White House yet to release visitor logs for month Biden dropped out of race

The White House has inactive not released its visitant logs for July, the period President Biden gave up his re-election bid, leaving questions astir who was seeing and advising the president earlier helium made the historical determination to driblet out. 

Despite consistently releasing visitant records astatine the opening of each period passim Biden’s term, the White House arsenic of mid-November is acold past its accustomed timeline for releasing impermanent records.

It released its astir caller logs connected Oct. 4. These records covered visits to the White House until June 26.

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President Biden (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)

At the opening of Biden’s presidency, media outlets praised the Biden medication for resuming the merchandise of visitant logs aft the Trump medication stopped the signifier during his term. The New York Times spoke highly of the signifier arsenic "part of an effort to reconstruct transparency to government." 

This signifier revealed that Dr. Kevin Cannard, a apical Parkinsons illness expert, made respective visits to the White House successful 2024, expanding anxieties astir the 81-year-old president’s wellness and carnal fitness.

After Biden’s mediocre statement show connected June 27, unit for him to resign rapidly mounted. But Biden did not driblet retired of the contention until July 21. White House visitant logs would uncover who was adjacent to the president successful that captious month.

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President Biden is shown during the statesmanlike statement successful Atlanta connected June 27, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

This has led some, specified arsenic Caitlin Sutherland, enforcement manager of the right-leaning authorities watchdog radical Americans for Public Trust, to question the Biden administration’s crushed for delaying publishing its records. 

Sutherland criticized the Biden medication for failing to present connected its committedness and leaving the American radical successful the dark. 

"The American radical inactive don’t cognize who was coming and going from the spot of powerfulness successful the lead-up to Joe Biden’s ouster and Kamala’s coronation," Sutherland told Fox News Digital. 

"At the outset, the Biden-Harris medication promised information and transparency," she added. "Now, successful the dwindling days of their term, their refusal to merchandise White House visitant logs from specified a tumultuous play illustrates conscionable however hollow that committedness was."

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Andrew Bates, a White House representative, responded to these criticisms by calling Americans for Public Trust a "dark wealth group" and pointing to the information that the Trump medication did not people immoderate of its visitant records for the entirety of his term.

"It’s intriguing that this right-wing acheronian wealth radical was soundless for years arsenic the Trump medication stopped sharing White House visitant logs with the public, but they person present abruptly developed an involvement successful transparency astir records that we’ll beryllium releasing successful the adjacent future," helium said. "We admit them inadvertently highlighting that Joe Biden leads the astir transparent medication successful American history."

Bates did not remark connected erstwhile the White House plans connected releasing its July visitant records oregon what has been the origin of the delay.