The 2020 Congressional Subpoena Report on “Active Promotion of Election Fraud on the Former President” by Ms. Giuliani
In its initial subpoena, the committee alleges that Giuliani “actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.” The subpoena said that Giuliani was in contact with members of Congress about delayed or reversed results of the 2020 election.
There were petitions filed in court requesting that Gingrich and Flynn testify before a special grand jury that’s been seated to aid her investigation.
Flynn didn’t immediately respond to email and phone messages seeking comment, and his lawyer also didn’t immediately return an email seeking comment. Gingrich referred questions to his attorney who did not respond. Herschmann could not be reached immediately.
Willis has said she plans to take a monthlong break from public activity in the case leading up to the November midterm election, which is one month from Saturday.
Each of the petitions filed Friday seeks to have the potential witnesses appear in November after the election. But the process for securing testimony from out-of-state witnesses sometimes takes a while, so it appears Willis is putting the wheels in motion for activity to resume after her self-imposed pause.
The petition for Gingrich’s testimony relies on “information made publicly available” by the U.S. House committee that’s investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A Connected Campaign to Overturn Elections in Georgia, in the Light of a Paper by Flynn Gingrich and Sidney Powell
He was working for the campaign before going to work for the Justice Department. And while at the department’s civil division, he spent some of his time helping Clark with his attempts to overturn the election, “despite the fact that election-related matters are not part of the Civil portfolio,” the summary says.
Gingrich was also involved in a plan to have Republican fake electors sign certificates falsely stating that Trump had won the state and that they were the state’s official electors even though Democrat Joe Biden had won, the petition says.
The petition seeking Flynn’s testimony says he appeared in an interview on conservative cable news channel Newsmax and said Trump “could take military capabilities” and place them in swing states and “basically re-run an election in each of those states.”
According to news reports, he met with Trump, Sidney Powell and others at the White House in December, 2020 to discuss topics such as invoke martial law, seizing voting machines and appointing Powell as special counsel to investigate the 2020 election.
She wrote that Herschmann had multiple conversations with people associated with the Trump Campaign in an effort to influence the results of the 2020 elections in Georgia. Specifically, he had a “heated conversation” with Eastman “concerning efforts in Georgia,” she added.
She said Penrose worked with Powell in late 2020 and early 2021 on cyber investigations, operations and forensics.
He also communicated with Powell and others regarding an agreement to hire data solutions firm SullivanStrickler to copy data and software from voting system equipment in Coffee County, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, as well as in Michigan and Nevada, Willis wrote. Penrose wasn’t able to respond to an email or phone message that asked for comment.
According to a petition he submitted, he was part of an attempt to make an elections worker out to be guilty of election fraud in Fulton County. He could not be reached for comment.
The House Select Committee on 2021 January 6 Insurrection: Report on Trump, Cheney, and the Mueller’s Last Requirement
Georgia has special grand juries that investigate complex cases with large number of witnesses and potential logistical concerns. They can compel evidence and subpoena witnesses for questioning and, unlike regular grand juries, can also subpoena the target of an investigation to appear before it.
When the investigation is done the special grand jury can make a recommendation. It’s then up to the district attorney to decide whether to ask a regular grand jury for an indictment.
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has concluded that former President Donald Trump was ultimately responsible for the insurrection, laying out for the public and the Justice Department a trove of evidence for why he should be prosecuted for multiple crimes.
Since the last committee hearing on January 6, the panel has obtained more than a million records from the Secret Service, and they shared some of that information during Thursday’s hearing.
The committee’s leaders argued that Trump was at the center of efforts to overturn the 2020 election that led to the violence of the insurrection, and as a result they needed Trump’s testimony to tell the complete story of January 6.
“We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion,” said Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the panel’s top Republican. Every American has a right to the answers and we can act now to protect our republic.
The need for the committee to hear from Donald Trump goes beyond fact- finding. This was a question about accountability to the American people. He must be held accountable. He has to answer for what he’s done.
Lawyers for Trump had accepted service of the subpoena from the committee as of October 26, according to sources familiar with the matter. Trump has criticized the committee, but he has not said if he will comply with the subpoena.
