New York Times: “Former President Donald J. Trump is seeking to block from release a wide range of documents related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the National Archives said Saturday in an early-morning federal court filing detailing what Trump is fighting to keep secret. In the filing John Laster, the director of the National Archives’ presidential materials division, laid out for the first time exactly which documents Trump was asserting executive privilege over. The former president is hoping to prevent the documents from being reviewed by the House committee empowered to investigate the mob violence at the Capitol.”
“According to the filing, Trump has asserted executive privilege specifically over 770 pages of documents, including 46 pages of records from the files of Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff; Stephen Miller, his former senior adviser; and Patrick Philbin, his former deputy counsel. Trump is also objecting to the release of the White House Daily Diary – a record of the president’s movements, phone calls, trips, briefings, meetings and activities – as well as logs showing phone calls to the president and to Vice President Mike Pence concerning Jan. 6, Laster wrote. Trump has also asserted executive privilege over 656 pages that include proposed talking points for Kayleigh McEnany, his former press secretary; a handwritten note concerning Jan. 6; a draft text of a presidential speech for the ‘Save America’ rally that preceded the mob attack; and a draft executive order on the topic of election integrity, the filing states.”