A Summary of a House Select Committee Hearing on the Capitol Hill Insurrection During the January 6, 2021, Insights into the 2020 Presidential Campaign

The accusation came in a ruling by the judge, David O. Carter, ordering John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who strategized with the former president about overturning the election, to hand over 33 more emails to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The emails contained possible evidence of criminal behavior and were determined by Judge Carter.

The federal district court in central California has released most of the emails from the Chapman University account by the man who is now accused of a crime. Nevertheless, there are still disagreements between the two sides over more than 500 additional documents from the email account.

There are troves of communications that have already been collected by the January 6 investigation, as demonstrated in the House’s latest court filing.

Another email that Eastman’s team said was attorney communications was a joking discussion between lawyers about stays at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.

A lawyer writing for the Trump campaign wrote that it would be a shame if you were not in DC. I’m staying at Trump Int. The time was from Jan 3 to East 8th. Do[i]ng my part to curry favor w[i]th the Pres[i]dent by [li]n[i]ng h[i]s (empty) pockets! [smiley face emoji],” another wrote.

The House select committee’s final hearing on the Capitol Hill insurrection before the midterm elections Thursday used new testimony and evidence to demonstrate how former President Donald Trump knew he had lost the election but still went forward with efforts to overturn the results, leading to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The committee, in its summary Monday, gave several other examples of “evidence suggesting specific efforts to obstruct” their work. They noted efforts by Trump to contact some witnesses, as well as multiple Secret Service agents hiring private lawyers rather than agency-provided lawyers who would represent them for free. The lawyer for the Secret Service driver confessed to writing notes for the driver while they were testifying.

The House committee lays out a number of criminal statutes it believes were violated in the plots to stave off Trump’s defeat and says there’s evidence for criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Trump, Eastman and “others.”

The top Republican on the panel, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, said they are obligated to ask the man who set this whole thing in motion. “And every American is entitled to the answers, so we can act now to protect our republic.”

And select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, argued that Trump “is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on January 6th. We’d like to hear from him.

Of course, the panel is issuing the subpoena nearing the end of recognition as a select committee, which is likely an acknowledgment that Trump is not going to comply. Should Trump object to the subpoena, it could lead to a lengthy court fight that outlives the committee.

The January 6 committee, which is currently constructed, will not exist if Republicans take back control of the House and the panel won’t have time to make a final report.

Additional footage from Fort McNair was not shown by the committee. The exclusive footage will air on CNN on Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET, during a special edition of “Anderson Cooper 360°.” After getting out of the Capitol, congressional leaders gathered at Fort Mcintyre to try to figure out what was going on, and begged for assistance as they frantically tried to quell the insurrection.

When they saw little sign of help on the way, they all exploded. “Why don’t you get the President to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Attorney General, in your law enforcement responsibility,” Schumer barked at Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. The legislative leaders’ frantic efforts to restore peace were in marked contrast to Trump’s failure to take action as he watched the riot unfold from the confines of the West Wing of the White House.

The footage also showed two phone calls between Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence, who took on an impromptu leadership role on January 6, coordinating the emergency response.

The new footage showed Schumer dressing down then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. During their heated phone call, Schumer implored Rosen to intervene directly with Trump, and tell Trump to call off the mob. Pelosi said the rioters were breaking the law at the instigation of the president.

Elaine Chao spoke of her disgust at the attack when she testified to the committee, a day after she resigned as Trump’s transportation secretary.

The events at a certain point made it impossible for me to continue because of my personal values and philosophy. I came as an immigrant to this country. I feel good about this country. The transfer of power is something that I believe in. I believe in democracy. And so I was – it was a decision that I made on my own,” she said.

House January 6 Committee on Witness Tampering and the Trump White House Investigation of a Pro-Trump Website (The Donald dot win)

During hearings this summer, the House January 6 committee said they were concerned about witness tampering. CNN has reported that witness was Hutchinson.

“I remember looking at Mark, and I said ‘Mark, he can’t possibly think we’re going to pull this off. That call was crazy. And he looked at me and just started shaking his head. He knows it’s over, and he said, ‘No, you know, he knows it’s over. He knows he lost. Hutchinson told the committee that they would keep trying.

Two sources familiar with the situation tell CNN that Hutchinson has discussed the episode with the Justice Department. CNN reported in January that she became a key witness in the House probe after cooperating with the Justice Department.

“The President said … something to the effect of, ‘I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out. We have to figure it out. Hutchinson didn’t want people to know that we lost.

The committee states that on January 6, a Secret Service agent texting, “With so many weapons found so far; you wonder how many are unknown.” Could be sporty after dark.”

“I got the base FIRED UP,” Miller texted Meadows on December 30, 2020, appearing to take credit for amplifying the violent rhetoric about January 6 that was circulating on the pro-Trump website The Donald dot win.

