Because Trump has no executive privilege, asshat. He's not the executive. Biden holds that position now.Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has abruptly ended his cooperation with the congressional committee investigating the January 6 assault on the United States Capitol by supporters of the former president, his lawyer said.
Lawyer George Terwilliger said in a letter on Tuesday that a deposition would be “untenable” for his client.
He said the congressional panel probing the Capitol riot “has no intention of respecting boundaries” concerning questions that Trump has claimed are off-limits due to “executive privilege”.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.He had initially snubbed a subpoena to testify before the House of Representatives panel, setting up possible contempt charges, before reaching an agreement on sharing information with investigators last month.
Terwilliger said Meadows’s change of mind came after he learned during the weekend that the committee had “issued wide-ranging subpoenas for information from a third party communications provider”.
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The reversal came as Meadows has been receiving attention for a new book, released on Tuesday, which revealed that Trump received a positive COVID-19 test before a presidential debate and was far sicker than the White House revealed at the time.
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