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January 6: At least five former Trump White House staff meet with House committee | News Today

Malagigi BoutotOctober 26, 2021
January 6: At least five former Trump White House staff meet with House committee

January 6: At least five former Trump White House staff meet with House committee

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The talks come as lawyers working for the committee have also reached out to various other Trump aides to ask if they would be interested in speaking voluntarily with the committee, without the threat of a subpoena.

The five former staff who had conversations with the committee did so with the members or their staff. Some believe they have information worth sharing, while others hope to avoid being legally compelled to speak to the committee.

The engagement could provide insight to the committee seeking to learn more about the actions of former President Donald Trump and his supporters ahead of the riot.

According to five former Trump aides, the committee lawyer emailed or texted them directly to ask if they were interested in coming to speak to congressional investigators, often looking for the background to what happened. inside the west wing before the January 6 uprising. .

While several people voluntarily sat down with the committee, others declined the committee’s request or did not respond at all. Awareness has spread from junior staff to more senior civil servants.

The awareness is not necessarily due to the committee’s belief that staff members were involved in what happened that day. But investigative staff appear to be trying to glean more context on what was going on inside the West Wing before, during and after the attack, the sources said.

A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment.

CNN previously reported that Alyssa Farah, former director of strategic communications at Trump’s White House, had voluntarily met with Republicans on the House select committee and provided information at several meetings, sources familiar with the matter said. . Farah left the White House in December 2020.
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The news of the awareness comes as Trump engages in a legal battle over the committee’s investigation. Trump sued the committee and the National Archives in an attempt to protect documents from them. And a lawyer for the former president recently asked four former Trump administration officials – Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Stephen Bannon and Kash Patel – not to provide any testimony or documents to the investigative panel, saying they are protected “from disclosure by executive and other privileges, including, but not limited to, presidential communications, the deliberative process, and attorney-client privileges.” ”

White House attorney Dana Remus again informed the National Archives on Monday that President Joe Biden was refusing to assert his privilege on additional documents that Trump said should be kept under wraps.

This story has been updated with additional details.

Ryan Nobles of CNN contributed to this report.

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Malagigi BoutotOctober 26, 2021
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