United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
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Active United States House of Representatives 117th Congress | |
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Formed | July 1, 2021 |
Leadership | |
Chair | Bennie Thompson (D) Since July 1, 2021 |
Vice chair | Liz Cheney (R) Since September 2, 2021 |
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Seats | 9 |
Political parties | Majority (7)
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Purpose | To investigate the protest on the United States Capitol, January 6, 2021 |
Senate counterpart | None |
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The United States House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack, also January 6 Committee, or simply select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, was created by the Democrats to investigate what they and most in mainstream media determined to be an attack on the US Capitol.[1][2] Some of the misleading terminology that was used to describe the chaos and turmoil caused by small groups of independent rioters rather than the majority of peaceful protestors, include insurrection, domestic terrorism, a coup, and peaceful protest gone awry.[3] Left-leaning mainstream media sensationalized the event while at the same time accusing the right for whitewashing, and vice versa.[4] For comparison purposes, the initial estimates for the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon was $2.3 million in damages to federal buildings[5] vs the initial estimates of damage to the US Capitol which initially totaled $1.5 million.[6]
Strong partisan views on both sides of mainstream media as well as social media determined what the world knew about the event. Media focused their attention on select few violent outbursts by separate groups of protestors who became riotous following the tear gas and other forms of riot control by Capitol Police that rained down on the protestors. Videos captured by bystanders brought different perspectives to certain events, such as the killing of Ashli Babbitt, which corroborated eye-witness accounts that she was clearly not putting anyone's life in danger other than her own. The groups of protestors that became riotous and caused damage to the Capitol Building, including the breaking of doors and windows in their attempts to enter the Senate Chamber, helped make it possible for law enforcement to track down the vandals. The committee concluded that Trump knew he did not win the election, and that he perpetrated a fraud they referred to as a "criminal conspiracy" leading to the rioting at the Capitol Building.[7][8] Trump's testimony was subpoenaed in their effort to identify him as "the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to challenge an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power".[9]
House Speaker Pelosi and Minority leader McCarthy were unable to agree on all of the selections to fill the 9 seats on the committee in an effort to ensure a non-partisan investigation. Pelosi rejected McCarthy's selection of Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Indiana), and approved Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). Jordan called the investigation "a partisan charade".[10] Cheney has been a vocal critic of former President Trump, and Kinzinger was one of 10 Republicans who voted twice to impeach Trump. He also voted for the bipartisan independent commission to investigate the January 6 protest. When their terms ended, Cheney was not re-elected, and Kinzinger did not run.[11]
The committee has interviewed over a thousand people[12] and reviewed over one million documents.[13] Some members of Trump's inner circle have cooperated with the committee, while others have defied it.[14] Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were indicted by federal grand juries for refusing to testify; Bannon has been convicted.[15] Congress also held Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino in criminal contempt for refusing to testify, but the Justice Department said it would not prosecute them.[16][17]
History
January 6 United States Capitol protest |
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In the aftermath of the January 6 US Capitol protest, the proposal to form a bicameral commission failed due to a filibuster from Republicans in the Senate.[18] In late May, when it had become apparent that the filibuster would not be overcome, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that she would appoint a select committee to investigate the events as a fallback option.[19][20][21][22]
On June 30, 2021, the resolution, H.Res.503 – Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,[23] passed on the House floor by a vote of 222 to 190, with all Democratic members and two Republican members, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, voting in favor.[24] Sixteen Republican members did not vote.[25] The resolution empowered Pelosi to appoint eight members to the committee, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy could appoint five members "in consultation" with the Speaker.[26] Pelosi indicated that she would name a Republican as one of her eight appointees.[27]
On July 1, Pelosi appointed eight members, seven Democrats and one Republican, Liz Cheney (R-WY); Bennie Thompson (D-MS) would serve as committee chair.[28] On July 19, McCarthy announced the five members he would recommend as the minority on the select committee. He recommended that Jim Banks (R-IN) serve as Ranking Member, and minority members be Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Troy Nehls (R-TX).[29] Banks, Jordan, and Nehls voted to overturn the Electoral College results in Arizona and Pennsylvania. Banks and Jordan had also signed onto the Supreme Court case Texas v. Pennsylvania to invalidate the ballots of voters in four states.[30]
On July 21, Thompson stated in an interview that he would investigate Trump as part of the inquiry into Capitol attack.[31] Hours later, Pelosi said in a statement that she had informed McCarthy that she would reject the recommendations of Jordan and Banks, citing concerns for the investigation's integrity and relevant actions and statements made by the two members. She approved the recommendations of the other three.[32] McCarthy then pulled all of his picks for the committee and stated that he would not appoint anyone on the committee unless all five of his choices were approved.[33][34]
After McCarthy rescinded his recommendations, Pelosi announced on July 25 that she had appointed Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to the committee.[35][36] Kinzinger was one of the ten House Republicans who voted for Trump's second impeachment.[37] Pelosi also hired a Republican, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), as an outside committee staffer or advisor.[38] Cheney voiced her support and pushed for both of their involvement.[37]
On February 4, 2022, the Republican National Committee voted to censure Cheney and Kinzinger, which it had never before done to any sitting congressional Republican. The resolution formally drops "all support of them as members of the Republican Party", arguing that they are, through their work on the January 6 House Committee, hurting Republican prospects in the midterm elections.[39][40] Kinzinger had already announced on October 29, 2021, that he would not run for reelection.[41] Cheney lost the primary for her reelection on August 16, 2022.[42]
Members
117th United States Congress
The commitee's chair is Bennie Thompson, and the vice chair is Liz Cheney. Seven Democrats sit on the committee, while only two Republicans sit on the committee.
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In July 2021, Thompson announced the senior staff for the select committee. They included:[52]
- David Buckley as staff director. Served as CIA inspector general, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence minority staff director
- Kristin Amerling as deputy staff director and chief counsel. Served as deputy general counsel at the Transportation Department and chief counsel of multiple congressional committees.
- Hope Goins as counsel to the chairman. Served as top advisor to Thompson on homeland security and national security matters.
- Candyce Phoenix as senior counsel and senior advisor. Serves as staff director of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
- Tim Mulvey as communications director. Served as communications director for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Throughout August 2021, Thompson announced additional staffers for the select committee.[53][54] Those being:
- Denver Riggleman, senior technical adviser for the January 6 Committee. He previously served as a Republican congressman from Virginia and was an ex-military intelligence officer.
- Riggleman left the committee in April 2022.[55]
- Joe Maher as principal deputy general counsel from the Department of Homeland Security
- Timothy J. Heaphy was appointed as the committee's chief investigative counsel.[56][57]
Investigation
The select committee's work is ongoing. Its investigative teams each focus on a specific area like funding, individuals' motivations, organizational coalitions, and how Trump may have pressured other politicians.[58] The investigation commenced with public hearings on July 27, 2021, when four police officers testified. As of the end of 2021, it had interviewed more than 300 witnesses and obtained more than 35,000 documents.[59] By May 2022, those totals had surpassed 1,000 witnesses and 125,000 records.[7] Some interviews were recorded.[60] As of the October 13th hearing, the select committee has conducted more than 1,000 depositions and interviews, reviewed hundreds of hours of videos (security camera footage, documentary footage, etc.) as well as hundreds of thousands of pages of documents collected throughout their investigation. .[61] While the investigation is still in progress, the select committee has been very cautious on what they publicly communicate on as it has only communicated some, but not all, of the information it has found.
The select committee has split their multi-pronged investigation into multiple color-coded teams.[62][63][64] The teams consist of:
- Green Team, which is tasked with investigating the money trail and whether or not Trump and other Republican allies defrauded their supporters by spreading misinformation regarding the 2020 presidential election, despite knowing the claims were not true.
- Gold Team, which is tasked with investigating whether members of Congress participated or assisted in Trump's attempted to overturn the election. They are also looking into Trump's pressure campaign on local and state officials as well as on executive departments, like the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and others to try to keep himself in power.
- Purple Team, which is tasked with investigating Domestic violent extremist groups, such as the QAnon movement and the militia groups, the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and their involvement with the attack.
- Red Team, which is tasked with investigating the planners of the January 6th rally and other "Stop the Steal" organizers and if they knew the rally would intentionally become violent.
- Blue Team, which is tasked with understanding the threats leading up to the attack, how intelligence was shared among law enforcement, and their preparations or lack thereof.[65] Additionally, Blue team has access to thousands of documents from more than a dozen agencies that other security reviews did not have.[66]
Ultimately, the select committee's findings may be used to inform new legislation. For example, in October 2021, committee members were already collaborating to draft a bill that would clarify the procedures for certifying presidential elections.[67] Election certification is governed by the 1887 Electoral Count Act.