The Secret Service received online threats against the vice president that said he would be DEAD if he did not do the right thing, according to a lawmaker at the hearing.

Appointing Donald Trump to win the 2020 midterm elections: a committee hearing of his plan to declare victory on election night, and the impact of his actions on the judiciary

During the campaign, Trump planned to launch his accusations on election night. The votes were still being counted, so he declared victory. Cheney said that President Trump had a plan to announce the election fraudulent and stolen before Election Day.

After their conversation on November 3, 2020, Jacob drafted a memo to Short, which the committee said it obtained from the National Archives and presented for the first time on Thursday.

According to the memo, it’s essential that the Vice President isn’t perceived by the public as having decided questions about electoral votes before fully developing the facts.

The committee found some emails from Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, that said that Trump should declare victory even if the election ended in a tie.

The panel did not include her testimony as part of their last hearing before the election because committee members had interviewed her last month.

She was not present because the panel used testimony from other witnesses who were interviewed since the committee’s most recent hearing.

The House January 6 committee voted to subpoena him after laying bare his depraved efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and his dereliction of duty as his mob invaded the US Capitol.

The developments that could hurt Trump the most were off stage. The legal thicket surrounding the ex-president, who has not been charged with a crime, and the distance left to run for efforts toaccount for his chaotic exit from power and presidency, reflect how much work still needs to be done.

While Trump has frequently defied gathering investigative storms, and ever since launching his presidential campaign in 2015 has repeatedly confounded predictions of his imminent demise, there’s a sense that he’s sliding into an ever-deeper legal hole.

As the House select committee hearing went on, the Supreme Court sent word from across the road that it’s got no interest in getting sucked into Trump’s bid to derail a Justice Department probe into classified material he kept at Mar-a-Lago.

The court turned down his emergency request to intervene, which could have delayed the case, without explaining why. No dissents were noted from Trump’s conservative justices who he thinks owe him a debt of loyalty.

The Case for Obstruction of Justice from the Ex-President’s Second Impeachment, and the Corrupt Claims at a Florida State Courthouse

For all the political drama that surrounds the continuing revelations over one of the darkest days in modern American history on January 6, it’s the showdown over classified documents that appears to represent the ex-President’s most clear cut and immediate threat of true criminal exposure.

While television stations broadcasted the committee hearing, there were more news reports that stated that the ex- President could face even more legal problems from the Justice Department investigation. The DOJ’s criminal probe has the power to indict even if it is not a crime.

Trump’s team has been keeping tabs on those testifying before the grand jury, and even foots the legal bill for a number of Trump’s aides who have appeared. Some think the transcripts will shed more light on the investigation.

CNN reported late on Wednesday that an employee of the Trump Organization had told the FBI that the ex-president ordered the removal of boxes from a storage room at his Florida club after being subpoenaed for classified information. The FBI also has surveillance footage showing a staffer moving the boxes.

The development is troubling since it might mean a pattern of deception that plays into a possible obstruction of justice charge. When the FBI showed up at the resort in August they told a judge there could be evidence of obstruction.

David Schoen, who was Trump’s defense lawyer in the second impeachment, told CNN that even though the details of what occurred at Mar-a-Lago raised troubling questions, they weren’t necessarily a case of obstruction of justice.

But he added: “If President Trump or someone acting on behalf knew … that they didn’t have the right to have these documents in their possession, the documents belonged to the government or the American people, et cetera, and knowingly disobeyed the subpoena, knowingly hid the documents or kept the documents from being found, then that could theoretically constitute obstruction.”

On Thursday morning, New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a state court to block the Trump Organization from moving assets and continuing to perpetrate what she has alleged in a civil lawsuit is a decades-long fraud.

“There is every reason to believe that the Defendants will continue to engage in similar fraudulent conduct right up to trial unless checked by order of this Court,” James wrote in an application for a preliminary injunction linked to her $250 million suit against Trump, his three eldest children and his firm.

The DOJ investigation, led by Smith, is examining much of the conduct cited in the select committee, and it looks like federal investigators are already looking into some of it.

Those aren’t even the only probes connected to Trump. There is also the matter of yet another investigation in Georgia over attempts by the former President and his allies to overturn the election in a crucial 2020 swing state.

On the Unselect Committee of December 6, 2016: The Case for a Subpoena on the Ex-President Donald J. Trump

As always, Trump came out fighting on Thursday, one of those days when the seriousness of a crisis he is facing can often be gauged by the vehemence of the rhetoric he uses to respond.

The select committee voted to subpoena the former President, but Taylor Budowich didn’t like it.