That’s because if Republicans take back control of the House, which they’re favored to do, the January 6 committee as it’s currently constructed will cease to exist – giving the panel less than three months to issue a final report of its findings.
During the hearing, the panel labeled the footage as showing lawmakers at an “undisclosed location.” It has been known for a while that senior congressional leaders from both parties took refuge at Fort McNair when the Capitol was overrun.
The footage shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top officials working the phones and coordinating with Trump Cabinet members and other officials to secure the resources needed to quell the insurrection and secure the Capitol.
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 that the pro-Trump rioters were breaking the law because of the President’s instigation.
Elaine Chao, who resigned from her post as Trump’s secretary of Transportation a day after the insurrection, spoke in personal terms about her disgust toward the attack when she testified to the committee.
The events made it impossible for me to continue, due to my personal values and philosophy. I arrived in this country as an immigrant. I believe in this country. I believe in the peaceful transfer of power. I believe in democracy. And so I was – it was a decision that I made on my own,” she said.
On Thursday, the committee showed new video deposition from Hutchinson where she spoke to Meadows about Trump’s January 2021 call where he urged the Georgia secretary of state to “find” the votes he needed to win.
“I remember looking at Mark, and I said ‘Mark, he can’t possibly think we’re going to pull this off. It was crazy when that call was made. He shook his head when he looked at me. And he said, “He knows it’s over.” He knows he lost. We’re going to keep trying. The committee was told by Hutchinson.
Hutchinson also said that she witnessed a conversation between Meadows and Trump where he was furious the Supreme Court had rejected a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election result.
“The President said … something to the effect of, ‘I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. You should figure it out. We need to figure it out. I don’t want people to know that we lost,’” Hutchinson said.
While there are still questions surrounding erased text messages from Secret Service agents around the insurrection, the panel obtained messages and emails showing the agency receiving warnings before January 6, 2021, about the prospect of violence, as well as real-time reports of weapons in the crowd ahead of Trump’s speech at the Ellipse.
The committee subpoenaed the congressman in September of last year, and he handed over over over 2,000 text messages between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden’s inauguration. The text messages, which were obtained by CNN, reveal how top Republican Party officials, right-wing figures and even Trump’s family members discussed with Meadows what Trump should say and do after the election and in the middle of the insurrection.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said in Thursday’s hearing that that the Secret Service received alerts of online threats made against Vice President Mike Pence ahead of the Capitol insurrection, including that Pence would be “‘a dead man walking if he doesn’t do the right thing.’”
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Investigations of the Vice President’s Decay into Reionization and De-Demandation
The committee also revealed new evidence Thursday that Trump had devised a plan, well before any votes were counted, to declare victory no matter what the election results were.
The committee said it obtained a memo from the National Archives that it presented to Short for the first time on Thursday.
“It is essential that the Vice President not be perceived by the public as having decided questions concerning disputed electoral votes prior to the full development of all relevant facts,” the memo reads.
The new emails from Tom Fitton to Trump advisers were revealed by the committee. One email contains a draft statement for Trump to declare victory on Election Night.
Despite saying that they wanted to hear from Thomas, members of the panel downplayed her testimony and she was not expected to be a central part of the hearing that was solely focused on Trump.
But her absence was notable considering the panel did use testimony from several other high-profile witnesses who had been interviewed since the committee’s most recent hearing earlier this summer.
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.
There were developments that could hurt Donald Trump off stage. The legal thicket surrounding the ex- President, who has not been charged with a crime and is free of the rule of law, is extraordinary as are the distances that still need to be traveled to Account for his departure from power and presidency that constantly tested the rule of law.
Since launching his presidential campaign in 2015, a sense has been created that he is sliding into an ever deeper legal hole.
The Supreme Court didn’t want to be dragged into Trump’s effort 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. conservative justices who were elevated to the bench and who Trump believes owe him a debt of loyalty were not dissented.
Investigating a Multiple Obstruction to Justice Charge in the Ex-President’s First Impeachment Action: A New Injunction on a Classification Fraud
The showdown over classified documents is the most clear cut and immediate threat of true criminal exposure, as it represents the ex- President’s most clear cut and immediate threat of true criminal exposure.
