Biden Rejects Executive Privilege for Former Trump Advisers

Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention hosted by the AFL-CIO at the Prairie Meadows Hotel in Altoona, Iowa Gage Skidmore Flickr.

President Biden will not assert executive privilege to protect two former Trump administration advisers, Peter Navarro and Michael Flynn, from testifying or turning over relevant documents to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6th Capitol riot.

The Hill reports:

Deputy White House counsel Jonathan Su wrote letters to Navarro, who served as President Trump’s trade adviser, and an attorney representing Michael Flynn, Trump’s one-time national security adviser, notifying them of Biden’s decision on Monday.

In the letter to Navarro, Su reiterated that Biden believes an assertion of executive privilege is “in the national interest” given the “unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation.”

In the letter to Flynn’s attorney, David Warrington, Su noted that Flynn, who resigned in 2017 under pressure after less than a month on the job, left the White House in 2017, long before the Jan. 6 attack in 2021.

Navarro, who was subpoenaed by the House panel, has pledged to fight it in court and noted the danger in allowing a sitting president to revoke the executive privilege of his predecessor.

“You and the Biden regime along with partisan judges and the witch hunt otherwise known as the Jan 6 committee are doing great violence to the Constitution and the country,” Navarro wrote in the message. “See you at the Supreme Court.”

Previously, President Biden rejected Trump’s claims of executive privilege over White House documents the panel requested.



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