The select committee's findings may also be used in arguments to hold individuals, notably Donald Trump,[7] legally accountable. Possible criminal charges for Trump are obstruction of the electoral certification proceedings, which could carry a maximum sentence of 20 years;[68] "dereliction of duty" in not stopping the riot,[69] especially given testimony from his inner circle who say he was repeatedly advised to stop it;[70] and seditious conspiracy.[71][72][73] Other Republicans could face charges of wire fraud for telling lies in their fundraising efforts.[74][75]
A conviction, in turn, may be used to bar individuals from running for office in the future, as insurrectionists are constitutionally ineligible to hold public office. It is, however, unclear who enforces that.[76][77] In January 2022, lawyers challenged Representative Madison Cawthorn's eligibility to run for reelection,[78][79] and, in March 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility was similarly challenged.[80] The first elected official to be removed from office for participating in the Capitol attack was Couy Griffin, a county commissioner from New Mexico. A judge removed him from office on September 6, 2022, citing the 14th Amendment and ruling that Griffin had participated in an "insurrection".[81]
The select committee's work may also aid the state of Georgia if it decides to prosecute Trump for solicitation of election fraud. On May 2, 2022, Fulton County's District Attorney Fani Willis opened a special grand jury to consider criminal charges.[82]
Simultaneous investigations by the Justice Department
The DOJ is probing the months-long efforts to falsely declare that the election was rigged, including pressure on the DOJ, the fake-electors scheme, and the events of January 6 itself. Potential charges against Trump include seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding.[83]
It was long anticipated that the House select committee would formally recommend that the Justice Department bring criminal charges.[84] At this point, however, it may not. Congressional committees typically are supposed to stick to legislative goals.[85] Congress does sometimes recommend criminal charges, but their "recommendation" or "referral" has no legal force in itself,[86] and the Justice Department is already investigating anyway. On September 25, 2022, Representative Schiff said he favored a criminal referral and hoped the committee would be unanimous on this point.[87]
The select committee is sharing certain information with the Justice Department: for example, the committee's suspicion of witness tampering in Trump's placing of a phone call to a witness.[88]
However, the committee has not yet fulfilled the Justice Department's request that it turn over all its interview transcripts. The Justice Department sent a letter on April 20, 2022, asking for transcripts of past and future interviews. Thompson, the committee chair, told reporters he did not intend to give the Justice Department "full access to our product" especially when "we haven't completed our own work." Instead, the select committee negotiated for a partial information exchange.[89] On June 15, the Justice Department repeated its request. They gave an example of a problem they had encountered: The trial of the five Proud Boys indicted for seditious conspiracy had been rescheduled for the end of 2022 because the prosecutors and the defendants' counsel did not want to start the trial without the relevant interview transcripts.[90] On July 12, 2022, the committee announced it was negotiating with the Justice Department about the procedure for information-sharing and that the committee had "started producing information" related to the Justice Department's request for transcripts. Representative Thompson told CNN that they would likely "establish a procedure to look at some of the material" later in July after the eighth public hearing.[91] In an interview with Nicole Wallace on Deadline: White House, Representative Lofgren stated that the public will get the report at the same time as the DOJ, though the DOJ may receive an unredacted version of the final report.[92]
Information received from Mark Meadows
In September 2021, the select committee subpoenaed former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Meadows initially cooperated but ultimately did not provide a complete set of requested documents[93] and sued to block the two congressional subpoenas. (Meadows did comply with a different subpoena, also January 6-related, issued by the Justice Department in 2022.)[94] On December 14, 2021, the full House voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress,[95] but the Justice Department decided not to criminally charge him.[96] The Justice Department does, however, believe the House subpoena was justified and that Meadows has only "qualified" immunity given that Trump is no longer in office[97][98] (as it argued in a July 15, 2022 amicus brief[99] filed at the request of U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols, regarding Meadow's claim of immunity from the congressional subpoena).[100] On October 31, 2022, the judge ruled that the congressional subpoenas were "protected legislative acts" that were "legitimately tied to Congress's legislative functions'."[101]
In late 2021, before Meadows stopped cooperating, he provided thousands of emails and text messages.[102][93] that revealed efforts to overturn the election results:
- The day after the election, former Texas governor and former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry sent Meadows a proposed strategy for Republican-controlled state legislatures to choose electors and send them directly to the Supreme Court before their states had determined voting results.[103][104]
- Fox News host Sean Hannity exchanged text messages with Meadows suggesting that Hannity was aware in advance of Trump's plans for January 6. The committee wrote to Hannity asking him to voluntarily answer questions.[105][106]
- Representative Jim Jordan asked Meadows if Vice President Mike Pence could identify "all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional".[107]
- The day after the riot, one text stated that "We tried everything we could in our objections to the 6 states. I'm sorry nothing worked."[108][107]
Meadows also participated in a call with a Freedom Caucus group including Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jim Jordan, and Representative Scott Perry during which they planned to encourage Trump supporters to march to the Capitol on January 6.[109]
Meadows also exchanged post-election text messages with Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in which they expressed support of Trump's claims of election fraud. On November 5, in the first of 29 text messages, Ginni Thomas sent to Meadows a link to a YouTube video about the election.[110] She emailed Arizona and Wisconsin lawmakers on November 9 to encourage them to choose different electors, exchanged emails with John Eastman, and attended the rally on January 6.[111][112][113]
Some of the communications revealed Trump allies who privately expressed disagreement with the events of January 6 while defending Trump in public:
- Donald Trump Jr. pleaded with Meadows during the January 6 riot to convince his father that "it has gone too far and gotten out of hand."[114]
- Similarly, Fox News hosts Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham asked Meadows to persuade Trump to appear on TV and quell the riot.[115]
In mid-2022, CNN spoke to over a dozen people who had texted Meadows that day, and all of them said they believed that Trump should have tried to stop the attack.[116]
One of the most revealing documents provided by Meadows was a PowerPoint presentation[117][118] describing a strategy for overturning the election results. The presentation had been distributed by Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel (now owning a bar in Texas)[119] who specialized in psychological operations and who later became a Trump campaign associate. A 36-page version appeared to have been created on January 5,[120][117] and Meadows received a version that day.[121][122][123] He eventually provided a 38-page version to the committee.[120] It recommended that Trump declare a national security emergency to delay the January 6 electoral certification, invalidate all ballots cast by machine, and order the military to seize and recount all paper ballots.[121][122] (Meadows claims he personally did not act on this plan.[121]) Waldron was associated with former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn and other military-intelligence veterans who played key roles in spreading false information to allege the election had been stolen from Trump.[124][119] Politico reported in January 2022 that Bernard Kerik had testified to the committee that Waldron also originated the idea of a military seizure of voting machines, which was included in a draft executive order dated December 16.[125][126] The next month, Politico published emails between Waldron, Flynn, Kerik, Washington attorney Katherine Friess and Texas entrepreneur Russell Ramsland that included another draft executive order dated December 16. That draft was nearly identical to the draft Politico had previously released and embedded metadata indicated it had been created by One America News anchor Christina Bobb. An attorney, Bobb had also been present at the Willard Hotel command center.[127][128]
Obstacles
Release of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
One of the main challenges to the committee's investigation was Trump's use of legal tactics to try to block the release of the White House communication records held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).[129] He succeeded in delaying the release of the documents for about five months. The committee received the documents on January 20, 2022.[130][131]
Some of the documents had been previously torn up by Trump and taped back together by NARA staff.[132] Trump is said to have routinely shredded and flushed records by his own hand, as well as to have asked staff to place them in burn bags, throughout his presidency.[133][134] Additionally, as the presidential diarist testified to the committee in March 2022, the Oval Office did not send the diarist detailed information about Trump's daily activities on January 5 and 6, 2021.[135]
Trump's phone records from the day of the attack, as provided by NARA to the committee, have a gap of seven-and-a-half hours that spans the time when the Capitol was being attacked. It is not that pages were removed from his call logs; rather, no calls during this period were ever logged,[135] suggesting he was using a "burner" cell phone during that time.[136] He is said to have routinely used burner phones during his presidency.[137] The committee had not subpoenaed his personal phone records as of July 2022.[138]
The committee began its request for the NARA records in August 2021.[139][140] Trump asserted executive privilege over the documents.[141] Current president Joe Biden rejected that claim,[142][143] as did a federal judge (who noted that Trump was no longer president),[144] the DC Circuit Court of Appeals,[145] and the U.S. Supreme Court.[146][147] While the request for NARA documents was being litigated, the committee agreed to a Biden administration request that they forgo obtaining certain documents from NARA relating to sensitive national security matters that had no bearing on events of January 6.[148]
Trump warning Republicans not to testify
Another difficulty is that Trump has told Republican leaders not to cooperate with the committee.[149][150][151][152] Messages intended to pressure witnesses may constitute witness tampering, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.[153] While hundreds of people have testified voluntarily,[154] the committee has also had to issue dozens of subpoenas[155] to legally compel certain uncooperative individuals to testify. Some people who were subpoenaed nevertheless refused to testify: Roger Stone and John Eastman pleaded their Fifth Amendment rights, while Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows were found in contempt of Congress. In December 2021, Michael Flynn sued to block a subpoena for his phone records and to delay his testimony, though a federal judge dismissed his suit within a day.[156]
Secret Service, DHS and Pentagon text messages deleted
Soon after the attack on the Capitol, the Secret Service assigned new phones.[157] In February 2021, the office of Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, a Trump appointee, learned that text messages of Secret Service agents had been lost. He considered sending data specialists to attempt to retrieve the messages, but a decision was made against it.[158] In June 2021, DHS asked for text messages from 24 individuals—including the heads for Trump and Pence security, Robert Engel and Tim Giebels—and did not receive them. In October 2021, DHS considered publicizing the Secret Service's delays.[159][160] On July 26, 2022, Chairman Thompson, in his capacity as Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Carolyn Maloney, Chair of the House Oversight & Reforms Committee, jointly wrote to the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency about Cuffari's failure to report the lost text messages and asked CIGIE chair Allison Lerner to replace Cuffari with a new Inspector General who could investigate the matter.[161] Additionally, renewed calls to have President Biden dismiss Cuffari have started gaining traction, with Senator Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting Attorney General Garland to investigate the missing text messages. However, as of July 2022, it is unknown if President Biden will fire Cuffari as he made a campaign promise to never fire an inspector general during his tenure as POTUS.