“Pres Trump will not be intimidate(d) by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions. Trump will sweep the Midterms and America First will be restored, according to Budowich.

Then the former President weighed in on his Truth Social network with another post that failed to answer the accusations against him, but that was clearly designed to stir a political reaction from his supporters.

“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST,’” Trump wrote.

But any effort to follow a similar path if Trump refuses to testify could take months and involve protracted legal battles. It is uncertain if the Justice Department would consider this a good investment given the state of its own January 6 probe. It is a good chance that the committee will be swept into history with the Republicans expected to take over the House majority following the elections.

Observers will see the dramatic vote to target Trump as yet another theatrical flourish in a set that often resembled a television courtroom drama due to the slim chance of him complying with a congressional subpoena.

Republican vice chair Liz Cheney said the investigation was no longer just about what happened on January 6 but about the future.

The Wyoming lawmaker was defeated in her congressional race by a Trump supporter and said that she won’t be returning to congress with every effort to excuse or justify the conduct of the former President.

A professor of history and public affairs at the Ivy League school, Zelizer is a CNN political analyst. He is the author and editor of 24 books, including, “The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment.” There’s a twitter account forjulianzelizer. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Take a look at the opinion on CNN.

The President’s Campaign for the 2020 Presidential Election, January 6, 2021, was Not a One-Off, Unexpected Day of Chaos

The bipartisan panel sought in public hearings to reveal the full context of what occurred that day and who was responsible.

Unlike the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974, one of the most distinctive elements of Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election is that so much of it happened in broad daylight.

Emails show that President Trump knew there was voter fraud but continued to tout the fraudulent numbers, Judge Carter wrote. He added in a footnote that the suit contained language saying Mr. Trump was relying on information provided to him by others.

Yet the committee managed to fill out the story in very important ways, providing shocking evidence and details as to how the events of those months were even more dangerous than we understood at the time.

The committee demonstrated that January 6 wasn’t some kind of one-off, unexpected day of chaos where things spiraled out of control. It was premeditated.

The 845-page report – based on 1,000-plus interviews, documents collected including emails, texts, phone records and a year and a half of investigation – includes allegations that Trump “oversaw” the legally dubious effort to put forward fake slates of electors in seven states he lost, arguing that the evidence shows he actively worked to “transmit false Electoral College ballots to Congress and the National Archives” despite concerns among his lawyers that doing so could be unlawful.

Steve Bannon told a group of friends that the former president would claim victory, which did not mean he would be victorious, but that he would. If Biden is the winner, Trump will do crazy shit, said Bannon.

After being told repeatedly by election and legal advisers that the claims of fraud were bullshit, Trump and his inner group moved forward with reckless abandon.

On the day of the “Stop the Steal” rally, January 6, 2021, Trump knew that the protesters were armed and dangerous but did nothing to stop them. He was stopped by the secret service because he wanted to go to Capitol Hill. The former president even lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to steer the wheel of the car when he was told he couldn’t go, according to former aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Trump and his attorneys, such as Rudy Giuliani, probed to see if various state officials would do their bidding. In November of 2020, the speaker of the Arizona state legislature, who was a supporter of the president, received a phone call from Giuliani and Trump asking him to call the legislature to invalidate the results of the election. The president’s lawyer John Eastman, who had written the road map for their attempted election steal, pressured Pence’s aides to have him reject the results.

The January 6 Committee: Remembering When President Trump Came to Washington, Wrecked and Teased: Recaping a Day of Truth

Continuum: January 6 was just one piece of a much larger story. The panel is referred to as the January 6 committee, but in reality it’s a committee that will investigate the campaign to overturn the election. This reframing is essential to understanding the months between November 2020 and January 2021.

To convey his state of mind, committee members made clear that Trump was not “duped” or “irrational,” as Cheney said Thursday. He knew exactly what he was doing. After the Supreme Court rejected the former president’s lawsuit, Trump was heard saying he did not want people to know we lost.

On January 6, Trump ignored many warnings of violence. He was going to lead the troops to Capitol Hill. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland reminded viewers that he sat passively, watching television, as the attacks against Congress unfolded and as staunch allies pleaded with him to call off the troops. It is not that Trump didn’t act on January 6; it is that he didn’t want to. “Can you believe this?” Pelosi was heard saying to Thompson that day.

The committee wanted to tell the committee and the general public that the danger isn’t over in 2022. At the end of our final hearing there will be a clear danger to our electoral system and to democratic institutions. This is not ancient history we’re talking about; this is a continuing threat.” That continued threat exists on many levels. Republican candidates in the upcoming elections have taken to denying the truth about the election.

In states like Pennsylvania and Arizona, where Republicans are a big part of politics, Republicans who subscribe to this agenda are running for secretaries of state, which will play an important role in overseeing future elections. And, finally, the former president remains the top contender for the Republican nomination in 2024.

