“See you in court, Mr. President,” a watchdog group warned on Friday, after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under pressure from a federal lawsuit, released just two pages of Mar-a-Lago visitor records, despite earlier promises to reveal the full list of visitors to President Donald Trump’s so-called Winter White House.

“This is spitting in the eye of transparency. We will be fighting this in court.”
—Noah Bookbinder, CREW”After waiting months for a response to our request for comprehensive visitor logs from the president’s multiple visits to Mar-a-Lago and having the government ask for a last minute extension, today we received 22 names from the Japanese prime minister’s visit to Mar-a-Lago, and nothing else,” said Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Bookbinder’s group shared the short visitor list on Twitter:

CREW, joined by the National Security Archive and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, had filed a federal lawsuit in April after Secret Service spent months refusing to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for visitor logs from the White House as well as the president’s Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower residences.

The groups charge, as Common Dreams previously reported, that “the public deserves to know who is coming to meet with the president and his staff.”

And, as a New York Times analyis has shown, the president often conducts official business at his various properties—particularly Mar-a-Lago, which is located in Palm Beach, Florida. Since entering office in January, the Times reports that Trump has spent at least 25 days at his Winter White House.