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The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) for his voluntary cooperation for an interview regarding his role in promoting theories of 2020 election fraud. CHECK OUT NEWT GINGRICH’s uBIO NOW “Some of the information that we have obtained includes email messages that you exchanged with senior advisors to President Trump and others, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, in which you provided detailed input into television advertisements that repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 20...
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The House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack has obtained evidence that a tour was given by Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk (Georgia) on January 5, 2021, despite previous testimonies from GOP lawmakers claiming there had been “no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on” at the Capitol. The committee requested a voluntary meeting with Loudermilk in a Thursday letter penned by committee chairman Bennie Thompson(D-Mississippi) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming). Loudermilk admitted that he had brought a “constituent family” but said that the group he led had no conn...
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The Justice Department requested transcripts from the January 6 House select committee in the widening of their probe into the Capitol attack, but the committee rejected their inquiry. “They made a request, and we told them that as a committee, the product was ours, and we’re not giving anyone access to the work product. That would be premature at this point because we haven’t completed our work.” January 6 committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) said on Tuesday. “We can’t share it, the document, with them,” Thompson added. “Big difference … we can’t give them unilateral access.” Th...
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has been in communication with former Attorney General William Barr regarding a recently released draft of an executive order involving the Defense Department. Barr, whose last day at the Justice Department was December 23, 2020, said that he did not have any useful information pertaining to the January 6 attack. The draft, which was never signed by then-President Donald Trump, would have required the Defense Department to seize voting machines in an investigation into what Trump and his allies call a “rigged” election. Rep. Be...
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Former President Donald Trump‘s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows sent an email to staffers in which he pledged to deploy the National Guard to “protect pro-Trump people” on the day before the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol. The revelation was part of a report released on Saturday by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol that contained previously unknown information about Meadows’ role in the deadly siege. “Mr. Meadows participated in meetings and calls during which the participants reportedly discussed the need t...
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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows filed a lawsuit against the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in federal court on Wednesday hours after announcing that he will not cooperate with the probe. Facing a referral by the bipartisan panel to the Department of Justice for criminal contempt of Congress, Meadows alleges in his complaint that the subpoenas were “overly broad and unduly burdensome” and that the Committee “lacks lawful authority to seek and to obtain” his personal communications with ex-President Donald Trump and other ...
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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has changed his mind and will no longer cooperate with the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. On Tuesday, Meadows’s attorney, George P. Terwilliger III, sent a letter to the Committee reaffirming the former Republican congressman’s prior claim that his communications with ex-President Donald Trump and other actors involved with the deadly attack are shielded by executive privilege. Terwilliger also accused the Committee of acting unfairly. “As a result of careful and deliberate consideration ...
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Democrats and Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee agreed on Friday to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The commission would include five members from each party, all of whom would have expertise in law enforcement and national security. Though some GOP leaders have lobbied for an investigation of other instances of political violence as well, the commission will only focus on the Jan. 6 riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) emphasized in a statement the importance of this move: “It is imperative that we seek the truth of w...
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On Tuesday, the House Homeland Security Chairman accused former president Donald Trump of inciting the Jan 6. Capitol riot. The charge is part of a larger federal lawsuit against Trump, which also alleges that the former president conspired to prevent Congress from verifying his electoral defeat. News of the lawsuit comes just days after Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who played a role in starting the lawsuit, said, “All I wanted to do was do my job, and the insurrection that occurred prevented me from doing that.” Jason Miller, a s...
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