On August 1, 2022, House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson reiterated calls for Cuffari to step down due to a "lack of transparency" that could be "jeopardizing the integrity" of crucial investigations regarding the missing Secret Service text messages.[162] That same day, an official inside the DHS inspector general's office told Politico that Cuffari and his staff are "uniquely unqualified to lead an Inspector General's office, and ... The crucial oversight mission of the DHS OIG has been compromised."[163] Congress also obtained a July 2021 e-mail, from deputy inspector general Thomas Kait, who told senior DHS officials there was no longer a need for any Secret Service phone records or text messages. Efforts to collect communications related to Jan. 6 were therefore shutdown by Kait just six weeks after the internal DHS investigation began. The Guardian wrote that "Taken together, the new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and the DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence."[164]
On August 2, 2022, CNN reported that relevant text messages from January 6, 2021, were also deleted from the phones of Trump-appointed officials at the Pentagon, despite the fact that FOIA requests were filed days after the attack on the Capitol.[165][166] The Secret Service was later reported to have been aware of online threats against lawmakers before the attack on the Capitol, according to documents obtained by the House select committee.[167]
Trump funding legal defense of Republicans who might testify against him
Trump's Save America PAC has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawyers representing over a dozen witnesses called by the committee. It is not illegal to pay someone else's legal fees, but it raises the question of why Trump would do so and what kind of influence he might have over those people's testimony.[168] On September 1, 2022, Trump said on a right-wing radio show that he had recently met supporters in his office. He said he was "financially supporting" them, adding: "It's a disgrace what they've done to them."[169]
The American Conservative Union is providing legal defense funds for some people who resist the committee. The organization says it only assists people who do not cooperate with the committee and who oppose its mission, according to chairman Matt Schlapp.[170]
Republican National Committee (RNC) claiming committee is illegitimate
Though the Republican National Committee has long insisted that the committee is invalid and should not be allowed to investigate, a federal judge found on May 1, 2022, that the committee's power is legitimate.[171]
Witness not appearing for public hearing
Bill Stepien, Donald Trump's final campaign manager, cancelled his plans to testify for the second hearing, under subpoena, an hour before it started, due to his wife's going into labor, resulting in a delay of 45 minutes while the Select Committee scrambled to rearrange its presentation, with Bill Stepien's lawyer to read a statement for him.[172][173] Instead, they used clips of his deposition.[174]
Public findings
2021 public hearings
The House select committee began its investigation with a preliminary public hearing on July 27, 2021, called "The Law Enforcement Experience on January 6th".[175][176] Capitol and District of Columbia police testified, describing their personal experiences on the day of the attack, and graphic video footage was shown.[177]
2022 public hearings
In 2022, the Committee held live televised public hearings.[178] The New York Times presented a detailed summary of the eight hearings held in June and July.[179]
During the first hearing on June 9, 2022, the chair and vice-chair (Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney, respectively) said that President Donald Trump tried to stay in power even though he lost the 2020 presidential election. Thompson called it a "coup".[180] Cheney said the hearings would present evidence showing that Trump used a seven-part plan, culminating in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The committee has been calling live witnesses, most of whom are Republicans, and some are Trump loyalists.[181][182] They testified under oath. The committee is also making extensive use of video from a number of sources, including sworn deposition testimony obtained earlier. During this hearing, the committee shared footage of the attack, discussed involvement of the Proud Boys, and included testimony from a documentary filmmaker and a member of the Capitol Police.
The second hearing on June 13, 2022, focused on evidence showing that Trump knew he lost and that most of his inner circle knew claims of fraud did not have merit. William Barr testified that Trump had "become detached from reality" because he continued to promote conspiracy theories and pushed the stolen election myth without "interest in what the actual facts were."[183][184]
The third hearing on June 16, 2022, examined how Trump and others pressured Vice President Mike Pence to selectively discount electoral votes and overturn the election by unconstitutional means, using John Eastman's fringe legal theories as justification.[185]
The fourth hearing on June 21, 2022, included appearances by election officials from Arizona and Georgia who testified they were pressured to "find votes" for Trump and change results in their jurisdictions. The committee revealed attempts to organize fake slates of alternate electors and established that "Trump had a direct and personal role in this effort."[186][187]
The fifth hearing on June 23, 2022, focused on Trump's pressure campaign on the Justice Department to rubber stamp his narrative of a stolen election, the insistence on numerous debunked election fraud conspiracy theories, requests to seize voting machines, and Trump's effort to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general.[188]
The exclusive witness of the sixth hearing on June 28, 2022, was Cassidy Hutchinson, top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.[189] Conversations within Trump's inner circle revealed White House officials knew, days in advance of January 6, that violence was possible. Her testimony showed Trump knew supporters at the Ellipse rally were armed with AR-15s and other weapons and that he wanted less stringent security checks at his speech. Trump planned to join the crowd at the Capitol and became irate when the Secret Service refused his request. Closing the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney presented evidence that witness tampering may have occurred.[190]
The seventh hearing on July 12, 2022, showed how Roger Stone and Michael Flynn connected Trump to domestic militias like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys that helped coordinate the attack.[191][192][193]
The eighth hearing on July 21, 2022, presented evidence and details of Trump's refusal to call off the attack on the Capitol, despite several hours of repeated pleas from numerous officials and insiders. According to The New York Times, this final July hearing focused on evidence and witness testimony that highlighted two significant positions that the select committee wanted to communicate to the American people. First, Rep. Liz Cheney made the case that Trump should never hold office again, asking: "Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of Jan. 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?" Secondly, there were urgent calls for legally-binding federal investigations into the actions of the former president and his associates: "If there is no accountability for Jan. 6, for every part of this scheme, I fear that we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy," Rep. Bennie Thompson said. "There must be stiff consequences for those responsible."[179]
The ninth hearing on October 13, 2022,[194][195] may be the final hearing, though vice-chair Cheney wants more hearings.[194][195][196][197] The hearing presented video of Roger Stone and evidence that some Trump associates planned to claim victory in the 2020 election regardless of the official results.[198][199] The committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump for documents and testimony[196][197]
Final report
The committee may release an interim report.[200] The committee is expected to hire a writer to help produce its final report, which will be presented in a multimedia format.[201][200] Though it had been expected to release a report before the midterm elections,[202] as of September the committee was looking at "the end of the year" (before the 117th Congress ends).[203][55]
Timeline of proceedings
2021
July 2021
- July 27: The committee holds its first public testimony, and hears from four police officers who were in the front line as rioters attacked the Capitol. The whole committee prepped the day before. Thompson and Cheney give opening statements.[204][205]
- Daniel Hodges, a Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia officer, said he was crushed in a doorway between rioters and a police line. A man has pled not guilty to assaulting him and grabbing his gear.[206][207][208]
- Michael Fanone, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, said rioters pulled him into the crowd, beat him with a flagpole, stole his badge, repeatedly tased him with his taser and went for his gun.[206][209][210] He supported the creation of the January 6 commission and criticized those who downplayed the attack.[206][208]
- Harry Dunn, a private first class of the U.S. Capitol Police, spoke about the racial abuse he and other officers experienced during the attack.[206][208]
- Aquilino Gonell, a U.S. Capitol Police sergeant, said he was beaten with a flagpole and chemically sprayed.[206][208]
August 2021
- August 23: CNN reports committee investigators would seek phone records of several people, including members of Congress.[211]
- August 25: The committee seeks records of at least thirty members of Trump's inner circle from seven government agencies and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which preserves White House communication records. The committee's letter explains it is repeating requests that "multiple committees of the House of Representatives" made on March 25, 2021.[139][140]
- August 27: The committee demands records from 15 social media companies going back to the spring of 2020.[212]
September 2021
- September 1: The Guardian reports that the committee seeks to identify any White House involvement in planning the Capitol attack and whether Trump had advance knowledge of the riot.[213]
- September 13: The Guardian reports that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is included in the records preservation requests, in addition to Republican members of Congress.[214]
- September 22: The Guardian reports that the committee is considering issuing subpoenas for call records or testimony of senior Trump administration officials including Meadows, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino and former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.[215]
- September 23: The committee issues subpoenas to Meadows, Scavino, chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Pentagon official and former Devin Nunes aide Kash Patel.[216] Documents are demanded by October 7.[217] Bannon and Patel are instructed to testify before the committee on October 14, and Meadows and Scavino on October 15.[218][219] Meadows is granted a postponement and rescheduled for November 12.[220]
- September 29: Amy Kremer and ten others affiliated with her organization Women for America First, which held the permit for the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the Capitol attack, are subpoenaed by the committee.[221] Among these eleven people is Katrina Pierson, national spokesperson for Trump's 2016 campaign.
