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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYT article:

[i]As Archives Leans on Ex-Presidents, Its Only Weapon Is ‘Please’:

The National Archives does not have any independent ability to enforce its request that former presidents and vice presidents scour their documents for classified material.[/i]

So the question is, how did the DOJ get involved? Biden had Trump’s executive privilege waived through Jonathan Su.  So when Joe said that he wasn’t involved with this, he’s a liar. [/quote]

Get a grip. Trump is playing fast and loose with the highest level national security information. Trump doesn’t have executive privilege. What delusional world do you live in? [/quote]

Biden agreed to provide Congress with records pertaining to Jan 6. Trump tried to assert communication privilege under the Presidential records act to keep those records from reaching Congress. Biden overruled him. Courts agreed based on a decision from Nixon's post presidency. Biden also decided not to provide Trump with daily briefings due to his erratic behavior leading up to Jan 6.

None of that has anything to do with what Trump has been indicted for.

As for the DOJ you can read all about it here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22186883-archivist-letter-on-trump-documents
1. Thru 2021 NARA was asking Trump about what appeared to be missing documents
2. January 2022 Trump gives NARA 15 boxes which turn out to include top secret and other classified materials
3. NARA tells DOJ there were classified records in the boxes returned by Trump
4. DOJ wants to review those records, but has to ask the current President for permission to review them
5. White House counsel formally transmitted that request to the NARA with no objections
6. Trump's lawyers wanted to review the material themselves
7. White House Counsel allowed a 4 week extension for FI to review the records
8. Corcoran wanted more time (past April 29, 2022)
9. The Counsel to the President has informed me (acting archivist)  that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported “protective assertion of executive privilege.”See36 C.F.R. § 1270.44(f)(3). Accordingly, I have consulted with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel to inform my “determination as to whether to honor the former President’s claim of privilege or instead to disclose the Presidential records notwithstanding the claim of privilege.” Exec. Order No. 13,489, § 4(a).
10. Based on a denial of Nixon post presidency exec privilege claims decided in the courts at that time, the DOJ rejected Trump's privilege claims. 
11. Archivist further explains that a request like Trump's has never been made before but they can refer his lawyers fr help getting security clearances if they also want to review the docs.

Basically, Biden (legally and properly) decided Trump was too much of a loose cannon to trust with NEW security information, and for the rest of it he stood aside and let the NARA and DOJ and White House Counsel do their job.

Trump's only legal standing once he was no longer president (he wasn't, in case you forgot), was to be nice, trustworthy, and say please, none of which he knows how to do. 
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