Biden White House: We can’t publish Trump’s visitor logs

White House Biden has said it cannot unilaterally publish Trump’s White House visitor logs, amid questions whether anyone who participated in the Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill had visited the former president in the days leading up to it.

“Under the Presidential Archives Act, all visitor logs to the Trump White House are under the control and legal custody of the National Archives and Archives Administration, and cannot be unilaterally published by the Biden’s White House, ”a White House spokesperson said Wednesday following inquiries. journalists during a press briefing the day before.

The Presidential Records Act, which requires a sitting president to preserve and ultimately make public all records relating to the performance of his or her official duties, was passed 42 years ago in response to President Richard Nixon’s attempts to hide the tapes of the White House that led to its downfall. . The law makes the presidential archives available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act as of five years after the end of an administration.