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A Jan. 6 committee on the House of Representatives on Thursday released a new batch of records that include interviews with Donald Trump Jr., a former Trump White House aide, and more.
This new batch is part of a steady stream of transcript drops that the Selection Committee has published over the past week and complements the extensive 845-page report. The latest release comes as the House majority is set to change hands from Democrats to Republicans at the start of next week’s new Congress, and the panel will scale back its work.
So far, the released minutes show testimony from within Trump’s White House about the final weeks of former President Donald Trump’s presidency, federal and state officials resisting pressure to overturn the 2020 election results. has provided many insights, including testimony from officials in
Here are some of the highlights from Thursday’s disclosure.
Donald Trump Jr. texted former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the committee a detailed plan on how to help his father win a second term two days after the 2020 presidential election. I sent it because the idea was “the most sophisticated” and “sounded plausible.”
Trump Jr.’s testimony revealed by the task force on Thursday provides new context for a CNN text message first reported in April that puts Trump in power by upending the electoral college process. Offered various ideas to keep.
The Nov. 5 text message outlines much of the same strategy that the former president’s allies attempted to implement in the months that followed. Trump Jr. sues and advocates recounts to prevent certain battleground states from proving their results, and forces a few Republican state legislatures to submit fake lists of “Trump electors” I am specifically referring to this.
If all that fails, Republicans in Congress will only have to vote to re-elect Trump as president on January 6, according to Trump Jr.’s writings.
The message “We are doing operational management” is written. “Moral Highground POTUS has to start the second semester now.”
Trump Jr. said he wasn’t the original author of the text, his attorney pointed out to CNN in April and said he doesn’t remember who was the original author of the message, but he said investigators Seeing the messages he was sending at the time, he felt this needed to be told to Meadows.
“Perhaps when I read it, it was the most sophisticated and detailed, and also sounded plausible about things I didn’t necessarily know, so I knew we were. I wanted to confirm. We are looking into the issues raised in the text,” Trump Jr. said.
Meadows initially did not respond to an original text on Nov. 5, but when Trump Jr. followed up the next day to confirm, Trump’s then-chief of staff said, “There’s a lot to do with this.” We’ve had the benefit of, and Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina are already working on this.”
Chris Miller, who served as acting secretary of defense at the end of the Trump administration, told the committee that Washington, D.C. mayors should exercise greater control over the D.C. National Guard in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Washington, D.C. Said he was thinking. Houses of Parliament.
During a deposition in January, Miller was asked about Congress’ proposal to give Washington, D.C.’s mayor the same powers as the state’s governor to deploy the National Guard. Since the District of Columbia is not a state, the power to deploy is delegated by the Secretary of Defense and the President to the Secretary of War.
Miller said of the DC Mayor being given more power over security guards: hey yeah ”
“Mayors should exercise greater control over the National Guard in Washington, D.C.,” he continued, according to the minutes released by the panel on Thursday. “I don’t know the history. And I’m pretty sure there are all sorts of constitutional reasons more than I understand, so I’m kind of jumping out, but I’m going to make her or the mayor meaningful to this process of work.” There has to be a way to integrate into .More aggressively.”
Miller testified to the commission about the delay in sending the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, explaining why Major General William Walker, the commander of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., believed he did not have approval to deploy. said he didn’t know. According to a January 6 commission report, Walker “understood that he would have to wait for approval from Secretary (Ryan) McCarthy to deploy his force. After hours of waiting for the video call, I strongly considered sending it anyway.”
After the 2020 election, Senator Lindsay Graham said that then-President Trump would be forced to pay if Trump’s advisers only provided him with information about deceased voters, according to a briefing presented to the committee on Jan. 6. has pledged to be a “champion” of election fraud allegations.
“Senator Graham said, ‘Get your information,'” Trump attorney Christina Bob said at a meeting days before the Jan. 6, 2021 riots, Graham said. I informed the House Select Committee about this.
“Give me five dead voters,” Bob said Graham told then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and others in Meadows’ office at the White House.
“Give me an example of illegal voting. Give me a very small snapshot that I can take and defend,” Bob added, conveying what Graham said at the time.
Correspondence with Graham explored how South Carolina Republicans were involved in Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn his election loss in Georgia, and how the White House at the time was an influential politician. and how they spread Trump’s message about false election fraud claims.
“Graham was like, ‘Oh, I want to support this cause. Please, I will defend it,” Bob recalled from a conversation with Graham.
According to a transcript of Bob’s home testimony released Thursday, Graham received a memo from the legal team working with Trump titled “Consider Chairman Graham’s Death Vote Memo.”
But Bob added, “He didn’t do anything about it.”
Graham’s office noted Thursday that the book “Danger” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa previously described similar exchanges between Graham and Trump advisers. was unconvinced of their alleged fraud. His office provided no further response.
