Select Committee Has W/H Visitor Log: Trump Said No Release — Why Not (LOL LOL)

Trump wanted this kind of log released

(But he lost court case - release happened)

Update on January 6 House Select Committee and access to Trump’s White House visitor logs reported on here from NEWSWEEK with this headline:

“January 6 Chairman Says Trump White House Visitor Logs Proving Very Fruitful”

The Chairman of the House Select Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), investigating the January 6 Capitol riot says the White House visitor logs, which Trump attempted to block releasing, but lost and now the committee now possesses, have been highly beneficial in the panel's investigation.

Mr. Thompson also alluded that the panel may have learned key information from the documents released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). 

Thompson told CNN that the visitor logs of Trump and former VP Pence have been: “Very fruitful.” 

The records provide details of individuals who entered the White House during the Trump administration.

Trump attempted to halt the release of the records, citing executive privilege. 

However, Biden’s White House counsel Dana Remus wrote a letter last month to National Archivist David Ferriero saying: “The President disagrees determining that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interest of the United States, and therefore is not justified, as to these records and portions of records.”

Remus also noted that the Biden administration, as a matter of transparency, have released its logs monthly, as have other administrations.

According to former government ethics expert Norman Eisen, the visitor logs are essential to the January 6 committee's investigation. 

Eisen served as W/H ethics czar, as special counsel, and special assistant to the president for ethics and government reform from 2009 to 2011. He also served as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014. 

Eisen said: “The visitor logs contain a great deal of information about each person who entered the White House during Trump's presidency, including the time they entered, the purpose of the visit, and who they saw.”

Eisen further told Newsweek: “The logs are important, indeed central, to the committee's inquiry because the single largest question looming over its work is the degree of culpability Donald Trump has for the insurrection. It can provide essential lengths in the mapping of any possible conspiracy involving him and others in the White House with those outside the White House. So for those reasons, the visitor logs are indeed crucial.”

In addition to the logs, the January 6 committee has already received hundreds of pages of internal communications, and is also seeking witness testimony from former Trump advisers like Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows.

FYI: Newsweek has reached out to Trump's office for comment.

My 2 Cents: This kind of underscores the reasons Trump did not and still does not want any record of his time in office to be made public.

Sorry old bean – that is not your call – so deal with it.

“We the People” have a compelling right to know. Case closed – finis.

I now suspect that Trump and those very close to him are nervous wrecks and rightly so. Time to pay the piper for your (I suspect) tons of crimes while in office.

Thanks for topping by.