October 2021
- October 6: The Guardian reports that Trump and his attorneys were instructing the four Trump aides subpoenaed on September 23 to defy the orders and not comply with both the requests for documents and testimony.[149]
- October 7: Politico and Bloomberg report that an attorney for Trump formally instructed the four aides to defy the orders and to provide neither documents nor testimony.[150][151] Later that day, as the committee issues further subpoenas to Stop the Steal LLC, Stop the Steal campaign organizer Ali Alexander, and fellow rally organizer Nathan Martin,[222][223] Trump announces that he would assert executive privilege to withhold the documents the committee had requested in August.[141]
- October 8:
- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says Biden would not honor Trump's request to assert executive privilege to stop NARA from providing these documents.[142][224][225] Nevertheless, Trump writes NARA asserting privilege over about forty documents.[142] The same day, White House counsel Dana Remus advises NARA archivist David Ferriero that the challenged documents were to be released following a 30-day courtesy warning to Trump.[226][227]
- A lawyer for Bannon says in a letter to the committee that Bannon would not comply with the subpoena for his testimony, because Trump had asserted executive privilege and instructed him to defy the subpoena.[152]
- October 13: The committee subpoenas Jeffrey Clark and schedules him to provide documents and testimony later in the month. As assistant attorney general, Clark angled for a promotion to attorney general by promising Trump he would help overturn the election results. Former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, who resisted Clark's efforts to interfere with the election outcome, is interviewed by the committee.[228][229]
- October 14: After Bannon does not appear for his scheduled deposition, the committee says it would initiate proceedings to hold Bannon in criminal contempt.[230] The committee also announces that Patel and Meadows were "engaging" with their investigation, and postpones both their depositions scheduled for October 14 and 15 respectively.[231] Scavino, meanwhile, also has his October 15 deposition postponed because the committee was unable to locate him,[232] and he did not formally receive the subpoena until October 8.[233][234][231]
- October 18: Trump sues to prevent NARA from turning over the records to the committee or at least to allow him "to conduct a full privilege review of all of the requested materials" so he can choose which records NARA provides. His lawsuit, submitted by attorney Jesse R. Binnall, complains that the records request is "illegal, unfounded, and overbroad" and amounts to a "fishing expedition".[235][236] Meanwhile, NARA plans to release the documents on November 12.[237]
- October 19: The committee votes unanimously to adopt a contempt of Congress report against Bannon and refer it to the full House for a vote.[238]
- October 21: All 220 House Democrats and 9 House Republicans vote in favor of the resolution to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress, a majority that refers Bannon's case to the Justice Department. The Justice Department is deciding whether to prosecute Bannon.[239][240] A conviction could take years, according to Stanley Brand, former general counsel to the House of Representatives.[241]
- October 22: CNN reports that Cheney and Kinzinger have interviewed former Trump director of strategic communications Alyssa Farah. She had resigned in December 2020 and told CNN after the January 6 attack that Trump had lied to the American people about the election results.[242]
- October 25: Biden once again says he would not assert executive privilege; this regarded a second batch of documents the committee had requested from NARA.[143]
- October 26: The Washington Post reports that more people are expected to be subpoenaed, including legal scholar John Eastman, who supported Trump's claims about the 2020 election.[243][244]
- October 29: Jeffrey Clark, having parted ways with his attorney several days previously, does not appear for his scheduled deposition.[245]
- October 30: In a court filing, NARA details that Trump sought to block about 750 pages of documents among the nearly 1,600 requested by the committee, including hundreds of pages of statements and talking points by Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany; daily presidential diaries, schedules, and appointment information; White House visitor, activity, and phone logs from on and around January 6; drafts of speeches, remarks, and correspondence relating to the Capitol attack; and handwritten notes from chief of staff Mark Meadows.[246]
November 2021
- November 5: Jeffrey Clark and his new attorney meet with investigators to state Clark would not cooperate unless compelled by a court order, asserting that Trump's "confidences are not his to waive," citing attorney-client privilege. In a letter to the committee, Clark's attorney cites a letter from a Trump attorney specifically stating Trump would not try to block Clark's testimony.[245][247][248]
- November 6: The Guardian reports the committee was preparing to subpoena a number of Trump officials connected to the "war room" operation at the Willard hotel, including John Eastman.[249]
- November 8: The committee issues subpoenas for six people: Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien; campaign senior advisor Jason Miller; former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn; conservative lawyer and former professor John Eastman; Angela McCallum, executive assistant to the campaign; and Bernard Kerik, a Trump ally who participated in meetings at the Willard Hotel regarding efforts to overturn the election.[250][251] Ten other Trump officials and aides are subpoenaed the next day: former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany; senior advisor for policy Stephen Miller; Trump bodyman Nicholas Luna; White House personnel director John McEntee; Ken Klukowski, senior counsel to assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark; deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell; Oval Office operations coordinator Molly Michael; special assistant for legislative affairs Cassidy Hutchinson; Benjamin Williamson, senior advisor to chief of staff Mark Meadows; and Mike Pence's national security advisor, Keith Kellogg.[252][253] All 16 people were required to provide documents by November 23 and scheduled to testify under oath through December.[251][254]
- November 9: Federal judge Tanya Chutkan denies Trump's October 18 request to stop NARA from releasing documents. Trump's claim "that he may override the express will of the executive branch," she wrote in a 39-page ruling, "appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power 'exists in perpetuity'. But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President."[255][144] (The previous evening, Trump had filed an emergency request for a preemptive injunction against Chutkan's forthcoming decision, but Chutkan rejected it two hours later as legally defective and premature.)[256][257] Trump immediately asks Chutkan for an injunction, which she denies.[258][259] However, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals grants Trump's request for an injunction on November 11 and schedules oral arguments before a three-judge panel for November 30.[260]
- November 12:
- November 15: Bannon surrenders to the FBI.[262]
- November 22: Subpoenas are issued for InfoWars host Alex Jones and longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, as well as two Stop the Steal organizers, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence, and Trump spokesman and Save America PAC communications director Taylor Budowich.[263] Warrants for Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, and their respective leaders Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes, are issued the following day.[264] Robert Patrick Lewis, chairman of 1st Amendment Praetorian, a group alleged to have provided security at several rallies before January 6, is also subpoenaed that day.
- November 24: In advance of the hearing scheduled for November 30 regarding the release of NARA records, Trump's attorneys submit a reply brief. They claim that Biden's willingness to release the records served his "own political advantage" and "will result in permanent damage to the institution of the presidency."[265]
- November 30:
- As scheduled, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump's argument. Trump's lawyers ask the judges to review each document and decide separately whether to release each one to Congress. The three judges deny this request. Judge Patricia Millett points out that the dispute, in her analysis, has not been "about the content of the documents" but rather "what happens when the current incumbent president says I'm not going to invoke executive privilege" to stop NARA from providing material to Congress. Millett indicates that, were the court to rule against Trump, it might nevertheless further delay the release of the documents to allow him to appeal to the Supreme Court.[266]
- The Guardian reported that on the night before the January 6 attack, Trump made several calls to his associates at the Willard Hotel, where a command center or "war room" had been established in a set of rooms and suites.[267] Present at the Willard was a team led by Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, Bannon, Eastman, and Boris Epshteyn. Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Bernard Kerik were also present. Trump called to convey that Pence would not agree to employ the Pence Card to overturn the electoral vote, as proposed by Eastman and discussed in an Oval Office meeting on January 5. He discussed ways to delay the certification in order to get alternate slates of electors for Trump sent to Congress, as he, Giuliani and Eastman had discussed by conference call with 300 state legislators on January 2. The Guardian reported that Trump discussed some topics only with lawyers at the Willard so as to preserve the confidentiality afforded by attorney-client privilege.[268][269]
December 2021
- December 1:
- The committee votes unanimously to hold Jeffrey Clark in contempt of Congress.[270] However, he is also given a new deposition date of December 4. This is because Clark has said that he plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from being forced to self-incriminate.[271] Due to Clark's report of a "medical condition", his deposition was postponed twice in December, to an undetermined date.[272] If Clark does not testify and does not properly invoke the Fifth Amendment, the full House may vote on whether to hold him in contempt.
