--- title: Comey Hearing: Donald Trump Won't Invoke Executive Privilege description: Trump will not invoke executive privilege in the testimony of ousted FBI Director James Comey, the White House said Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-05T18:34:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:16:22.880Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Will Not Invoke Executive Privilege in Comey Testimony og:description: The testimony is set for Thursday. og:url: https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b58c2a763e59de1/6988d030cd1bba8c80705803/trump3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Announces Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative At White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Will Not Invoke Executive Privilege in Comey Testimony twitter:description: The testimony is set for Thursday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b58c2a763e59de1/6988d030cd1bba8c80705803/trump3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House Will Not Invoke Executive Privilege in Comey Testimony  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jun 5, 2017 6:34 PM UTC  President Donald Trump announces the Air Traffic Control Initiative during an event in the East Room of the White House on June 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump announces the Air Traffic Control Initiative during an event in the East Room of the White House on June 5, 2017 in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jun 5, 2017 6:34 PM UTC [President Trump](http://www.thedrive.com/news/11142/president-trump-unveils-plan-to-privatize-americas-air-traffic-control-system) will not invoke executive privilege to block the testimony of ousted FBI Director James Comey, the White House said Monday. “In order to facilitate a swift and thorough examination of the facts sought by the Senate Intelligence Committee, President Trump will not assert executive privilege regarding James Comey’s scheduled testimony,” Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday. The Senate Intelligence Committee announced last week that Comey will testify in an open hearing on June 8, his first official government appearance since Trump unexpectedly fired him last month. White House Senior adviser [Kellyanne Conway ](http://time.com/4802844/kellyanne-conway-trump-climate-change/)hinted last Friday that the President was considering invoking executive privilege. “The President will make that decision,” she said [on “Good Morning America,” ](http://fortune.com/2017/06/02/james-comey-testimony-donald-trump/)although she acknowledged the White House would watch the hearing “with the rest of the world.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/"},"headline":"White House Will Not Invoke Executive Privilege in Comey Testimony","datePublished":"2017-06-05T18:34:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:16:22.880Z","description":"The testimony is on Thursday","url":"https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/","keywords":["White House","Congress","Donald Trump","James Comey","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b58c2a763e59de1/6988d030cd1bba8c80705803/trump3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b58c2a763e59de1/6988d030cd1bba8c80705803/trump3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Announces Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative At White House","caption":"Donald Trump Announces Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative At White House","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4806024/donald-trump-executive-privilege-james-comey-testimony/","name":"White House Will Not Invoke Executive Privilege in Comey Testimony"}}]}] ```