During her opening remarks on Thursday, Cheney made this point clear when she asked why Americans should assume that “those institutions won’t falter next time” if the wrong people were in positions of power the next time around. The January 6 story was a bunch of officials who were Republicans who weren’t going along with the scheme. She reminded the nation that our institutions “only hold when men and women of good faith” make sure that they are strong regardless of the political consequences.

Cheney said the committee is considering making criminal referrals to the Justice Department, but it will be up to prosecutors to decide what, if anything, will result. We will find out if Congress can complete work on the Electoral Count Reform Act, which was supposed to make some of the mechanisms that Trump was counting on impervious to future damage. If voters decide to send a clear message to Washington that messing with democracy will not be tolerated, we will watch as the election goes on. January 6 is not a major issue for most of the campaigns.

The committee was able to unpack the dark days after the election. There is clear detail in front of our eyes. Our biggest mystery is if we will close our eyes and just move forward without demanding accountability, justice and reform.

A Special Panel Investigating the 2020 Insurrection to Bin the White House: Former President Donald Riggleman and the Assisting Campaign of Mark Meadows

Former President Donald J. Trump signed a document swearing under oath that information in a Georgia lawsuit he filed challenging the results of the 2020 election was true even though his own lawyers had told him it was false, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday.

Donald Trump was at the forefront of America’s political universe since he descended the escalator to Neil Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World”. But at least one former congressman believes the continued fixation on the 45th president is now a distraction. He is only one part of the story now that Trumpism has grown bigger than him.

“The information war moves at the speed of electrons, not at the speed of interviews. That’s it. A new world has been created, and we are in it. “The committee did a great job, but we have to move faster. We have to be more aware of how data can help any investigation into these types of activities when it comes to domestic terrorism or the radicalization pipeline.”

Riggleman, a conservative who left the Republican Party after he was primaried out of office in 2020 for officiating a same-sex wedding, had asked the committee for a budget of $3.2 million for his digital sleuthing, but he says he was allocated just a fraction of that.

Still, he was granted a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into not just the January 6 attack. He believes he identified the central player in the insurrection, MarkMeadows, a former chief of staff to Trump. The special committee was given over 2,319 text messages from the election to Biden that show how deep of a conspiracy there is in the Republican Party.

The panel has begun to make available transcripts of witness interviews related to the false slate of electors and the campaign to overturn the 2020 election results in certain states. DOJ has also received all of Meadows’ text messages from the committee.

The DOJ investigation into the insurrection is being overseen by special counsel Jack Smith and he sent a letter requesting all of the information from the panel’s investigation to CNN.

The committee is in a crucial week. At the panel’s final public meeting, committee members voted to refer former President Donald Trump to the DOJ on at least four criminal charges. The panel is slated to release its full final report on Wednesday.

With the panel’s report public and witness interview transcripts trickling out on a daily basis, we’re getting a new glimpse into how these obscure figures played an outsize role in the inquiry. Some of them even provided information that will be useful to the ongoing criminal probes by the Justice Department and state prosecutors in Georgia, who are investigating Trump’s election schemes.

The investigation of Hutchinson’s actions against the Save America PAC in Elections LLC, an attorney practice that Fokker sued during the 2016 presidential campaign

But whether the department brings charges will depend on whether the facts and the evidence support a prosecution, Garland, who will make the ultimate call on charging decisions, has said.

Elections LLC, a political law practice Passantino and other Trump lawyers founded after he left the Trump White House, has received regular payments from Save America PAC and other Trump-backed groups, according to FEC filings. The Save America PAC distributions to the firm for legal consulting total more than $150,000 in 2021, and about $275,000 in 2022. The firm has worked for Republican candidates in the past.

When asked if there was a lot of pressure on Hutchinson, the committee member said that she was told to say she did not remember anything. That is pretty serious stuff.

The committee has accused several members of Trump’s orbit of trying to obstruct their investigation.

Passantino pointed out it’s not uncommon for people to change lawyers “because their interests or strategies change,” according to his statement. He also said political committees sometimes cover client fees “at the client’s request.”

In response to an accusation from the committee that he also shared her testimony with other lawyers and the press even when she told him not to, he said, “External communications made on Ms. Hutchinson’s behalf while I was her counsel were made with her express authorization.”

Passantino acknowledged in his statement that he was on a leave of absence from the firm, and that his biography had been removed from the website. That firm, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, said on Tuesday it was not involved in the situation and Hutchinson wasn’t a client.

Report on the Mueller Investigation into the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago Attacks on President Donald Trump and Attorney General Relativity

Then on Monday, in the executive summary of the final report, the committee revisited the issue in its handoff of the investigation to the Justice Department.