- A 36-page memorandum by Colonel Earl G. Matthews is sent to the committee contesting the findings of the DoD Inspector General report on the response to the riot. The memorandum accuses two principal sources of the report of perjury in an attempted coverup of acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy's inaction during the riot.[273]
- December 7: In a letter from his attorney, Mark Meadows says he will cease cooperating. By then, Meadows has already provided 2,300 text messages, including his text messages from January 6 in which he informed others what Trump was doing during the riot, and some 6,800 pages of emails.[102][93] Among the documents was a January 5 38-page PowerPoint presentation entitled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN" to be provided "on the hill"; a November 6 text exchange with a member of Congress in which Meadows reportedly said "I love it" in a discussion about the possibility of appointing alternate electors in certain states; and a November 7 email discussing the appointment of alternate slates of electors as part of a "direct and collateral attack" after the election.[274][275][276] Meadows objects to news that the committee has subpoenaed telecom carriers for the call and text metadata of more than 100 people, including Meadows and others in Trump's inner circle.[277] As the committee prepares to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, he sues Nancy Pelosi, the committee and its members to block his subpoena as well as the subpoena issued to Verizon for his phone records.[278][279] NARA says it is working with Meadows' lawyers to obtain any additional documents that Meadows might not have provided.[93]
- December 9: A reporter for The Guardian, Hugo Lowell, tweeted slides from a PowerPoint presentation that recommended Trump declare a national security emergency to return himself to office and was reportedly referenced in emails Meadows turned over to the committee.[280][281] Also on December 9, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rules to reject Trump's appeal to have his White House records withheld from the committee. NARA must continue to withhold the records for another 14 days, however, to allow Trump sufficient time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.[145]
- December 10: The Guardian reported that Meadows had turned over a 38-page PowerPoint presentation entitled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN" to the committee as well as the email referring to the presentation. The Guardian reviewed a 36-page version of the presentation, which had the same title and made the same recommendations for Trump to declare a national security emergency to delay the January 6 certification of electors, reject all ballots cast by machine, and have paper ballots secured by U.S. marshals and National Guard troops to conduct a recount, according to the newspaper.[120][282] The New York Times reported that Meadows's attorney said the PowerPoint presentation his client provided to the committee came to his email inbox, but Meadows did not act on it. The Washington Post reported the next day that the presentation, which detailed an elaborate theory that China and Venezuela had taken control of voting machines, had been distributed by Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who specialized in psychological operations during his career. Waldron said he had spoken to Meadows "maybe eight to 10 times" and had attended a November 25 Oval Office meeting with Trump and others, and that he also had briefed several members of Congress on the presentation. Waldron was a Trump campaign associate who made false assertions of election fraud as an expert witness during hearings alongside Rudy Giuliani in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.[123]
- December 12: The committee released a report revealing that Meadows had sent an email on January 5 promising that the National Guard would "protect pro Trump people".[283] The report also included what the committee said were an email and text messages to members of Congress discussing how Trump might persuade legislators of some states to change their certified elector slates from Biden to Trump, writing Trump "thinks the legislators have the power, but the VP has power too." Meadows asked the members how Trump could contact such legislators, which the president did via a conference call with 300 of them on January 2, providing them purported evidence of fraud they might use to decertify their election results. Three days later, dozens of legislators from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wrote Pence asking him to postpone the January 6 certification of electors for ten days "affording our respective bodies to meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election."[284][285]
- December 13: Before the committee voted unanimously to recommend a contempt of Congress charge against Meadows to the full House, Cheney read aloud a selection of text messages Meadows received on and around January 6. Two Fox News allies of Trump texted that the Capitol attack was destroying the president's legacy. Donald Trump Jr. told Meadows that the president needed to make an Oval Office address because "He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand." One unnamed lawmaker, later self-identified as Jim Jordan, texted in part that Pence "should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all." On January 7, an unnamed lawmaker texted, "Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objections to the 6 states. I'm sorry nothing worked."[108][286] After reading the texts, and again the next day, Cheney made allusions to a federal statute to suggest Trump may have committed a felony by corruptly obstructing the electoral certification proceedings.[74][68]
- December 14: The House voted 222–208 to find Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress and to refer the matter to the Justice Department. The only two Republicans to join Democrats in the vote against Meadows were Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom serve on the committee.[95] Prior to the vote, more text messages to Meadows were presented on the House floor, including one sent on the day after the election that proposed a strategy to send electors selected by Republican-controlled legislatures in three states directly to the Supreme Court before voting results had been determined in those states.[287] CNN later reported that the committee believed the text came from Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and secretary of energy during the Trump administration. Though a Perry spokesman denied Perry sent the text, CNN had evidence that it came from Perry's phone. Committee member Jamie Raskin acknowledged that the text's author had been initially misidentified as a lawmaker.[103]
- December 16: The White House counsel's office agreed in writing to delay their pursuit of NARA's release of some documents. Although Biden rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege, the White House nevertheless had its own concerns about the records request and said it should be narrowed so as not to expose highly classified or irrelevant information.[288] The committee on December 16 also moved to subpoena Waldron, the purported author of the PowerPoint presentation turned over by Meadows.[289]
- December 17: Roger Stone appeared before the committee and asserted his Fifth Amendment rights to refuse to answer questions. Through his legal team, he claimed he was avoiding the "elaborate trap" of the committee's "loaded questions".[290]
- December 20: Committee chair Thompson wrote to Representative Scott Perry asking him to provide information about his involvement in the effort to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general. Thompson believed Perry had been involved in the effort to install Clark, given witness testimony from former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue, as well as communications between Perry and Meadows.[291][292][293] Perry declined the request the next day.[294] Among the text messages to Meadows the committee released on December 14 was one attributed to a "member of Congress" dated January 5 that read "Please check your signal," a reference to the encrypted messaging system Signal. In his letter to Perry, Thompson mentioned evidence that Perry had communicated with Meadows using Signal, though Perry denied sending that particular message.[295][296]
- December 22: Thompson wrote a letter to congressman Jim Jordan requesting a meeting to discuss his communications with Trump and possibly his associates on and around January 6.[297][298]
- December 23:
- The Washington Post reported that the committee was considering a recommendation to the Department of Justice of opening a possible criminal investigation into Trump for his activities on January 6.[84]
- Trump appealed to the Supreme Court to block NARA from releasing documents to the committee, which Trump's lawyers claimed would cause him "irreparable harm". Later that day, the committee asked the court to prioritize its decision on whether it would hear Trump's case.[299][300][301] (The court would eventually reject Trump's emergency request a month later, which allowed the committee to receive the records, and it would also decline to hear his case a month after that.)
- December 24: While suing to block a subpoena of his bank records from JP Morgan, current Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a court filing that he had cooperated extensively with the committee by providing 1,700 pages of documents and about four hours of sworn testimony relating to the planning and financing of Trump's speech outside the White House on January 6.[302] The subpoena of JP Morgan had not been public knowledge until Budowich's lawsuit revealed it. It is the first time this committee has been known to subpoena a bank directly.[58]
- December 27: Thompson told The Guardian that the committee would investigate a call Trump made to his associates at the Willard Hotel on the night before the January 6 attack. The Guardian had reported the call on November 30.[303]
- December 29: Trump's attorney complained to the Supreme Court that, if the committee's work had any "legislative purpose," it was merely a pretext for "what is essentially a law enforcement investigation". This would invalidate the investigation, according to Trump's lawyers, since the congressional mandate requires a legislative purpose.[85] Trump's attorney cited a Washington Post interview with Thompson from the previous week, in which the committee chair had argued that a criminal referral could be warranted.[85]
- December 31: Bernard Kerik provided documents to the committee, including a "privilege log" describing attorney work product documents he declined to provide. One document in the log was described as a draft letter from the president to seize election-related evidence for national security reasons. The document was dated December 17, the day before Trump, Flynn, Giuliani and others met in the Oval Office to discuss the president's options, which included seizing voting machines; it was not clear if those discussions and that document were related. Another document detailed a sweeping nationwide communications plan to persuade Republican representatives at the state and federal level "to disregard the fraudulent vote count and certify the duly-elected President Trump."[304]
2022
January 2022
- January 4: Committee chair Representative Bennie Thompson told CNN, regarding Mike Pence: "I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee." Thompson acknowledged that the committee had not formally invited Pence to speak to them. "But if he offered," Thompson said, "we'd gladly accept." The committee would seek information about Trump's pressure campaign to stop Pence from certifying the election results and about Pence's personal experience in Washington on January 6 when the crowd chanted for his execution.[305]
- January 8: The Guardian reported the committee was examining whether Trump had overseen a criminal conspiracy that connected efforts to block Biden's election certification with the Capitol attack.[306]
- January 9: Representative Jim Jordan declined the committee's December 22 request for an interview.[307]
- January 10:
- Politico reported the committee was attempting to retrace Trump's efforts to subvert the election at the state level, especially in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The committee had acquired thousands of documents and interviewed state officials. Secretaries of state in Arizona and Michigan provided the committee with forged certificates of ascertainment created by unauthorized individuals that falsely asserted Trump won their states' electoral votes; the Arizona document used the official state seal. The unauthorized individuals had sent the fraudulent documents to NARA, which rejected them.[308]
- The New York Times reported that the committee considered Pence's testimony particularly important because after he refused on January 5 to play the Pence Card, Trump harshly attacked him verbally and told his January 6 rally crowd "If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election." The Times reported federal prosecutors were asking defense attorneys of indicted rioters if their clients would admit in sworn statements that they stormed the Capitol believing Trump wanted them to stop Pence from certifying the election. One member of Proud Boys who pleaded guilty said he had conspired with other members to "send a message to legislators and Vice President Pence." Another rioter stated in her guilty plea that she marched on the Capitol specifically after hearing Trump encourage Pence to "do the right thing."[309]