While television stations beamed blanket coverage of the committee hearing, more news broke that hinted at further grave legal problems the ex-President could face from another Justice Department investigation – also into January 6. Unlike the House’s version, the DOJ’s criminal probe has the power to draw up indictments.
Smith has brought a number of Trump associates before a grand jury in Washington DC, including two former White House lawyers and 3 of Trump’s closest aides.
CNN’s Brown reported on Wednesday that a Trump employee had said that the ex- President ordered them to move boxes out of a basement storage room after his team received a subpoena for any classified documents. The FBI also has surveillance footage showing a staffer moving the boxes.
On the face of it, this development is troubling since it could suggest a pattern of deception that plays into a possible obstruction of justice charge. The FBI told the judge on the initial search warrant that there was evidence of obstruction at the resort.
The details of what happened at Mar-a-Lago raised troubling questions, but they didn’t amount to a case of obstruction of justice according to the attorney who was the defense lawyer in his second impeachment.
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.
Trump has branded the James probe as a stunt and denied wrongdoing. The Justice Department hasn’t charged the former President, nor anyone else in its investigation over the Capitol insurrection. The House select committee cannot bring criminal charges, although it is discussing whether to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department. The investigation of classified documents that were found during the FBI search of Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago is being described by the president as a witch hunt.
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.
The Unselect Committee Investigates Trump’s January 6, 2016 Subpoena for the Subsequent State of the House Intelligence Investigation
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 unanimous vote in the committee to subpoena the former President for documents and testimony was mocked by the first Trump spokesman.
“Pres Trump will not be intimidate(d) by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions. Trump-endorsed candidates will sweep the Midterms, and America First leadership & solutions will be restored,” Budowich wrote on Twitter.
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? The final moments of their last meeting, why did they wait? 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’s unclear whether the Justice Department would consider this a good investment, especially given the advanced state of its own January 6 probe. With Republicans expected to take the majority of the House in the upcoming election, there is a good chance the committee will be swept into history.
It’s likely that the dramatic vote to target the ex- President will be seen as a theatrical flourish in a set of slickly produced hearings that often resembled a television courtroom drama.
But the committee’s Republican vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, said the investigation was no longer just about what happened on January 6, but about the future.
The Wyoming lawmaker who lost her primary to a Trump-backed contender said, “We chip away at the foundation of our republic by every attempt to excuse or justify the conduct of the former President.”
“Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform Meadows and Trump of that. The Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornatos testimony questionable, even though he told them he did not remember.
“We’re in a position in the very near future to call the witnesses from the Secret Service back in for a few additional questions,” the California Democrat told CNN’s Pamela Brown on “CNN Newsroom,” explaining that the panel had wanted to “get through all the documentary evidence … over a million documents,” which they’ve now done.
In December of this year Ornato joined the White House Staff as the deputy chief of staff on a temporary assignment, and then returned to the Secret Service to run its training program.
The report details that the panel was ultimately unable to get Ornato to corroborate a bombshell moment during the public hearings, in which Hutchinson recalled Ornato describing Trump’s altercation with the head of his security detail when he was told he would not be taken to the Capitol. Hutchinson testified about the Ornato conversation to the committee, according to the summary. Ornato did not recall the communication, and he had no idea about the anger of the President.
A response to Lofgren’s complaint with the Select Committee on the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other extremist groups
Lofgren said Sunday that she couldn’t go any more into the situation after Rep. Pete Aguilar told the public that the committee was looking into a potential attempt to obstruct testimony related to the incident.
“We want to make sure that we’re getting the straight story. Some of the testimony received doesn’t seem to align with some of the documents, so we have a need to understand that better from them,” she said.
The committee gave Donald Trump more time to turn over documents it subpoenaed but gave no explanation as to why it granted the extension.
The committee also said it “received correspondence from the former President and his counsel in connection with the Select Committee’s subpoena” but did not provide additional information.
“The Select Committee is aware of multiple efforts by President Trump to contact Select Committee witnesses. The Department of Justice is aware of at least one of those circumstances,” according to the summary.
The broad document request even asked for all documents and communications relating or referring “in any way” to members of the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, or other extremist groups from September 1, 2020, to the present. 19 different categories are included in the panel’s document request.
