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Posted: 2021-10-26T01:11:56Z | Updated: 2021-10-26T01:11:56Z

WASHINGTON President Joe Biden has rejected another request from his predecessor Donald Trump to cover up Trumps role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol designed to keep him in power despite losing the 2020 election.

Biden had already rejected a request by Trump earlier this month to assert executive privilege over 47 documents that the House committee investigating the Capitol attack had requested from the National Archives. On Monday, White House general counsel Dana Remus wrote archives director David Ferriero that Biden had not changed his view in the intervening days regarding a second batch of documents.

President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, Remus wrote. Accordingly, President Biden does not uphold the former presidents assertion of privilege.

She went on to quote from her Oct. 8 letter , pointing out that the Jan. 6 assault which Trump was impeached for inciting was the most serious attack on the government since the Civil War, and that constitutional protections of privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.

Trumps office did not immediately respond to HuffPosts requests for comment.

The letter from Remus does suggest, however, that there are some documents that the White House does not want to release.

In the course of an accommodation process between Congress and the Executive Branch, the Select Committee has deferred its request for the following responsive records: Bates Numbers 000143-000179; 000398; 000879-000890, she wrote.

The White House declined to detail what those three documents contain.

Committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said the panel has not agreed to forgo the records, just not to insist upon them immediately. The select committee has not withdrawn its request for those records and will continue to engage with the executive branch to ensure we get access to all the information relevant to our probe, he said.