Transparency advocates call on Trump to release White House visitor logs

President-elect Donald Trump should voluntarily release White House visitor logs this time around in a departure from his first administration’s policy that alarmed watchdog groups, transparency advocates say.

The first Trump administration’s decision not to disclose who visited the president and attended meetings with federal officials departed from the policy of former President Barack Obama, whose White House released records roughly three months after visits occurred. Over the last four years, President Joe Biden reinstated the Obama-era rule for the logs on a monthly basis.