Joe Biden waived Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege?

John Solomon is one of the best investigative reports in DC. When writes an article about breaking news, I listen. This morning, Solomon is breaking news again, this time reporting that the White House started the investigation into President Trump.

According to Just The News' reporting, aka JTN, "On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel's Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes," Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran."

After that, Solomon reports "The Counsel to the President has informed me 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,'" Wall wrote. "... I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege."

Section 1 of Article II of the US Constitution, which deals with the Executive Branch, opens with this sentence:

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

In other words, whatever the sitting president deems privileged is privileged. Executive Privilege isn't determined by future presidents, especially his successor. The privilege belongs to the sitting president:

This is Solomon's original reporting:

At a minimum, this exposes the Biden administration, if proven, as liars. They stated publicly that they knew nothing about the investigation into President Trump. This is undisputable proof that they knew about the investigation. You can't sit at a fire with a book of matches and some white gas, then tell the arson investigator you don't know how the fire started. It just isn't credible.

The memos provide the most definitive evidence to date of the current White House's effort to facilitate a criminal probe of the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election and may face again as a challenger in 2024. That involvement included eliminating one of the legal defenses Trump might use to fight the FBI over access to his documents.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and the committee's likely chairman if the GOP win control of Congress in November, called the Biden White House's involvement and privilege waiver "amazing news" with implications for past and future presidents.

"Look, the left, they've been out to get President Trump because President Trump's a threat to the clique, to the swamp, to the bureaucracy, to the deep state," Jordan told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Tuesday night. "Whatever term you want to use. And they all know it.

"That's why they were out to get him before he was in office, and they set up the whole Russia collusion hoax. It's why they tried to get him while he was in office. And of course, obviously they continue to do so now that he's left. It's just never going to end."

Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus and lifelong Democrat, reviewed some of the correspondence at Just the News' request. He said the Biden White House's eagerness to waive Trump's claims of privilege could have future implications for generations of presidents to come.

This isn't a theoretical exercise. This is happening right now.