The House Select Committee probing the January 6 uprising is indicating that it has wallowed in Donald Trump’s barrier to what was going on inside the White House and his own family, while he held a meeting this week. Years ago refused to stop a mob attack on the US Capitol. ,
Revelations on Sunday by the top two lawmakers on the committee give a clear indication that it may be getting to the truth about the violence Trump instigated to advance his coup attempt, the worst attack on American democracy in modern times. Turned into. And a person familiar with the investigation told CNN’s Jamie Gangel that one of the key witnesses to testify is Keith Kellogg, the national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, who accompanied Trump to the White House when the riot broke out.
Mississippi’s Democrats Committee Chair Benny Thompson said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the panel has “significant evidence” that shows the White House was told “to do something” as a crowd of Trump supporters was expelled from his election. Fantasies broke their way into the Capitol. Wyoming Republican Vice Chair Liz Cheney told ABC News of “firsthand testimony” that Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who was a West Wing adviser at the time, twice asked her to intervene in a scuffle in which police officers were called. He was beaten up by the mob.
The source also told CNN’s Gangel that the committee has texts and other documents showing what the president was doing and not doing at the time, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The new details about what appears to be direct information from inside the West Wing serve as a warning to Trump that his relentless efforts to hide the truth about a day that will remain in disrepute may not work. And it can prevent other witnesses from speaking out against the committee.
And now comments from the committee’s leadership that shed fresh light on the motivation behind the former president’s quest to keep secret documentary evidence of his role on January 6 has reached the US Supreme Court. They also point to the refusal of many of Trump’s close aides and acolytes to speak to the committee about exactly what he was doing in the Oval Office. It is increasingly clear that those appearances may force them to choose between telling the truth under oath and passing on their old boss, who still dominates the GOP. Two such Trump aides – Meadows and his former political mentor Steve Bannon – have already received criminal contempt referrals from the committee and the entire House to the Justice Department. Bannon faces trial in July. Meadows has provided documentary evidence to the committee but has withheld cooperation.
But this week’s events will also underline that a year later, Trump’s overwhelming power over the GOP and the complicity of many of his top leaders in his voting fraud means that American democracy is in deeper trouble than ever before and widespread attacks. Is under.