Was the assault on the Capitol a spontaneous act of violence or were the events coordinated?

This is the central question which the parliamentary commission of inquiry is trying to answer before the November midterms.

It is in this context that Joe Biden asked that the registers of visitors to the White House, including the day of the attack due January 6, 2021, be sent to elected officials.

Joe Biden thus rejected the arguments of former President Donald Trump.

The latter believed that these records were subject to "executive privilege", a legal provision that gives the President of the United States the right to keep certain documents secret for the good of the country.

This is not the opinion of the current American president: Joe Biden "has concluded that applying ''executive privilege'' is not in the interest of the United States", writes the attorney Dana Remus, White House counsel, to the director of the National Archives, in a letter released by the White House.

Race against time

She recalls in this letter that the Biden administration “publishes visitor registers on its own initiative each month, with limited exceptions” and recalls that the same was true during the presidency of Barack Obama.

The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the events of January 6, 2021 hopes that these lists will allow it to shed light on the role played by Donald Trump and his official entourage, when a crowd of supporters of the former president stormed the seat of the US Congress.

Donald Trump and his relatives are engaged in a procedural war of attrition with this special committee of the House of Representatives, composed mainly of Democrats.

Time is running out for these parliamentarians: they want to publish their conclusions at all costs before the midterm legislative elections next fall, during which the Republicans could regain control of the House and bury their work.

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Capitol attack: Setback for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court authorizes the transfer of the White House archives

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