On Jan. 6, the House Select Committee released a new batch of transcripts that included conversations with some of former President Donald Trump’s close aides.
Conversations with John McEntee, Trump’s Chief of Staff; former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; and Cassidy Hutchinson, a former adviser to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows who gave explosive testimony before the House committee in June, were among 18 released Tuesday on the committee’s website.
The documents reveal more information about Trump’s thoughts on a blanket pardon for the Jan. 6 rioters and Meadows’ practice of burning documents between the 2020 election and Joe Biden’s inauguration.
via the Associated Press
The committee released an 845-page final report on its Jan. 6 investigation earlier this month.
“Most Americans did not know exactly how Donald Trump, along with many others, planned to defeat the Jan. 6 presidential handoff,” committee Vice Chairman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) wrote in the report’s foreword. “This was not a simple plan, but it was corrupted.”
Before releasing its final report, the committee referred the criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department.
Trump reacted to the report with his usual talking points, calling the investigation a “witch hunt” and trying to deflect blame for the Jan. 6 violence onto House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The commission is expected to release more transcripts of its investigation, with the New York Times reporting that hundreds more are expected this week.
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