An ex-President Donald TrumpHe is trying block the release of documents such as call logs and drafts speeches and remarks from speeches from his chief staff, relating to Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection, to the investigation committee, according to the National Archives in a filing. This was revealed by the National Archives in a court filing on Saturday.

Trump filed suit to block the National Archives’ transmission of those documents to the House Committee investigating the attack. After deciding that it was “not in America’s best interest,” President Joe Biden refused to grant executive privilege over most Trump records.

As part of the National Archives and Record Administration’s opposition against Trump’s lawsuit. The Saturday filing details how the agency attempted to find records from Trump White House to respond to a wide, 13-page House Committee request. It was for information relating to insurrection and Trump’s attempts at destroying the legitimacy and validity of the 2020 Presidential election.

This document gives a first glimpse at what records could be soon turned over to the committee.

Billy Laster was the White House Liaison Officer at National Archives. Laster wrote that Trump sought to ban 30 pages “daily Presidential Diaries”, schedules, information about visitors to White House, activity logs and shift-change checklists for calls to President Trump, all specific for January 6, 2021. There are also 13 pages “drafts,” remarks, correspondence and speeches concerning January 6.

Trump tried to also exercise executive privilege on pages of Kayleigh McEnany, former White House press secretary, talking points and statements, “principally related to allegations of voter Fraud, Election Security, and other topics regarding the 2020 election.”

Another document included a Meadows handwritten note “listing possible or scheduled briefings & telephone calls concerning the January 6, certification and other electoral issues”, and “a draft Executive Order regarding election integrity.”

Laster notes in his declaration that National Archives started with paper documents as digital records from Trump White House were not transferred until August. He wrote that the National Archives had identified several hundred thousand “potentially responsive records” from emails sent and received by the Trump White House during his presidency. They were working on determining if they related to House’s request.

Biden has waived executive privilege for nearly all of the documents requested by the committee, although the committee was willing to “defer” its requests for several hundred pages of records upon the White House’s request.

White House counsel Dana Remus, White House counsel wrote that Trump hasn’t shielded Trump records’ information. They could also “shed light” on White House events on or about January 6, so the Select Committee can understand why the Federal Government’s operations have been attacked the most seriously since the Civil War.

In an effort to stop Biden’s electoral victory from being declared, an armed mob stormed Capitol. The Democratic-led House impeached Trump on the charge that he incited the Riot, but the Republican-led Senate acquitted him.

Trump described the document request as a “vexatious illegal fishing expedition” and said it was untethered by any legal purpose in his lawsuit against the National Archives to prevent the National Archives giving the documents to Trump.

In addition to challenging the legality, the suit claims that it is unconstitutional for an incumbent president not to grant waivers of executive privilege to a successor just months after his departure. Biden stated that he will review each request individually to decide if the privilege should be waived.