“When the witness raised concerns with her lawyer about that approach,” according to the summary, the lawyer said, “They don’t know what you know, [witness]. You can recall a few of these things. So you saying ‘I don’t recall’ is an entirely acceptable response to this.”

The lawyer told the client that the issue would cast a negative light on President Trump. We don’t want to go there. The report said the people don’t want to talk about it.

At the committee’s final public hearing, Lofgren said: “The witness believed this was an effort to affect her testimony, and we are concerned that these efforts may have been a strategy to prevent the Committee from finding the truth.”

Lawyers must follow extensive ethics guidelines as part of their profession, including avoiding conflicts of interest that could compromise their representation of a client. According to legal ethics experts, a lawyer swaying their client’s testimony in a way that wouldn’t be entirely truthful could be looked at as possible obstruction of an investigation.

This year, Trump’s Save America PAC has made payments to several law firms representing witnesses in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigation. An issue only arises if the lawyer doesn’t follow the client’s wishes, legal experts and professional rules say.

The report also said the committee believed a White House staffer Anthony Ornato “gave testimony consistent with the false account” in a book written by Mark Meadows, downplaying Trump’s wish to go to the Capitol on January 6.

“The public can ultimately make its own assessment of these issues when it reviews the Committee transcripts and can compare the accounts of different witnesses and the conduct of counsel,” the summary previewed.

Both Hutchinson and the White House employee testified about the Ornato discussion, according to the committee summary. Ornato stated that he was unaware of the President’s anger, and he did not recall either communication.

The committee investigators described how Trump campaign and Republican National Committee fundraising pitches containing false claims of a stolen election ultimately raised over $250 million but were met internally with some resistance.

Between Election Day and the attack on election officials on January 6, Trump and his associates targeted at least 200 election officials in at least four states, according to the report.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, has said the panel has evidence that members of the Trump family and inner circle – including Kimberly Guilfoyle – personally benefited from money that was raised based on the former president’s false election claims, but the panel has never gone as far to say a financial crime has been committed.

The committee members, including Thompson, felt the depositions were the property of the committee and the DOJ initially asked for all of the transcripts.

The panel’s transcript should provide new information about the DOJ criminal investigation into January 6.

Various Republican lawmakers have sought to discredit the select committee’s work since its inception and have argued that the panel has not addressed the security failures that led to the US Capitol breach. Five House Republicans were subpoenaed by the committee, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and did not cooperate with the investigation. The panel took the unprecedented step of referring the four returning members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee.

McCarthy has vowed to hold hearings next year on the security failures that led to the Capitol breach and has called on the select committee to preserve all of its records and transcripts.

The 2020 House Select Committee on Investigating Corrupt Election Practices. XI. The Recommendation of a Bipartisan Panel on Changing the 2020 Presidential Election

The recommendation is among the conclusions of the panel’s final report, a comprehensive overview of the bipartisan panel’s findings on how Trump and his allies sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, released late Thursday evening.

The chairman of the committee said on Monday that he has confidence in the committee’s work which will help provide a road map to justice, as well as the institutions responsible for ensuring justice under the law.

There were a number of attempts to call or text state or local officials, as well as 125 social media posts by Trump or senior aides targeting state officials.

Trump “spearheaded outreach aimed at numerous officials in States he lost but that had GOP-led legislatures, including in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona,” the report says. He didn’t win any of those states.

On January 2, 2021, in a call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the president asked the Secretary of State to deliver him a second term even though he hadn’t seen any evidence of election fraud.

Joshua Findlay, the second associate general counsel, recounted how the core team tried to hand off the scheme to the more fringe Trump lawyers, while fielding concerns from activists who were recruited to be fake electors.

The committee wrote that Eastman received a call from the White House switchboard, and the call lasted 23 minutes, according to Eastman’s phone records. Eastman’s two-page memo discussed various ways to ensure “President Trump is re-elected,” even though by then, he had been projected to lose the election, according to the committee.

The panel zeroes in on the section of the Constitution that states an individual who has taken an oath to support the US Constitution but has “engaged in an insurrection” or given “aid or comfort to the enemies of the Constitution” can be disqualified from office. The former president and others were referred to the department of justice for helping or aiding an insurrection.

It calls on congressional committees of jurisdiction to create a “formal mechanism” for evaluating whether those individuals violate that section of the 14th Amendment should be barred from future federal or state office.

The select committee wants the lawyers involved in the effort to change the election to be held accountable.

The panel wrote that the courts and barDisciplinary bodies are responsible for overseeing the legal profession in the states and the District of Columbia.

The report even calls on Congress to amend statutes and consider the severity of penalties that deter individuals from efforts to obstruct, influence or impede the Joint Session of Congress that certifies election results. Statutes of federal penalties for some types of threats against election workers need to be strengthened.