The committee has not officially decided whom to refer to the Justice Department for prosecution and for what offenses, sources said. The four individuals who are among those under consideration, and whose names have not been previously reported, provide a window into the panel’s deliberations.
The criminal referrals would be symbolic, but committee members stressed that the move would be a way to document their views for the record.
Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said Thursday that committee members are expected to reach a decision on criminal referrals when members meet virtually on Sunday.
Sentence to Congress for Contempt of Congress Referred to the Subcommittee on Investigations of a Newly Indicted Senator from Maryland
“I think the more we looked at the body of evidence that we had collected, we just felt that while we’re not in the business of investigating people for criminal activities, we just couldn’t overlook some of them.”
The January 6 subcommittee is led by a democrat from Maryland and it is tasked with presenting recommendations on criminal referrals to the full committee. We are going to spell that out.
“The gravest offense in constitutional terms is the attempt to overthrow a presidential election and bypass the constitutional order,” Raskin told reporters. These statutory offenses support the seriousness and magnitude of that violent assault on America.
Raskin, along with Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Zoe Lofgren, both of California, and the panel’s vice chair GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, comprise the subcommittee.
The House committee voted to hold him in criminal contempt of Congress for not giving other documents that he had, and they referred the matter to the Justice Department. The Justice Department has declined to indict Meadows for evading his subpoena, given his high level position in the Trump West Wing and claims of executive privilege.
The panel handles the criminal referrals differently if they are referred for contempt of Congress.
“We obviously did contempt of Congress referrals earlier and there’s a whole statutory process for making that happen,” he said. We’ll explain our decisions in more detail because we want you to be aware of what we’re doing.
After a long court battle, the House select committee eventually received the 101 emails that were ordered to be turned over by David O. Carter, a judge in California.
The committee walked through the reasoning behind the legal theory that the White House were against, but the former President embraced it.
The former DOJ official was facing a criminal contempt of Congress referral because he refused to answer questions at a prior deposition. The referral was never sent to DOJ because on the day the committee voted on the contempt referral, Clark’s lawyer informed the committee that he planned to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions on the grounds it may incriminate him.
Clark made a terrible mistake by suggesting to the Justice Department to send a letter to election officials in battleground states telling them to overturn their results. The department believed there was problems with the results, according to the letter, which was created with the help of fellow Trump appointment Ken Klukowski.
The committee in particular zeroed in on the efforts of Rep. Scott Perry, the Pennsylvania Republican, who connected Clark to the White House in December 2020.
CNN has previously reported on the role that Perry played, and the committee in court filings released text messages Perry exchanged with Meadows about Clark.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to the Meadows family, said at the hearing that there was a plan to have Mr. Clark take over the Department of Justice.
In May Giuliani met with the panel for more than nine hours and he was involved in Trump’s attempt to win the election.
Jack Smith, the special counsel, has subpoenaed the Secretary of State in Georgia to investigate attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the US Capitol attack.
The grand jury activity expands on previous investigative steps the Justice Department has taken to understand efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies in battleground states after the election.
It could be a particularly compelling witness, and that could be Raffensperger. He became well known after resisting Trump attempts to get him to vote for Trump in Georgia in the 2020 election.
In excerpts of the one-hour call, Trump lambasted his fellow Republican for refusing to falsely say that he won the election in Georgia and repeatedly touted baseless claims of election fraud.
“The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. There is nothing wrong with saying that you have adjusted, Trump said on the call.
The Georgia Republican has already spoken with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, and he testified publicly this summer about the threats he received after standing up to Trump.
It is not known how long Smith will work on the probes before making a decision about any charges. The investigations may result in charges within months, and Smith could still spend time expanding his team and trying to gather as much information as possible.
According to CNN, Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee some of the DOJ’s investigation into the insurrection, sent a letter to the committee requesting all the information from the panel’s investigation.
The handover comes during a key week for the committee. The panel on Monday held its final public meeting, during which 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.
This new batch is part of a steady stream of transcript drops that the select committee has put out over the past week, complementing its sweeping 845-page report. The latest release comes as the panel winds down its work with the House majority set to change hands from Democrats to Republicans next week at the start of the new Congress.
