这些文件以及数千份文件转交给调查此次袭击的众议院委员会。在确定这样做“不符合美国的最大利益”后，乔·拜登总统拒绝对特朗普的大部分记录行使行政特权
周六提交的文件是国家档案和记录管理局反对特朗普诉讼的一部分，文件详细介绍了该机构为识别特朗普白宫的记录所做的努力，以回应众议院委员会长达13页的广泛要求，要求提供与叛乱和特朗普破坏2020年总统选举合法性的努力有关的文件选举。
这份文件首次提供了可能很快移交给委员会进行调查的那种记录。
美国国家档案馆白宫联络部主任比利·林泓写道，在特朗普试图封锁的特定文件中，有30页的“总统日常日记、日程安排、显示白宫访客的约会信息、活动日志、通话记录以及显示总统和副总统通话的总机轮班清单，所有这些都是专门针对或包含2021年1月6日的;13页“关于2021年1月6日事件的演讲、评论和信函草稿;和“来自(前白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯)档案中的三份关于1月6日事件的手写笔记。"
特朗普还试图对前白宫新闻秘书凯莉·麦克纳尼(Kayleigh McEnany)的谈话要点和声明文件夹行使行政特权，“主要涉及对选民欺诈、选举安全和其他与2020年选举有关的话题的指控。”
其他文件包括梅多斯档案中的一份手写说明，“列出了关于1月6日认证和其他选举问题的潜在或计划的简报和电话”，以及“一份关于选举诚信主题的行政命令草案。”
林泓的声明指出，国家档案馆的搜索从纸质文件开始，因为特朗普白宫的数字记录直到8月份才移交给该机构。他写道，国家档案馆已经从特朗普执政期间发送或接收的约1亿封电子邮件中，确定了“数十万封可能有回应的记录”，并正在努力确定这些记录是否与众议院的请求有关。
到目前为止，拜登已经放弃了委员会要求的几乎所有文件的行政特权，尽管委员会同意在拜登白宫的要求下“推迟”对几十页记录的要求。
在解释拜登为何没有屏蔽特朗普的记录时，白宫法律顾问达纳·雷穆斯(Dana Remus)写道，这些记录可以“揭示1月6日及其前后白宫内部发生的事件，并说明特别委员会需要了解自内战以来对联邦政府运作的最严重攻击背后的事实。”
1月6日，一群特朗普支持者武装暴徒冲进国会大厦，试图阻止对拜登选举胜利的认证。特朗普被民主党领导的众议院弹劾，指控他煽动暴乱，但被共和党领导的参议院无罪释放。
特朗普在阻止国家档案馆向委员会移交文件的诉讼中称，该文件要求进行“无理取闹、非法的捕鱼考察”，这“不受任何合法立法目的的限制”。
该诉讼还对《总统记录法》的合法性提出质疑，认为允许在任总统在离任仅几个月后放弃前任的行政特权本质上是违宪的。拜登曾表示，他将分别审查每一项请求，以决定是否应该放弃这一特权。
Trump wants call logs, aide's notes hidden from Jan. 6 panel
Former PresidentDonald Trumpis trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection from being released to the committee investigating the riot, the National Archives revealed in a court filing early Saturday.
Trump has sued to prevent the National Archives from transmitting those documents, and thousands more, to the House committee investigating the attack. President Joe Biden declined to assert executive privilege on most of Trump's records after determining that doing so is “not in the best interests of the United States.”
The Saturday filing, which came as part of the National Archives and Record Administration's opposition to Trump's lawsuit, details the effort the agency has undertaken to identify records from the Trump White House in response to a broad, 13-page request from the House committee for documents pertaining to the insurrection and Trump's efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 presidentialelection.
The document offers the first look at the sort of records that could soon be turned over to the committee for its investigation.
Billy Laster, the director of the National Archives' White House Liaison Division, wrote that among the particular documents Trump has sought to block are 30 pages of “daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointment information showing visitors to the White House, activity logs, call logs, and switchboard shift-change checklists showing calls to the President and Vice President, all specifically for or encompassing January 6, 2021; 13 pages of ”drafts of speeches, remarks, and correspondence concerning the events of January 6, 2021; and “three handwritten notes concerning the events of January 6 from (former White House chief of staff Mark) Meadows’ files.”
Trump also tried to exert executive privilege over pages from former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany's binders of talking points and statements “principally relating to allegations of voter fraud, election security, and other topics concerning the 2020 election.”
Other documents included a handwritten note from Meadows' files "listing potential or scheduled briefings and telephone calls concerning the January 6 certification and other election issues" and “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity.”
Laster's declaration notes that the National Archives' search began with paper documents because it took until August for digital records from the Trump White House to be transferred to the agency. The National Archives, he wrote, has identified “several hundred thousand potentially responsive records” of emails from the Trump White House out of about 100 million sent or received during his administration, and was working to determine whether they pertained to the House request.
Biden has so far waived executive privilege on nearly all the documents that the committee has asked for, though the committee agreed to “defer” its requests for several dozen pages of records at the behest of the Biden White House.
In explaining why Biden has not shielded Trump's records, White House counsel Dana Remus wrote that they could “shed light on events within the White House on and about January 6 and bear on the Select Committee’s need to understand the facts underlying the most serious attack on the operations of the Federal Government since the Civil War.”
On Jan. 6, an armed mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the certification of Biden’s election victory. Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House on a charge he incited the riot but was acquitted by the Republican-led Senate.
Trump called the document requests a “vexatious, illegal fishing expedition” that was “untethered from any legitimate legislative purpose,” in his lawsuit to block the National Archives from turning over the documents to the committee.
The suit also challenges the legality of the Presidential Records Act, arguing that allowing an incumbent president to waive executive privilege of a predecessor just months after he left office is inherently unconstitutional. Biden has said he would go through each request separately to determine whether that privilege should be waived.
