DO NOT CO-OPERATE WITH COMMITTEE, TRUMP EX-AIDES TOLD

An attorney for former president Donald Trump, in a letter reviewed by The Washington Post. instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen Bannon, not to comply with congressional investigators who requested documents by Thursday. The group of former White House aides were subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection last month, seeking records and testimony. Another round of subpoenas was issued by the committee Thursday for organizers of the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the riot. Trump’s legal team argues in the letter that records and testimony related to Jan. 6 are protected “from disclosure by the executive and other privileges, including among others the presidential communications, deliberative process, and attorney-client privileges.” The aides did not respond to repeated requests for comment Thursday. Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich claimed in a statement the “outrageously broad records request that lacks both legal precedent and legislative merit.”