Nor is it clear whether Trump and his team will ultimately follow through on his threats or what choices each individual subject to the committee’s inquiry will make about his conflicting duties to the former president, the current president, and the congressional inquiry. The various issues raised by the commission’s subpoenas and other requests for information are complex, and largely unanswered by the courts. The committee intends to be aggressive and seek any and all information, notwithstanding any potential privilege issues the Biden administration will pose few, if any obstacles, to the committee’s information demands and the Trump team will exhaust every avenue to fight the release of information. The contours of the looming conflict are becoming clear. 27 that a “good number” of additional subpoenas are forthcoming. Trump responded with a familiar pledge to “fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds” not for his own sake but for the “good of our Country.” And soon thereafter, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, suggested the Biden administration would comply fully with the information requests from the committee and that President Biden had “already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege.” Her statements led to reports that Biden would waive all available claims of privilege before the committee, but the White House later clarified that she was referring only to past cases and that future cases would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. 23- issuing subpoenas to four close confidants of Trump that demand testimony and personal documents about Trump’s actions leading up to and on Jan. 6 attack turned up the heat on the controversy on Sept. The House select committee investigating the Jan. To what extent a former president can rely on executive privilege to prevent Congress from gaining access to information-a question that has rarely arisen and that has never been resolved-is now front and center. And the Biden administration is in possession of the information. Former President Trump has vowed repeatedly to fight those information requests utilizing one of his favorite constitutional weapons while in office, executive privilege. 6 attack on the Capitol and the Trump White House’s efforts to subvert the results of the November 2020 election. Congress is seeking access to information regarding the Jan. Mr. Trump never fired Mr. Rosen, but the plot highlights the former president’s desire to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda.For several weeks now, a constitutional conflict has been simmering on Capitol Hill. That prompted Mr. Trump to consider ousting Mr. Rosen and installing Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan. The investigations were opened after a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results.
Mr. Rosen had a two-hour meeting on Friday with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general and provided closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews.
Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J. Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election