The panel was able to get over a thousand witnesses to testify, but it was hard to get cooperation from everyone it wanted to speak to. The House should have a cause of action that it could take to enforce its subpoenas in federal court, according to the report.

The panel calls on Congress to pass an overhaul of the 1887 Electoral Count Act aimed at making it harder to overturn a certified presidential election – the first legislative response to the insurrection and Trump’s relentless pressure campaign to stay in power.

The Committee on Investigating the Investigation of the 2016 NBC Superconductor Associated with the ‘Chavez’ Controversy’

The panel says it also has the evidence to refer Eastman on the obstruction charge, and it names him as a co-conspirator in other alleged criminal activity lawmakers have gathered evidence on.

The committee outlines 17 findings from its investigation that underpin its reasoning for criminal referrals, including that Trump knew the fraud allegations he was pushing were false and continued to amplify them anyway.

It notes that Trump’s top allies, including those who testified before the committee, acknowledged they found no proof to back up the former president’s claims.

“Ultimately, even Rudolph Giuliani and his legal team acknowledged that they had no definitive evidence of election fraud sufficient to change the election outcome,” it adds, referring to Trump’s then-personal attorney.

Trump campaign’s deputy director of communications and research Zach Parkinson told investigators that reviews for accuracy were limited to “questions concerning items such as time and location.”

The RNC did eventually tone down some messages, which the committee suggests shows “the RNC knew that President’s Trump’s claims about winning the election were baseless” and made “changes to fundraising copy that seemingly protected the RNC from legal exposure,” according to investigators.

According to interviews conducted by the committee, RNC lawyers were told not to use the termrigged. Several examples of fundraising appeals were obtained by the panel that were toned down to be less inflammatory.

Donald Trump laughed at a claim by his election lawyer that foreign powers interfered in the election, according to a White House communications director.

Powell made a number of false statements during the press conference, including the allegation that voting machines from the company featured software created by the Clinton Foundation in order to swing election results in Chavez’s favor.

“While she was speaking, the President muted his speakerphone and laughed at Powell, telling the others in the room, ‘This does sound crazy, doesn’t it?’” The report is accurate.

The committee states that as the riot unfolded, Trump resisted attempts by his staffers to remove his supporters, but did not call for security assistance.

“President Trump did not contact a single top national security official during the day. Not at the Pentagon, nor at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I., the Capitol Police Department, or the D.C. Mayor’s office,” the committee writes. “As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn’t even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe.”

The committee was told by Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, that he had a reaction to Trump. The Capitol of the United States of America is currently being attacked. And there isn’t anything? No call? Nothing? Zero?

The committee says that the White House photographer wasn’t allowed to take photographs of the President after 4 p.m.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html

The iceberg that was: uncovering Donald Trump’s campaign fundraising messaging falsely during the January 6 rally, an insider’s view

Brad Parscale, who was once Trump’s campaign manager, told the organizers of the rally that he felt bad for helping the president win, the report states.

On the night of January 6, the last known call Trump made, he said, can you believe this? a former White House aide told the January 6 committee.

Ivanka Trump, a senior White House adviser at the time, told the select committee her father was “disappointed and surprised” by the attack on the Capitol.

She could not give any instances of the president talking about the injured or dead on January 6 when pressed by investigators.

The story of January 6 has largely focused on a cast of prominent characters, including former President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle who have become household names like his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and his White House chief of staff MarkMeadows.

But those with notable names were merely the tip of the iceberg for the January 6 committee, which spent 18 months investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. They interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses behind closed doors, including scores of Trump aides who were hardly ever in the headlines.

The committee’s dive into the hundreds of millions of dollars that were made in campaign fundraising off of Trump’s bogus election fraud claims includes the story of a young RNC staffer who was fired after he pushed back on some of the assertions being made in fundraising emails.

The RNC and Trump campaign tried to walk the line between not putting themselves in potential legal jeopardy by using false claims, according to the digital staffer who spoke to the committee.

His boss told the committee he wasn’t sure why he was fired three weeks after the election. However, it came after Katz repeatedly questioned the direction leadership was taking in Republicans’ post-election fundraising messaging.

The first confrontation – corroborated by multiple witnesses – came in a meeting with the entirety of the Trump digital team, where Katz grilled a higher-up on how the campaign was saying it wanted to stop the count in several battleground states while keep it going in another.

In the second episode of the report he refused to write an email saying Trump had won in Pennsylvania, which was a sign that the election was going to be for Biden.

During the summer hearings, the panel revealed that Trump talked to her directly about the plan for a group of states to submit alternate slates of electors, but her full transcript reveals more details about what was shared between the RNC.