The witness interviews that were given to the panel pertain to the false slates of electors and the campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The 2015 Capitol Insurrection Report to the U.S. House Ethics Committee : Failure of Subpoenas to Comply with Garland’s Evidence
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.
The full report from the committee investigating the January 6, 2015, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is scheduled to be released Thursday.
The committee also referred four Republican House members — Kevin McCarthy of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona — to the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas.
The full report — which was originally slated for Wednesday and is expected to be eight chapters long — will include additional evidence, along with detailed descriptions of the scheme pushed by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. The committee members conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the course of their 18-month investigation.
The transcript of non-sensitive interviews that the committee conducted will be made public between now and the end of the year, when the panel officially sunsets, said the chair of the committee.
In a statement released Monday, Pelosi praised the committee but did not state what she sees as the next step for the referrals of House members.
The committee has reached important conclusions and I respect them. Our Founders made clear that, in the United States of America, no one is above the law. This bedrock principle remains unequivocally true, and justice must be done,” Pelosi said.
The Mueller Investigation Into Donald J. Trump and the Correspondence Between a Single Former President and “The Case of January 6th”
A bill updating the Electoral Count Act has bipartisan backing and has been attached to the omnibus spending bill moving through Congress in the coming days.
The central cause of January 6th was a single man, former President Donald Trump who many others followed, according to the summary of the final report released on Monday. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”
The summary of the committee’s findings shows that Trump was warned that his schemes were illegal.
The committee 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 says it gathered evidence indicating that Trump “raised roughly one quarter of a billion dollars in fundraising efforts between the election and January 6th. Those solicitations persistently claimed and referred to election fraud that did not exist.”
It also 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.
The summary states that even Rudolph Giuliani and his legal team acknowledged that there were no definitive evidence of election fraud that could change the election outcome.
Sources familiar with Trump’s legal strategy in the Justice Department probe have told CNN that his attorneys believe prosecutors face an uphill battle in proving he did not believe the election was stolen despite being told as much by senior members of his own administration.
The November 5th text message outlines a similar strategy to what the former President’s allies attempted to carry out in the months that followed. Some Republicans in the Legislature wanted to have fake “Trump electors” to vote in certain swing states, as well as filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results.
The committee said lawyers who get paid for defending the former president have an incentive to do so instead of representing their clients. The Fulton County District Attorney and the Department of Justice have been given some information about the topic.
In one case, a witness who was paid by a Trump-aligned group was told she could “in certain circumstances” give a false testimony to the Committee. When a witness raised concerns with her lawyer, she was told they don’t know what she knows. They don’t know that you can recall some of these things. So you saying ‘I don’t recall’ is an entirely acceptable response to this,” according to the report summary.
The lawyer told his client no, no, no, no when it came to an issue that reflected negatively on Trump. We would prefer not to go there. We don’t want to talk about that.”
The summary states that the invocation of privilege by Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel, prevented the committee from learning more about conversations with Trump. But the panels appears optimistic that a recent, under-seal court victory the DOJ secured will allow prosecutors to obtain that testimony from Cipollone.
According to the committee interview with Julie Radford, the then-vice president had a conversation with Trump in which he referred to him as The P word.
Investigating the Pentagon Investigation of the January 6 Invasion of the Capitol by the U.S. Capitol, a response to a CNN Observer report by Clark
According to the summary, Jeff Clark chose to ignore certain Department findings on election fraud and insert the Department into the presidential election to support President Trump.
There is a case to be made for why the Justice Department should pursue the rioters who are not physically at the Capitol.
The committee says that Trump “believed then, and continues to believe now, that he is above the law, not bound by our Constitution and its explicit checks on Presidential authority.”
Like Freeman and Moss, other officials who faced Trump received death and rape threats and an onslaught of phone calls and emails, and so feared for their safety.
Evidence shows that Trump allies sought pardons when the administration drew to a close, the committee says.
The new details about the alleged attempt by Gaetz to get a pardon are provided in the summary.
The intelligence community and law enforcement agencies received information about January 6 being violent and shared it with the White House and US Secret Service, according to the summary of the report.
The intelligence summary of the plans to occupy the Capitol and invade the Capitol was sent to Department of Justice officials. According to testimony from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist predicted on a National Security Council call that the Capitol could be the target of violence.
