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Former White House aide Stephen Miller testified on Thursday to the House select committee investigating January 6 about whether Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The virtual deposition, which lasted for roughly eight hours and was earlier reported by the New York Times, also touched on Miller’s role in the former president’s schemes to overturn the results of the 2020 election and return him to office, the source said.

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Miller was Trump’s top domestic policy adviser and chief speechwriter. His appearance made him the latest Trump White House official to speak to the select committee, a day after Trump White House counsels Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin talked to the panel for the first time.

House investigators asked Miller about the language in Trump’s speech at the rally that took place at the Ellipse on January 6, a speech that Miller helped draft, the source said.

Miller’s appearance was at times heated and adversarial, the source added. Miller invoked executive privilege to some questions concerning his conversations with Trump, and only testified in response to the subpoena and after protracted negotiations involving his lawyer.

Chilidog wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:08 pm

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:50 am

Chilidog wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:08 pm

Well, I mean, to be fair, they did invite him in.

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Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews wrote: Per my colleague @elliskkim - Kimberly Guilfoyle is at the offices of the Jan. 6 select committee today

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:47 pm So, is she gonna scream that she's either having an orgasm or taking the fifth?

The conservative attorney John Eastman is defying a request from the House January 6 committee to hand over 37,000 pages of email relating to his work with former President Donald Trump, citing attorney-client privilege, Politico reported.

John Eastman, who wrote a memo outlining how Trump could overturn his 2020 defeat, had been ordered by US District Judge David Carter in January to review 90,000 pages of email requested by the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

Eastman had been reviewing hundreds of pages of emails a day since January, Politico reported.

He is now claiming that the 37,000 pages should be shielded from the House committee under laws allowing attorneys and their clients to discuss issues confidentially, Politico reported.

Eastman represented Trump in the months after the November 2020 election, as the president sought to overturn his defeat.

But the House committee is objecting to the confidentiality claim, and referred the issue to Carter for adjudication, who will review all of the 37,000 emails.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:22 am She reportedly did nine and a half hours with the committee yesterday.

Gregg wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 1:36 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:22 am She reportedly did nine and a half hours with the committee yesterday.

She sure as hell never needed to do that with Don Jr, either....

Congressional investigators entering the last stage of their probe are gathering new evidence about a crucial moment on the Jan. 6 timeline: the final, fateful phone call between Donald Trump and Mike Pence before a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol.

They’ve had a lot of success on that front — court records and Jan. 6 select committee documents reveal that the panel has obtained significant details about that call. In recent weeks, they’ve learned even more from several high-profile witnesses who were in the Oval Office while Trump berated Pence for refusing to overturn the election.

Yet one crucial gap remains. Top Pence aides say the former vice president was in his residence when the call came in. He then left the room and was out of earshot for 15 to 20 minutes. Those aides told the select committee that Pence never disclosed to them the contents of the conversation. More importantly, Pence’s aides say he never revealed how he replied to Trump’s intense last-minute pressure.

That gap of information looms as the House panel works to finalize a minute-by-minute account of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, when he pushed Pence to prevent the transfer of power to Biden. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has remained publicly undecided about whether to seek testimony from Pence himself, noting that Pence’s closest advisers have cooperated fulsomely. But investigators must also confront whether Pence’s side of that conversation — for which no Pence advisers were present — is significant enough to ask him to fill in the blanks.

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