The Trump Campaign Against the Fake Alternative Electors Proposal in Six Little Known Insiders: Evidence from State Sensitivities

“We should baldly assert” that state legislators “have the constitutional right to substitute their judgment for a certified majority of their constituents” if that prevents socialism, he said.

The messages highlight how Trump allies and White House staffers appeared to know that their efforts to overturn the election could be problematic early on but believed they were justified if the plan was successful in keeping Trump in office.

Haley added, “[i]ndependent of the fraud – or really along with that argument – Harrisburg [Pennsylvania], Madison [Wisconsin], and They don’t have to sit idly by and submit themselves to rule by Beijing and Paris because conservative radio hosts can apply pressure on the weak kneed legislators.

Haley then sent McEntee names and contact information for state legislators in six states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan. The report says that Trump called several of the state officials.

Two Trump campaign officials who were already of interest in the Justice Department gave helpful testimony to the committee.

The Justice Department is seeking information about some people. The testimony of others showed how the Trump campaign was willing to go ahead with the fake electors plot even as its lawyers sought to distance themselves from it.

The plot was connected to the former president through testimony given by Findlay. The official told him that the president wanted the campaign to look into the alternative electors proposal, and that he was tasked by another campaign official to investigate the feasibility of the plan.

When it was determined that Giuliani would lead the attack, Findlay believed it was because Trump wanted Giuliani to lead it. Findlay testified that Trump campaign leadership backed off of the plan a few days after he had been told to look into it, with top lawyers bailing on the idea.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/24/politics/january-6-little-known-insiders/index.html

A Little Insider’s View of the McCallum Campaign in the January 6, 2016 Presidential enveloping session of the Senate Intelligence Committee

The role played by Roman – who declined to answer many of committee’s questions in his testimony, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights – was fleshed out by communications handed over to the committee by Sinners. They showed Roman was organizing information tracking the effort.

In order to understand what was going on in the White House and Trump campaign war rooms, the committee looked to the junior staffers who were key observers.

The Trump campaign tried to get the support of a lot of state legislators for the replacement of state electors.

Though McCallum does not appear to have had a leadership role in the operation, nor was she directly quoted by the committee, footnotes from the report show that she turned over several text messages, campaign spreadsheets and even a script for calling state legislators.

She gave the committee information on the campaign efforts to push the fake electors plan. Her notes say that campaign staff tried contacting over 190 Republican state legislators in Arizona, Georgia and Michigan alone.

The committee was unable to serve a subpoena on the operatives who said in the message, “This has got to be the cover a book I write one day.” Only 3 states did it since 1876.

In another message the operative, who was McCallum’s supervisor, celebrated after reporters published a recorded voicemail McCallum left on a state legislators’ phone.

He continued, telling McCallum that “you used the awesome power of the presidency to scare a state rep into getting a statewide newspaper to deliver your talking points.”

The long delay in sending National Guard troops to the US Capitol on January 6 was among the most glaring security failures that day. Previously unreported testimony revealed for the first time in the committee’s final report shows that one commander on the ground had his forces ready to respond hours before they were given approval to actually do so.

Hunter provided a detailed list of his own actions that day, including the start of his troops to respond after he heard shots being fired at the US Capitol.

Hunter told the committee at that point that they have to move because they’re going to be requesting the DC National Guard.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/24/politics/january-6-little-known-insiders/index.html

Comment on “Electoral Fraud in North Carolina” by M. Mark Meadows and M. D. McCarthy, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, and State Bureau of Investigation

The delay in the response was due to confusion and a lack of communication between senior military leaders and commanders on the ground.

The report says that Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy did not know that he had already been given authority to make his own decision on what to do with those forces.

They also did not occur in a vacuum. Trump could have ordered the military response at any point, but he chose not to.

The prosecutors said in the memo that US Secret Service records showed that Mark Meadows did not travel to North Carolina for six months in September 2020 and November 2020, and did not request any travel leave. State law doesn’t require a federal government servant to reside in North Carolina in order for them to vote in the state.

There is a voter record showing that Meadows registered on September 22, 2020. He was able to vote by mail in the general election. He was removed from the voting rolls in North Carolina because he was registered to vote in more than one state.

The memo also notes that both Mark and Debra Meadows declined to be interviewed by the State Bureau of Investigation, which conducted the inquiry into the fraud allegations.

The key facts that led to the decision not to charge the Meadowses were (1) they were engaged in public service in DC, and (2) they signed a yearlong residency exception under state law.

By the time the office received the report it was apparent that the statutes of limitations had expired for false information on an election form. There was a low likelihood of success for the prosecutors to prove that theMeadows had committed a felony by knowing to false information on their voter forms.