When it came to security updates ahead of January 6, Tony Ornato, former White House deputy chief of staff was not up to the task.
Ornato confirmed Engel’s understanding of information sharing, but when pressed on whether he talked to Meadows about concerns of the threat landscape going into January 6 said, “I don’t recall; however, in my position I would’ve made sure he was tracking the demos, which he received a daily brief, Presidential briefing. He was most likely getting all of this in his daily brief.
Reply to “Comment on ‘Rescue on the Capitol of the United States of America’” by Grisham and Guilfoyle
Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary and chief of staff to Melania Trump, said she learned from people inside the West Wing on January 6, 2021, that Trump thought the rioters “looked very trashy,” but reveled in how they were “fighting for him.”
Throughout their testimony, Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle said they didn’t remember specific conversations about rally planning and that they were in the dark about the particulars as it was being put together.
The driver of the SUV, who was also a Secret Service agent, told the panel they did not remember what happened that day.
“So to the best of my recollection, I recall him being – wanting to saying that he wanted to physically walk and be a part of the march and then saying that he would ride the Beast if he needed to, ride in the Presidential limo,” McEnany said.
Another intent the committee’s report summary seeks to prove is that Trump’s call to his supporters to go the Capitol during his rally speech was pre-planned.
The committee notes that the MyPIllow CEO stated that this stayed only between them. … It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it ‘unexpectedly.’”
The committee states that as the riot unfolded he made no requests for security assistance while resisting efforts from staffers to call off his supporters.
The president didn’t talk to a single 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. To make sure that the Vice President was safe, President Trump did not attempt to reach out to his own Vice President.
The chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff told the committee he had a reaction to Trump. There is an assault on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?
The photographs of President Trump were not taken until after 4 pm, according to testimony from a former White House photographer.
A House Committee Investigation of Donald Trump’s 187 Minutes During the January 6, 2016 Insurrection Revealed by a White House White House Employee
Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for Trump, told one of the rally organizers that he felt guilty about helping him win, the report states.
McCarthy reached out to the family of Donald Trump for assistance during the riot, but he was scared, according to Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
In a text to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, “Mark I was just told there is an active shooter on the first floor of the Capitol Please tell the President to calm people This doesn’t solve anything, according to the summary.
The committee reveals a conversation Trump had with a White House employee upon returning to the White House after his speech on January 6. Trump’s actions and conversations from when he returned to the White House to when he called off the rioters, referred to famously as the 187 minutes, continues to have huge gaps of information.
The summary acknowledges the roadblocks the House committee ran into in its investigation and says the Justice Department has the tools – such as grand jury subpoena power – to knock down those obstacles.
The select committee had more than 30 witnesses who invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to provide testimony. The investigation included individuals such as Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.
The former president and others have been referred by the committee to the Department of Justice for assisting or aiding an insurrection. The panel believes congressional committees have the power to create a formal mechanism for denying future federal or state office to anyone who violates the 14th Amendment.
The Mueller Investigation of the 2020 Insurrection: Report of the Democratic Congressional Subcommittee to the Committee on Investigating State and Local Law Enforcement
There were no major new bombshells in the report that the committee released Thursday – instead the committee focused on laying out the depth and detail of its work across its investigation.
The most complete account of the two months between Election Day in 2020 and Joe Biden’s inauguration in January of 2021, has been offered by the report.
It’s a narrative that expands upon the committee’s public hearings over the summer, walking readers step-by-step through the various schemes Trump orchestrated and the help he had from allies inside and outside his administration.
But while the report’s main headlines were all about Trump, the final report also offers a definitive picture of the attack on Congress, the contributing factors within American discourse as well as law enforcement preparedness and failures.
The committee interviewed leaders of law enforcement agencies, such as the Washington, DC Mayor, and police force heads.
The select committee also says it interviewed 24 witnesses and reviewed 37,000 pages of documents for a review of the response of the DC National Guard, which attempts to explain the delayed response of the force to the Capitol.
The committee was told that Major General William Walker, the head of the DC National Guard, considered sending troops to the Capitol on January 6 even if it would mean he would have to resign the next day.
