Defeat for former US president, Donald Trump. The Supreme Court The US paved the way yesterday, Wednesday, for the official White House records of Donald Trump's communications and contacts on January 6, 2021, to be handed over to the special examination committee of the House of Representatives which is conducting an investigation focused on the former president's role in the attack on the federal Capitol.
The court rejected, by eight votes to nine, the former president's attempt to defend the confidential nature of White House records., with a brief appeal that did not explain his motives.
The hundreds of pages of records include, among other things, lists of people who visited him or with whom he communicated on January 6, 2021, and notes taken during those exchanges.
The Supreme Court's decision is a crucial victory for the House of Representatives' special investigative committee, which has been embroiled in a legal battle with the former head of state, his relatives, and his close associates.
Its members, mostly Democratic Party officials, aim to to ascertain the role of the stormy tycoon in the attack by thousands of his supporters on the seat of Congress, with the aim of preventing the formal certification of his opponent Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
The committee is racing against time, as it wants to publish its findings before the November midterm parliamentary elections at all costs.. Because if the Republicans regain control of the US House of Representatives in the upcoming elections, it is considered a given that they will dissolve it and bury its work.
Donald Trump, who remains a dominant figure in the Republican camp and has by no means ruled out the possibility to run for president again in 2024, attempted to obstruct its work, invoking the executive privilege to protect the confidential nature of its communications.