- January 12:
- The committee asked Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily provide information; McCarthy said hours later he would not cooperate. In a letter to McCarthy, the committee noted that he spoke to Trump before the attack, reportedly advising him that attempts to object to the election results were "doomed to fail", and during the attack, imploring him to intervene, but after meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on January 28 the tone of McCarthy's public comments "changed markedly". Six days after the attack, McCarthy said in a radio interview that he supported a bipartisan commission and grand jury to investigate and that Trump "told me personally that he does have some responsibility." The next day, McCarthy stated on the House floor that Trump "bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters." The committee asked if Trump or his aides discussed the change in tone with McCarthy in consideration of an impeachment proceeding or subsequent investigation. McCarthy ultimately opposed the formation of a bipartisan January 6 commission and the House committee.[310][311][312][313][314][315]
- CNN reported the committee was investigating fraudulent certificates of ascertainment created by Trump allies in seven states in late December 2020. The documents had been published by the watchdog group American Oversight in March 2021 but received little attention until January 2022. Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel announced on January 14 that after a months-long investigation she had asked the U.S. Justice Department to open a criminal investigation.[316][317][318] Deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco confirmed several days later that the department was reviewing the matter.[319]
- January 19: The Supreme Court ruled that NARA could release the Trump White House documents to the committee.[320] It did not provide a reason, stating simply that it "denied" Trump's request. However, it did make a comment: As the Court of Appeals had acknowledged it would have denied Trump's request even had he still been in office, anything the Court of Appeals said about "Trump's status as a former President" was legally "nonbinding". The votes of the justices were not disclosed, except for the dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas.[321][322] (Thomas's wife, Ginni Thomas, had attended the January 6 rally, which was not reported until two months after the Supreme Court's decision.)[323]
- January 20:
- The Guardian reported that former Trump White House aide Stephanie Grisham had testified to the committee. She reportedly said that Trump held secret meetings in the White House residence in the weeks before the Capitol attack and that the Secret Service had received a presidential document reflecting Trump's intentions to march to the Capitol on January 6.[324]
- The committee asked Ivanka Trump for a voluntary interview. (She was interviewed, ultimately, on April 5.)[325][326]
- In the evening, the committee received the documents from NARA that they had been seeking since August.[130][131]
- January 23: Thompson disclosed the committee had been talking with former U.S. attorney general William Barr, as well as some Pentagon officials. (Months later, it was further clarified that the committee's Vice Chair, Liz Cheney, had spoken to Barr informally, at his home, for two hours in the fall of 2021.)[327] Barr had been a staunch ally of Trump until his December 1, 2020, announcement that the Justice Department had not found evidence of significant election irregularities. Trump was angered by the finding and announced Barr's resignation on Twitter two weeks later.[328][329][330]
- January 24: In an effort to withhold 19,000 emails subpoenaed by the committee, an attorney for John Eastman told a federal judge that they were protected by attorney-client privilege because Eastman had been representing Trump while participating in the January 2 conference call with legislators; the January 3 Oval Office meeting with Trump and Pence; and while working at the Willard Hotel. Eastman had not previously asserted privilege. The emails were stored on servers at Eastman's former employer, Chapman University, which had been subpoenaed and did not object to their release. The judge ordered the emails released to Eastman's legal team to identify which they asserted were privileged, before allowing a third party to scrutinize them.[331]
- January 26: Marc Short, who had been Pence's chief of staff, was interviewed by the committee.[332] They asked him about a conversation on January 5, 2021, in which he predicted that Trump would very soon publicly turn against Pence, likely posing a security risk to Pence. Short had spoken to Pence's lead Secret Service agent on that day to advise him of the risk.[333]
- January 28:
- The committee subpoenaed fourteen Republicans in seven states who falsely asserted they were the chairperson and secretary on slates of Trump electors presented on bogus certificates of ascertainment.[334]
- Former Trump deputy press secretary Judd Deere was subpoenaed. The committee stated in a letter to Deere that he had helped with "formulating White House's response to the January 6 attack as it occurred" and it wanted to discuss a January 5 Oval Office staff meeting he attended with Trump.[335]
- January 31: The New York Times reported there were two executive orders drafted in mid-December to allow Trump to order the seizure of voting machines, predicated on baseless allegations of foreign tampering advanced by Waldron, Flynn and Powell. One document ordered the Defense Department to seize the machines, while the other called for the Department of Homeland Security to conduct the seizures. Giuliani persuaded Trump to avoid the former, but at Trump's direction he asked Ken Cuccinelli, the second in command at DHS, if seizures were possible; Cuccinelli responded DHS did not have the authority. Trump had also suggested to attorney general Bill Barr in November that the Justice Department could conduct the seizures, which Barr quickly said the department would not do. The Times reported the next day that the committee was scrutinizing Trump's involvement.[336][337]
February 2022
- February 1: NARA notified Trump that it planned to deliver some of Pence's records to the committee on March 3.[338]
- February 2: Politico reported that in January 2022 the committee had subpoenaed the telephone records of Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and her husband. The Wards filed suit on February 1 to preclude their telephone carrier from releasing the records on February 4, asserting that as practicing physicians their confidential communications with patients would be compromised. Both Wards were "alternate electors" who signed the false Arizona certificate of ascertainment. Kelli Ward was among the most prominent of Republican officials who worked with Trump to stoke claims of election fraud and later was involved in sending the false certificates to Congress.[339]
- February 9: The committee subpoenaed Peter Navarro, a top Trump trade and manufacturing policy advisor, who had publicly said after the election that he worked with Steve Bannon and other Trump allies in an "operation" to delay the final certification of the election results in an effort to change the outcome.[340]
- February 15: Biden rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege over the White House visitor logs for dates including January 6, 2021. NARA had provided these visitor logs to the Biden White House for review. The day after Biden's approval, NARA notified Trump that they would deliver the visitor logs to the committee on March 3.[341]
- February 22: The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's challenge to the release of the NARA records. The records had already been delivered to the committee on January 20 after the court denied Trump's emergency request. The Supreme Court was now saying it would not hear Trump's case at all. It did not disclose its reasoning or decision process.[147]
- February 24: Politico reported a woman who was awaiting sentencing for breaching the Capitol asserted she also had extensive ties with the Pennsylvania Republican party, and had testified to committee investigators four times since October 2021. She said she had attended events "surrounded by Congressman, Senators, even Trump advisers" and was "promised future benefits, including a possible White House job." She also stated a "Trump adviser" asked her to help solicit affidavits alleging election fraud. She was the first indicted person to publicly disclose that her involvement extended beyond the attack and into the Republican establishment.[342]
March 2022
- March 1: The committee subpoenaed six attorneys who worked on various aspects of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, including by filing lawsuits, pressuring local election officials to change the results and drafting proposed executive orders to seize voting machines.[343]
- March 2: The committee stated in a federal court filing (document 160 in the John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson et al. case being heard in Southern Division of the United States District Court for the Central District of California) that the evidence it had acquired "provides, at minimum, a good-faith basis for concluding" Trump and his campaign violated multiple laws in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States by attempting to prevent Congress from certifying his defeat. The filing was made in the District Court for the Central District of California and included excerpts of depositions from multiple individuals. The filing was a challenge to Eastman's court efforts to shield his emails from the committee, as he asserted attorney-client privilege.[344][345][346] It contained a January 6, 2021, email exchange in which Pence's chief counsel Greg Jacob rebuked Eastman for his proposal to have Pence stop the vote certification. Jacob said that, "as a legal framework, it is a results-oriented position that you would never support if attempted by the opposition, and essentially entirely made up."[347]
- March 3: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée, was subpoenaed. The committee believed she was active in fundraising for the rallies preceding the attack and was in the Oval Office that day. She had abruptly ended a February voluntary interview because committee members chose to attend, while alleging that word of the interview had been leaked to the press.[348]
- March 4: Rudy Giuliani's attorneys suggested that he may not comply with his subpoena, given the committee's treatment of Eastman. Giuliani has asserted attorney-client privilege, the type of privilege that the committee asked a judge on March 2 to waive for Eastman.[349]
- March 9:
- The RNC sued to block the committee's subpoena of customer relationship management software company Salesforce. Through the subpoena, the committee had sought information about Republican National Committee fundraising.[350][351] (The RNC lost the lawsuit on May 1.)
- A federal judge said he would review 111 of John Eastman's emails from January 4–7, 2021, to determine whether they are protected by attorney-client or attorney work-product privilege.[352]
- March 28:
- The committee voted unanimously to hold Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro in contempt for refusing to testify.[353] The full House will vote on whether to refer them to the Department of Justice.[354]
- Judge David O. Carter reviewed Eastman's emails and said "the illegality of the plan was obvious" and ordered 101 emails to be turned over to the committee. Although neither Eastman nor Trump had been charged with a crime, the judge also wrote: "Based on the evidence, the Court finds that it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021."[355] Carter also wrote, referring to Kenneth Chesebro's December 13, 2020, email to Rudy Giuliani and others: "President Trump's team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action. The draft memo pushed a strategy that knowingly violated the Electoral Count Act".[356][357] Chesebro's email was later found to have included a proposal for Pence to recuse himself as president of the Senate for the electoral certification, claiming a conflict of interest because he was a candidate in the election, allowing Chuck Grassley or another senior senate Republican to assume his role. Upon opening the Arizona envelopes to find two conflicting elector slates, the senator would halt the certification and provide Arizona three ways to remedy the conflict, including allowing the Republican-controlled state legislature to appoint electors. Grassley told Roll Call on January 5 that "We don't expect [Pence] to be there," though Grassley's office quickly walked back the statement and said neither he nor his staff had been aware of the proposal.[358][359]
- March 29: Committee chair Thompson called it "concerning" that no record of telephone calls made by President Trump from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on January 6 had been found in eleven pages of records turned over to the committee. The committee was investigating whether Trump used other telephones or whether the complete phone log had been submitted.[360]
- March 31: Jared Kushner voluntarily spoke to the committee for six hours. He was the highest-ranking Trump administration official interviewed to date, as well as the first Trump family member to be interviewed.[361]
April 2022
- April 5: Ivanka Trump voluntarily spoke to the committee for eight hours.[362]
- April 8:
- The Guardian reported the committee had found evidence the Capitol attack included a coordinated assault by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, as well as possible coordination with Save America rally organizers.[363]
- CNN reported that documents the committee obtained included a text message Donald Trump Jr. sent to Meadows two days after the election. The text outlined paths to subvert the Electoral College process and ensure his father a second term. Trump Jr. wrote, "It's very simple. We have multiple paths. We control them all. We have operational control. Total leverage. Moral high ground. POTUS must start second term now." He continued, "Republicans control 28 states Democrats 22 states. Once again Trump wins," adding, "We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress 6 January 2021." Biden had not yet been declared the winner at the time of the text.[364]
- April 10: The New York Times reported committee members were in agreement that they had sufficient evidence to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department, but had grown divided on whether to do so. Previously the committee intended to make a referral to spur the Justice Department to conduct a criminal investigation, amid appearances it was hesitant, but recently concern arose that a referral might politically taint such an investigation that was now rapidly expanding. The need for a referral was also influenced by a ruling from federal judge David Carter regarding John Eastman two weeks earlier in which Carter stated it was "more likely than not" that Trump and Eastman had committed federal crimes. Carter also described the actions of Trump and Eastman as "a coup in search of a legal theory".[365][366][367] According to Republican committee member Liz Cheney in an interview, "It's absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, that they knew it was unlawful ... I think what we have seen is a massive and well-organized and well-planned effort that used multiple tools to try to overturn an election."[368][369]
- April 13:
- Former White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone and his deputy Patrick F. Philbin met with the committee after Trump gave them permission.[370]
- NARA archivist David S. Ferriero gave Trump advance notice that he planned to turn over more documents to the committee on April 28.[371]
- April 15: CNN published extensive Meadows text messages the committee had obtained, focused on communications with senator Mike Lee, as well as congressman Chip Roy. Both men were initially supportive of Trump's efforts to challenge the election but ultimately backed away. Lee was hopeful that Sidney Powell, whom he described to Meadows as a "straight shooter", would present strong evidence of election fraud during a press conference, but later grew disillusioned with her wild claims. He continued to express support for Eastman's proposal, endorsing the plan to have "a very small handful of states" submit an alternate slate of electors for Trump. Upon seeing no state legislatures convening to pursue that plan, Lee backed away from it and ultimately voted to approve the official electoral results. He then criticized senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley for continuing to challenge the results.[372][373]
- April 18: A court filing by Eastman indicated that he was still trying to withhold 37,000 pages of emails. Federal judge David Carter will again consider his request.[374]
- April 20: The Justice Department wrote to the committee with a broad request for transcripts of witness interviews "and of any additional interviews you conduct in the future", acknowledging that they could be used "as evidence in potential criminal cases, to pursue new leads or as a baseline for new interviews conducted by federal law enforcement officials." Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote the committee's lead investigator Timothy Heaphy, advising him that the transcripts "may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting."[12]
May 2022
- May 1: U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly rejected the RNC's attempt to protect its Salesforce fundraising data from being released to the committee. The committee had claimed that the RNC and the Trump campaign had sent emails through Salesforce to spread claims of election fraud which in turn "motivated" the attack on the Capitol. Acknowledging the committee's position, the judge ruled that the committee has the constitutional right to seek information through a subpoena, and he rejected the RNC's argument that the First Amendment shields its information.[375]
- May 2: The committee requested voluntary interviews with Representatives Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Ronny Jackson of Texas.[376] All three declined.[377]
- May 6: Rudy Giuliani, scheduled to testify on this day, backed out after requesting and being denied the right to record his testimony.[378]
- May 12: The committee issued subpoenas to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican congressmen Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs. The subpoenaing of House members by a committee had no modern precedent, apart from those of the House Ethics Committee. Unlike other subpoenas issued by the committee, the scope and contents of these were not disclosed, including whether documents or communications records were demanded.[379][380]
- May 17: The New York Times reported the committee was negotiating with the Justice Department to exchange the witness interview transcripts for information the DOJ has. This was also the first news report about the April 20 request.[12]
- May 19:
- The committee asked Republican congressman Barry Loudermilk to voluntarily meet with investigators, writing, "we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex" the day before the attack, adding that "reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021."[381] In Loudermilk's same-day reply, he said he gave a tour to a family with young children. He denied that it was "a suspicious group or 'reconnaissance tour'", and he did not indicate whether he intended to cooperate with the committee.[382]
- Former attorney general Bill Barr was reportedly in active negotiations to provide sworn testimony and formal transcribed testimony.[383][327]
- John Eastman revealed that he sometimes spoke directly with Trump about a strategy to overturn the election but also had six intermediaries who could reach Trump for him. In a court filing, Eastman sought to block the committee from receiving two of Trump's handwritten notes, communications from seven state legislators, a document discussing possible "scenarios for Jan. 6", and a document discussing possible election-related lawsuits.[384]
- May 20: Giuliani spoke with the committee for more than nine hours.[385]
June 2022
- June 2: Bill Barr gave in-person testimony behind closed doors for two hours.[386]
- June 3: The FBI arrested Peter Navarro. A grand jury's indictment for contempt of Congress was dated the previous day.[17] It was reported that the Justice Department had, by contrast, decided not to prosecute Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, both of whom Congress had also held in contempt months earlier.[387] Chairman Thompson and Vice Chair Cheney commented: "While today's indictment of Peter Navarro was the correct decision by the Justice Department, we find the decision to reward Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino for their continued attack on the rule of law puzzling. Mr. Meadows and Mr. Scavino unquestionably have relevant knowledge about President Trump's role in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the events of January 6th. We hope the Department provides greater clarity on this matter. If the Department's position is that either or both of these men have absolute immunity from appearing before Congress because of their former positions in the Trump Administration, that question is the focus of pending litigation. As the Select Committee has argued in District Court, Mark Meadows's claim that he is entitled to absolute immunity is not correct or justified based on the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Memoranda. No one is above the law."[388]
- June 7: Judge David Carter ruled that Eastman must disclose an additional 159 sensitive documents to the committee. Ten documents related to three December 2020 meetings by a secretive group strategizing about how to overturn the election, which included what Carter characterized as a "high-profile" leader. Carter noted one email in particular that contained what he found was likely evidence of a crime and ordered it disclosed under the crime-fraud exception of attorney-client privilege. The email content in question was a comment by an unidentified attorney that litigating a case regarding the January 6 session in Congress might "tank the January 6 strategy" and so the Trump legal team should avoid the courts.[389]
- June 9: The first of several public hearings by the committee are held. New footage of the attack is shown, and the first witnesses testified publicly.[390] It is revealed that Representative Scott Perry had requested a pardon at the end of the Trump administration.[391]
- June 12: The night before the second public hearing, committee members Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin told news outlets there is enough evidence to recommend that the Justice Department indict President Donald Trump.[392][393]
- June 13: In the second public hearing, the committee presented testimony that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election, but nevertheless promoted the false narrative to exploit donors, raking in "half a billion" dollars.[394][395]
- June 14: The third hearing, originally scheduled for June 15, has been postponed due to "technical issues" – the next scheduled hearing is on Thursday, June 16, at 10 a.m. (ET) – see January 6 hearings for schedule of hearings.[396]
- June 15:
- The committee released video of Representative Barry Loudermilk leading 15 people through the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, the day before the insurrection. One unnamed man is seen photographing Capitol passageways such as staircases. In a separate video taken the next day during the insurrection, the same man stood outside the Capitol building and screamed threats about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and others.[397] On May 19, when the committee had requested a voluntary interview with Loudermilk about the matter, he wrote a statement claiming he had given a tour to "a constituent family with young children" on January 5 who "did not enter the Capitol grounds on the 6th".[398] On June 15, Loudermilk issued a similar denial of responsibility, but this time he omitted the denial of their presence at the Capitol on January 6.[397] He also complained—despite continuing to refuse the committee's request for an interview—that the committee had not spoken to him directly about his activities.[399]
- The New York Times reported on an email exchange dated December 24, 2020, that the committee had obtained, between Eastman, attorney Kenneth Chesebro and Trump campaign officials. Eastman wrote he was aware of a "heated fight" within the Supreme Court about whether to hear a case, and participants in the email exchange discussed whether to file a Wisconsin case that four justices would agree to bring before the full court. Eastman wrote "the odds are not based on the legal merits but an assessment of the justices' spines." Chesebro responded the "odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be 'wild' chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way." Chesebro, a New York appellate attorney, had eleven days earlier emailed Rudy Giuliani with a proposal for Pence to recuse himself from the January 6 certification so a senior Republican senator could count fraudulent elector slates to declare Trump the victor.[400][401]
- June 16: Having recently acquired Ginni Thomas's emails with Eastman,[402] Thompson and Cheney reversed a previous decision and asked her for an interview.[403][404]
- June 17: After receiving another letter from the Justice Department, now characterizing transcripts of witness interviews as "critical" to its investigations, the committee said it was "engaged in a cooperative process to address" the DOJ's needs. Like the April 20 letter, this letter was signed by Matthew Graves and Kenneth Polite, with the addition of Matthew Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.[405]
- June 21: Politico reported the committee had subpoenaed documentary filmmaker Alex Holder the previous week. Holder had been granted extensive access to Trump and his inner circle and had filmed interviews with Trump before and after January 6. The existence of the footage had not been previously reported.[406] The resultant documentary miniseries, Unprecedented, was released two weeks later.[407]
- June 23: Live witnesses during this fifth public hearing were former officials of the Department of Justice during the Trump administration. They described how Trump tried to enlist the Justice Department in his fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election.[408] In videotaped testimony at the committee's fifth public hearing, it is revealed that Representatives Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, and Louie Gohmert asked for pardons at the end of the Trump administration. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene may also have asked for a pardon, according to a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.[409] It had been reported two months earlier that GOP Representative Matt Gaetz had asked for a blanket pardon;[410] his pardon request was also discussed at the hearing.
