but I could be mistaken.
However, if he's just claiming that "{p}rivilege could apply," that won't "help run out the clock in court delays." In fact, such a "weasel" claim would speed up any court proceeding, since a court wouldn't even consider it but would bounce it back out into the street within nanoseconds.
In this instance, Trump's many claims of executive privilege likely wouldn't work, regardless whether he invokes them in an impeachment inquiry or any other kind of proceeding since most of the information sought doesn't fall within the protection of the doctrine anyway.
But, that said, it's incorrect to say that a valid privilege claim "wouldn't apply" in an impeachment proceeding - this has never actually been decided or determined. As one the favorite sources of some people around here has noted, "{I}t is worth remembering that the Supreme Court has never decided a case concerning a congressional subpoena for information issued to an executive branch official where the president has asserted executive privilege. In theory, the Supreme Court could decide the issue is a political question and leave it to the other two branches to sort out in some other way." https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-powers-does-formal-impeachment-inquiry-give-house.
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