Stein said that the things that happened on January 6th aren’t relevant to the allegations of voter fraud against theMeadows.

Report of the House Select Committee on Sessions with the ‘Two-Ways Before the Insurrection’, by R. F. Guilfoyle

The new release is part of a steady stream of transcript drops from the House select committee in recent days, complementing the release of its sweeping 845-page report.

Trump Jr. was a high-profile surrogate for the Trump campaign and was among the most prominent supporters of his father to push a false narrative about the election results in the period between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021. Trump Jr. was with the former president backstage outside the White House before his speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse.

She is a key witness to the events leading up to the insurrection on January 6. Guilfoyle was with Trump that morning and was backstage with the former president and other members of the family during the “Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse. She was also one of the guest speakers at the rally.

When Grisham met with the committee previously, she told reporters that she “cooperated fully.”

The committee had a meeting with Mastriano, who pushed the former president’s election lies. He was the GOP gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania at the time.

His attorney told CNN that he had given some documents to the panel after being subpoenaed. He was also interviewed by the FBI last year about the planning around the January 6 rally and the breach of the US Capitol, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, after photos emerged of him on Capitol grounds that day.

Reply to Meadows: Calling the Vice President on January 1, 2021, After the U.S. Capitol Attack and Leaving the House

As the House majority prepares to change to Republican control on Tuesday, the panel has dropped its transcript.

Investigators ran through some of the items they had hoped to ask Meadows about if he had appeared, including a December 2020 email from Meadows stating, “Rudy was put in charge. That was the President’s decision,” according to the committee transcript.

In a transcript with Alexandra Preate, who worked as a spokeswoman for Bannon, the committee asked about their text exchanges. The two had a conversation about the 1 million people that were around the Capitol after Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel told the committee that the former president called her on January 1, 2021, and asked her about her relationship with then-Vice President Mike Pence.

He asked what I knew about the Vice President, but I said I didn’t know him very well, according to a transcript.

I can’t recall if the role Pence would play in certifying the Electoral College vote was discussed. Following the US Capitol attack, Trump told her that the Vice President had the authority to refuse to accept the electors, but she didn’t know the legal term.

In the lead-up to January 6, McDaniel testified that she did not know that the alternate slates of electors were being considered for anything other than contingent electors in case legal challenges changed state election results. She added she was not privy to a lot of those discussions and that she was going through ankle surgery around the time of the Capitol attack.

He said that the RNC worked closely with Clark but that after Giuliani took over Trumps legal efforts he didn’t really reach out to the RNC.

Morgan told the House committee the ask was made via an associate of Giuliani’s, Maria Ryan, and that it was for $20,000 per day. He declined to answer further questions about why the campaign did not support the request.

Matthew Morgan, who was general counsel for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, described to the committee how the campaign handled requests by Giuliani and his team – which took over the campaign’s litigation strategy in mid-November 2020 – to bring on outside attorneys and firms.

“Rudy Giuliani himself, he requested an engagement letter, and he requested through a surrogate what was viewed as a large amount of compensation,” Morgan said, according to a transcript of an April interview that was made public Sunday.

The Trump campaign wasn’t willing to pay that number when I presented it to them. and I relied on then Justin to tell me if we could do such an engagement letter and then it never materialized.”

The White House staff had differing accounts of how the president reacted after learning he wouldn’t be taken to the US Capitol.

When Engel returned to the White House after Trump’s January 6 speech, he stopped by the office shared by former White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato and William “Beau” Harrison, the special assistant to the president for operations.

The President asked about where I was going after bringing it to our attention. Is this going back to the White House? And Bob said, yeah, you know, we’re going back to the White House,” Harrison told committee investigators in an August 2022 interview, according to the transcript.

“And at that point I have a specific memory of Bobby telling both Tony and myself, as we were in the room, no one else was in the room, that the President almost kind of shrugged it off,” Harrison told the committee. He just moved on.

Harrison told congressional investigators he had never heard of a heated argument in the vehicle until he saw Hutchinson’s testimony on television. If there had been a description, I would have known about it and heard about it.

When Hutchinson testified, Harrison got a call from Ornato. Ornato said, essentially, “Can you believe this?” The transcript says that “Where is this story even coming from?”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/politics/january-6-transcript-release-latest/index.html

Fifth Amendment and the Chesebro email correspondence with Biden’s campaign against the Clinton-Biden 2020 presidential campaign (Washington-Independent analysis)

Chesebro invoked his Fifth amendment right against self incriminating himself and attorneyclient privilege when he was questioned about his role in the plan to put forward Trump voters in states that Biden won.

He did not confirm to the investigators that he was the person listed on the emails, that were obtained by the committee.

He said that he would take the Fifth if it were related to the subject matter.