The House lawmakers on the committee investigation the Jan. 6 Capitol protest that turned into violence ARE making headway…
They have spoken to tons of witnesses…
They KNOW what went on that day….
But the hardcore Trump insiders are gonna be another thing…
Spured on Trump and worried about what they could say that might come back to haunt them….
Bannon, Stone and now Meadows have ‘lawyered up’ and will NOT cooperate with the probe Q & A…
Witnesses seeking to evade testimony to the Jan. 6 committee may have landed on their most potent strategy: Pleading the Fifth.
In recent days, three witnesses with ties to Donald Trump have signaled they intend to invoke their constitutional right against self-incrimination. They include John Eastman, the attorney who helped lead a campaign pressuring Mike Pence to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory; Jeffrey Clark, the Justice Department lawyer whom Trump considered installing as acting attorney general to support his effort to subvert the election; and Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant.
Pro-Trump broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently said on his web show that he’d likely plead the Fifth to the Capitol riot committee as well, though his attorney has repeatedly declined to comment on his plans.
Their assertions are the latest, and perhaps stiffest, test for the Jan. 6 committee as it seeks to penetrate the former president’s inner circle and piece together his actions during the chaotic closing weeks of his term. Eastman, Clark and Stone are among those who were closest to Trump as he sought to overturn the 2020 election, with some physically just blocks away as a mob of supporters overran Capitol Police and threatened the peaceful transfer of power.
Legal experts say the committee has few options once a witness pleads the Fifth — and the choices they do have are risky or impractical….
The House lawmakers also are under a time pressure …
Midterm election campaign will begin in earnest in a few months and members will need to be able wrap this up…
In addition?
A loss of the Democratic majority in 2023 would mean their work is done also….
Looks like Trump’s Presidential Capitol Jan 6. stuff is about to to go to the House committee…
Only the Supreme’s can stop it….
A federal appeals court on Thursday denied former President Trump’s effort to block the National Archives from turning over his White House’s records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Trump’s lawyers’ arguments that the former president could wield claims of executive privilege to prevent the current administration from sharing the documents with Congress….
More…
Meadows may have stopped talking…
But?
House Committee Gets Mark Meadows’ Texts
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows provided the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot with text messages and emails that show he was “exchanging with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway,” CNN reports.
“These communications offer a window into what people were texting to Meadows on January 6, what he was telling them about Trump in real time, and what the former President was doing for those hours while the Capitol was under attack.”
A source familiar with the communications says the texts “may not reflect well” on Trump.