According to Richard Ben-Veniste, a Watergate prosecutor, the use of campaign funds “further undermines a wildly broad assertion of executive privilege.… Executive privilege is typically limited to the protection of communications involving a president’s official duties—not to those relating to personal or political campaign matters.” John Yoo, the arch conservative attorney, agreed with Ben-Veniste, telling the Post, “If he acts as a president, he gets these things we talk about—executive privilege and immunity. According to the Post, both Kerik and Eastman were “active” in the Willard hotel command center. According to CNN, Miller attended a meeting at the command center on January 5. “In the days before the January 6th attack, the former president’s closest allies and advisers drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes,” Select Committee chairman Bennie Thompson said in a statement on Monday. So that’s not great news for the former guy!

Source: Fox News November 09, 2021 01:55 UTC