Dan Scavino walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One in Washington, Oct. 3, 2019, to join President Donald Trump for a short trip. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By Kyle Cheney and Nicholas Wu
03/27/2022 08:06 PM EDT
President Joe Biden turned down an effort by Dan Scavino, the longtime social media manager for Donald Trump, to resist the Jan. 6 select committee by asserting executive privilege.
The disclosure came as part of a 34-page report released Sunday evening by congressional investigators as the Jan. 6 committee prepared to begin contempt proceedings against Scavino and Peter Navarro, another ally in the former president’s last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
‘‘President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest, and therefore is not justified,” the White House counsel’s office informed Scavino on March 15, according to the newly posted materials.
Biden’s decision is the latest in a long string of rejections for Trump advisers seeking to frustrate the select committee by citing executive privilege. The White House has issued similar statements pertaining to former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump aide Steve Bannon and others who have insisted their proximity to Trump in the closing weeks of his presidency made them immune from testimony.
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