The House Wins: A federal judge yesterday overruled Donald Trump’s objections and ordered that hundreds of pages of the former president’s White House records must be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6^th Capitol insurrection.

  “The court holds that the public interest lies in permitting—not enjoining—the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events that led to and occurred on January 6, and to consider legislation to prevent such events from ever occurring again,” Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in a 39-page decision.

  The House committee is trying to determine Trump’s role in fomenting the assault on the Capitol that was an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump has sought to protect as many as 800 pages of records as a matter of executive privilege, which he no longer has because he’s not president anymore.

  Chutkan wrote, “The Committee could reasonably expect the requested records to shed light on any White House planning and strategies concerning public messaging about the election, any efforts to halt or delay the electoral count, and preparations for and responses to the January 6 rally and attack.” 

  In another development yesterday, the same House committee issued subpoenas to another 10 former Trump aides and advisers, including the odious Stephen Miller and angry former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. That’s in addition to six subpoenas issued Monday.

   “We need to know precisely what role the former president and his aides played in efforts to stop the counting of the electoral votes and if they were in touch with anyone outside the White House attempting to overturn the outcome of the election,” said Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the panel.

  It was a bad day all around for the former president and his close supporters. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his former chief of staff are among 13 people accused of violating a law prohibiting federal employees from using their power to conduct a political campaign on the job.

  An investigation headed by Henry Kerner, chief of the Office of Special Counsel, concluded that Trump’s people waited until the final weeks of the campaign to abuse their authority when it was too late for anyone to catch them.

  “Senior Trump administration officials chose to use their official authority not for the legitimate functions of the government, but to promote the re-election of President Trump in violation of the law,” the report concluded.

Citizens, No Arrest: One of the first officers to reach the scene of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting said the man he interviewed never said that he, his son, and a third man were trying to make a citizen’s arrest when they chased down Arbery in a pickup truck.

  It’s a critical point in the case in which the defendants claim they killed in self-defense.

  Officer Jeff Brandeberry testified that Gregory McMichael had told him “This guy comes hauling ass down the street. I’m talking about dead run, he’s not jogging.” He told Brandeberry he ran into his house and grabbed his .357 Magnum, adding, “I don’t take any chances.” 

  Arbery was black and his three pursuers white. 

  William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. struck Arbery with his pickup and then Arbery tried to wrestle a shotgun away from Travis McMichael who shot him.

Power Move: General Electric, the company that started out making electricity and lightbulbs before growing into a conglomerate branched into locomotives, fighter jets, medical imaging, finance, and broadcasting, announced yesterday that it is splitting into three separate companies.

  Wall Street evidently has fallen out of love with big companies that are into everything. The company pancaked during the 2008 financial crisis and was later was removed from the Dow Joes blue chip index. 

  GE plans to spin off its health care division in 2023 and its energy businesses in 2024. The aviation unit would be left standing alone.

Social Page — Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt at 15 and became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was married in a small ceremony at her parents’ home in England. She’s now 24. 

Thrown for Loss: The NFL is fining Green bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers $14,650 for violating Covid safety precautions, attending a Halloween party while unvaccinated. The team is forfeiting $300,000.

The Obit Page: Max Cleland, a grievously wounded Vietnam veteran who became a Democratic US senator from Georgia, has died at age 79 of congestive heart failure.

  Cleland was an Army captain in Khe San in April 1968 when an accidental grenade explosion ripped off the lower half of his right arm and shredded his legs. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

  Despite the severity of his injuries, Cleland maintained a cheerful demeanor. He was appointed to head the Veterans Administration before he was elected to the Senate in 1996.

  In 2002 while he was running for re-election, the Republicans ran an attack ad showing images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, suggesting that Cleland was soft in the war on terror. Fellow Vietnam veteran, the Republican John McCain said, “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”

  Cleland’s loss sent him into a tailspin with a resurgence of post-traumatic stress. He told History.net “I went down in every way you can go down. I lost my life as I knew it.” It took him years to recover.

Signing Off: Former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams, who was banished to cable after overtelling the danger he faced in Iraq, announced he’s leaving the network entirely after 28 years. You may have thought he had disappeared, but he’s been hosting a somewhat popular show called “The 11th Hour.” 

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