Trump campaign blasts Biden for invoking executive privilege on Hur tape

The Trump campaign on Thursday excoriated President Joe Biden and his administration for invoking executive privilege to prevent the release of his taped interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

The Department of Justice on Thursday informed Congress that Biden had claimed executive privilege over the tapes, just ahead of planned votes by House Republicans to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for not providing them in response to a subpoena. The move drew rebuke from the Trump campaign.

"Crooked Joe Biden and his feeble administration have irretrievably politicized the key constitutional tenet of executive privilege, denying it to their political opponents while aggressively trying to use it to run political cover for Crooked Joe," Trump campaign spokesman Steve Cheung said in a press release.

Cheung did not elaborate on the "denying it to their political opponents" portion, though former Trump White House advisor had attempted to cite executive privilege as justification for not complying with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee. He is currently incarcerated in a Miami federal prison while he serves his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

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