Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege to prevent courtroom adversaries from accessing evidence in a long-running lawsuit that accuses him of stoking violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department disclosed Trump’s secrecy claim Wednesday in a hearing related to that five-year-old lawsuit, brought by police officers injured while attempting to repel the violent mob that day. The officers say Trump’s incendiary remarks to a crowd of supporters — and his direction that they march on the Capitol — fueled the riot that nearly derailed the transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden and left 140 officers injured. Trump’s decision to assert privilege adds to a concerted push to rewrite the story of his bid to subvert the 2020 election.” (12/03/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/trump-executive-privilege-jan-6-lawsuit-00676383