The panel stated that Engel didn’t describe the situation in the same way as Hutchinson described it and Ornato didn’t recall President Trump gesturing towards him.
The committee’s report underscores how the House’s successful court fights to pry loose documents, emails and phone records played a major role in helping the committee flesh out its narrative of January 6.
There are more transcripts expected in the committee’s final days from other witness testimony, teasing out evermore details in the hours before the committee is dissolved, as is expected in the new Congress.
GOPLawmakers and Trump are eagerly waiting for the release of their cases, as well as other parties, to see if there are any charges against them related to the January 6 insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The released transcripts have provided insight into the last weeks of the Trump presidency, with accounts from inside the Trump administration, federal and state officials who resisted pressure to change the results of the 2020 election, and many others.
Donald Trump Jr. told the committee that the reason he texted Meadows a detailed plan about how to ensure his father would get a second term two days after the 2020 presidential election was because he thought the ideas were “the most sophisticated” and “sounded plausible.”
CNN reported on the text message where he laid out ideas for keeping Trump in power by subverting the electoral college process in April, but that context was changed by Trump Jr.s testimony.
Although he told CNN in April he did not recall who wrote the text, he explained to investigators why he was being asked to send messages at the time.
Trump Jr. sent a text the next day to make certain he saw the original text, and it turned out that many of the things they said had merit. Working on this for PA, so Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina already.”
The interviews with the House select committee gave evidence about the events leading up to theJanuary 6 attack, but the transcripts do not show what was said by Trump Jr and Guilfoyle. When asked by committee investigators if he ever received $30,000, Trump Jr. said he didn’t recall, and Guilfoyle never ended up getting paid.
The event in which we did annually and always got paid for speaking fees to show up, was prior to Christmas, Trump Jr. said.
I wasn’t involved in the certification stuff. She didn’t know that the January 6 rally was significant, she said, and couldn’t explain it to you.
Lindsey Graham and the House of Representatives: A Memoir of a Democratic Sen. Bobb, President Trump, and a Special Counsel Investigation into the 2019 January 6 Election
After the 2020 election, Sen. Lindsey Graham pledged to become a “champion” of then-President Trump’s election fraud claims – if only Trump’s advisers would give him information about dead voters, according to an account given to the January 6 committee.
According to a transcript of Bobb’s House testimony released Thursday, Graham received a memo from the legal team working with Trump, titled “Chairman Graham dead votes memo for your consideration.”
Give me an example of illegals voting. Just give me a very small snapshot that I can take and champion,” Bobb added, relaying what Graham said at the time.
Grisham told the committee: “I heard from several people in the West Wing, more on the military aide or Secret Service side, and then a couple just people, but that he was sitting in the dining room, and he was just watching it all unfold, and that a couple of his comments – some of his comments were that these people looked very trashy, but also look at what fighters they were.”
She never trusted them to do things in the best interests of Don Jr. and his father, according to Grisham.
Grisham said Melania also distrusted “people that she thought were giving her husband bad advice,” like lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and campaign staffers. “She would say, I think they’re giving him bad advice, I don’t think this is smart.”
Miller said of the DC mayor being given more authority over the Guard: “Being a private citizen, I’ll tell you exactly what I think, and take it or leave. Yes, yeah.
O’Brien considered resigning from his post over Trump’s response to the violence on January 6, 2021, but ultimately decided to remain in the job, CNN previously reported. The National Security Council should have been involved in the handling of classified documents at end of the Trump presidency, and O’Brien may have knowledge of how those records ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
According to two sources familiar with the matter, Chad Wolf was interviewed by lawyers for the Justice Department as part of the ongoing special counsel investigation into election interference.
Wolf declined to comment on his recent interview with federal investigators, which was first reported by Bloomberg. A spokesman for Smith also declined to comment.
The federal grand jury in the Smith investigation has been interviewing Ken Cuccinelli, Wolf’s former deputy. When Cuccinelli was asked at the time whether privilege claims arose, he said: “They did, and I didn’t say anything.”
Two other sources told CNN that Smith hasn’t been seeking testimony from a lot of other people in the administration, including former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
Wolf urged Trump and elected officials to condemn the violence on Capitol Hill in the days after the attack.