Trump wins temporary victory in effort to keep White House records secret
by David Smith and Joan E Greve in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5RT04)
The former president is asking a court to block release of material related to the House investigation into the attack on the Capitol
Donald Trump, the former US president, has been scrambling this week to make a last-ditch legal bid to block the release of sensitive White House records related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol - and scored a victory on Thursday when a federal appeals court allowed a temporary stay on the process.
The National Archives, a federal agency that holds presidential files, was poised to begin givingcongressional investigators hundreds of pages of documents and other material, such as video clips, that Trump wants to keep secret, on Friday.
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