July 2022
- July 8:
- Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel, testified for eight hours. He had already given a closed-door interview on April 13 and had been subpoenaed on June 29.[411] Representative Zoe Lofgren said his testimony was consistent with that of other witnesses and that he spoke about Trump's "dereliction of duty".[412][413] Testimony was closed-door and videotaped. In response to some questions, he asserted executive privilege.[414]
- Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, offered – from jail – to testify to the committee, under the conditions that his testimony is presented without editing before an open forum, somewhere other than jail.[413]
- July 9: Trump wrote to Steve Bannon, saying he would "waive Executive Privilege for you, which allows you to go in and testify truthfully and fairly". (Bannon had been federally indicted on November 12, 2021, for refusing to comply with his subpoena and was anticipating imminent trial.) Bannon's lawyer immediately wrote to the committee: "Mr. Bannon is willing to, and indeed prefers, to testify at your public hearing." Trump's letter said his waiving of executive privilege is conditional upon Bannon reaching agreement with the committee on when and where he will testify.[415]
- July 11: A judge ruled that Steve Bannon's lawyers cannot argue that the committee's subpoena violated House rules nor that Trump ordered him to defy the subpoena.[416]
- July 12: At the seventh public hearing, Representative Liz Cheney revealed that Donald Trump had called one of the committee's witnesses. That person did not answer Trump's call. The witness was said to be someone who had not yet testified publicly.[88] The person was later further identified (but not named) as a White House support staffer who did not routinely speak to Trump and who had been speaking to the committee. The phone call had happened sometime within the previous two weeks, following Cassidy Hutchinson's public testimony.[417]
- July 15:
- July 18: Jury selection began in Steve Bannon's trial.[420]
- July 19:
- The Secret Service said it could not recover the text messages.[421] The National Archives called for an investigation.[422]
- Garrett Ziegler, a Trump White House aide to Peter Navarro, spoke to the committee. Afterward, he livestreamed himself calling the investigation a "Bolshevistic anti-White campaign...[that] see[s] me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare" and insulting Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, two Trump administration officials who have cooperated with the committee.[423]
- July 20: The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General informed the Secret Service that it was opening a criminal probe into the missing text messages.[424] This probe is separate from the House committee's subpoena. It was revealed that DHS had already known that the Secret Service had deleted its text messages.[159]
- July 22: Steve Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress for his refusal to testify and produce documents. He will be sentenced on October 21.[15]
- July 24: Committee Vice Chair Representative Liz Cheney said the committee would consider subpoenaing Ginni Thomas. They had already asked her on June 16 to meet with them voluntarily.[425][426]
- July 26: Chairman Thompson, in his capacity as Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and Chairwoman Maloney of the House Oversight & Reform Committee sent a joint-letter to DHS IG and Allison C. Lerner, Chair of Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to have Cuffari step aside from the investigation into the missing Secret Service text messages and have the CIGIE appoint another Inspector General to conduct the investigation.[427]
- July 28:
- It was reported that the committee had already interviewed Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin – as well as other former Cabinet officials, including Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller and Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen – and was likely to interview former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.[428]
- Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney spoke to the committee for about two and a half hours. He said he was asked about his involvement in the Trump campaign, his conversations around Election Day, and his messages on January 6.[429]
August 2022
- August 1: Chairman Thompson repeated his July 26 request, asking DHS IG Cuffari to "step aside". He demanded documents and interviews, citing evidence that Cuffari's staff, at the direction of Deputy Inspector General Thomas Kait, may no longer be trying to obtain the Secret Service messages.[430][431]
- August 8: The committee received Alex Jones's text messages. Jones's defense attorneys in the Heslin v. Jones defamation lawsuit by Sandy Hook parents had mistakenly given this telephone data to Mark Bankston, a plaintiff attorney, who then passed the data on to the committee. Bankston informed Judge Maya Guerra Gamble that the House committee had requested the text messages.[432][433][434]
- August 9: Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State, met with the committee. According to Representative Zoe Lofgren, he "answer[ed] questions for quite some time."[435]
- August 12: It was reported that the committee had recently spoken to Elaine Chao, Trump's Secretary of Transportation.[436]
- August 17: Mike Pence told an audience at Saint Anselm College that he would be open to testifying before the committee. He said: "If there was an invitation to participate, I'd consider it."[437]
- August 23:
- Robert O'Brien, Trump's national security adviser, testified.[438]
- Politico reports that aides to the committee had traveled to Copenhagen the previous week to view extensive documentary footage about Roger Stone. The documentary had been filmed by a crew led by Christoffer Guldbrandsen .[439][440] In June, Guldbrandsen had refused that FBI could access the footage directly, requiring a court order.[441]
- August 29: Representative Kinzinger stated in a Meet the Press interview that public hearings in September would focus on donations Trump solicited for the "Stop The Steal" movement but did not use for that purpose, as well as on the Secret Service's involvement in the events of January 6 and potentially on an alleged cover-up by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (as identified by the Oversight Committee and the Homeland Security Committee).[442]
- August 30: Tony Ornato retired as the assistant director of the Office of Training at the Secret Service. Hours later, Ornato told NBC News he would cooperate with the investigations of the select committee and of the Department of Homeland Security.[443][444] He had already testified to the select committee in March.[445]
September 2022
- September 1: The select committee requested Newt Gingrich's "voluntary cooperation" to appear for an interview about his communications with Trump's senior aides before and after the attack as well as his television ads pushing the big lie.[446][447]
- September 2: The select committee withdrew its subpoena against the Republican National Committee and Salesforce.[448][449]
- September 12:
- In an interview on the progressive podcast NO Lie w/ Brian Tyler Cohen Representative Raskin stated that the select committee was "taken totally by surprise by this new scandal". He also clarified that the select committee had no jurisdiction relating to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Representative Raskin also noted that the select committee's hearings could pertain to the missing text messages from the Secret Service as well as the Department of Defense.[450]
- According to a CNN report,[451] the Select Committee's has been meeting to decide what investigative threads should be prioritized or what should be abandoned. These include, but may not be limited to:
- Requesting the testimony of Mike Pence and Donald Trump, and how that should go.
- Whether to subpoena other high-profile individuals, including Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
- Referring the former president to the Department of Justice (which is expanding its own criminal probe into January 6[452]).
- What action should be taken against the five Republican lawmakers who have refused to cooperate with subpoenas: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, and Scott Perry.
- The multiple inquiry questions regarding the U.S. Secret Service, from the deletion of text messages to allegations that former Secret Service agent Tony Ornato was personally involved in efforts to discredit the testimony of Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
- September 13: Chairman Thompson told reporters that the Select Committee plans to have another public hearing in September 28, though the day may be subject to change.[453] Thompson also stated that the select committee intends to put together an interim report in mid-October.[454][455]
- September 14:
- Chairman Thompson informed reporters that the Secret Service has produced "thousands of exhibits" in response to the committee's July 15th subpoena. "It's a combination of a number of text messages, radio traffic, that kind of thing"[456][457] Rep. Zoe Lofgren said on MSNBC's, Deadline: White House "it's been a large volume of information that we really pressed hard for the agency to release."[458]
- The Select Committee told a federal judge in California in a filing late Wednesday that it needs another 3,200 pages of emails from John Eastman, "so that it may complete its efforts, including preparation of the final report" before the end of the year. Additionally, House Counsel Douglas Letter asked the judge to review the remaining batch of emails and decide whether Eastman's claims of executive privilege are valid.[459][460]
- September 15:
- The Select Committee released a snippet of radio communications between Oath Keepers, both on the ground and from members off-site. The communication confirms that Oath Keepers were not only keeping track of live coverage of the attack, with mentions of CNN reporting as well as live reactions from President Trump's tweets. The select committee did not disclose the names of the voices nor did they say how the audio was obtained.[461][462]
- Chairman Thompson stated that the select committee may make referrals to agencies other than the Justice Department, citing the Federal Election Commission as a potential recipient.[463]
- September 17: John McEntee, who served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump Administration, testified to the Select Committee that Rep. Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive presidential pardon relating to a Justice Department investigation examining whether Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws. Gaetz has not been charged with any crimes, and the investigation is ongoing. The Justice Department has been investigating Gaetz since early 2021 over allegations involving sex trafficking and prostitution, including whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.[464]
- McEntee did not respond to repeated requests for comment by the Washington Post. A spokesperson for Gaetz declined to address the testimony or whether Gaetz discussed a pardon with McEntee or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and instead responded that Gaetz never directly asked Trump for a pardon.[465]
- September 19: Vice Chair Liz Cheney and Representative Zoe Lofgren announced they would propose changes to the Electoral Count Act to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election in the future.[466]
- September 20: Rep. Cheney and Rep. Lofgren's bill, H.R. 8873 – The Presidential Election Reform Act,[467] was sent to the House Committee on Rules and passed with a 9–3 vote.[468]
- September 21:
- HR 8873 passed the House 229–203, with all Democrats in favor. Nine Republicans, most of whom had voted for Trump's 2nd impeachment, also voted in favor.[469] HR 8873 was said to have more detail than the Senate version, S.4573 – Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022.[470][471] Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, told the Washington Post this week that she preferred the Senate version, as it already had the approval of enough Senate Republicans to pass the filibuster threshold.[472]
- Ginni Thomas agreed to a voluntary interview.[473]
- September 23: In a 60 Minutes interview, Denver Riggleman, former senior technical adviser for the January 6 Committee as well as an ex-military intelligence officer and former Republican congressman from Virginia, stated that the White House switchboard connected a telephone call to a Capitol rioter on January 6, 2021. Riggleman states that he had begged the January 6 Committee to push harder to identify the numbers. A spokesperson for the select committee that they have "run down all the leads and digested and analyzed all the information that arose from his (Riggleman's) work."[474]
- September 25:
- Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) filed a lawsuit[475] against the Jan. 6 Select Committee after receiving a subpoena[476] calling him to testify before the committee Monday morning.[477]
- Representative Raskin confirmed on Meet The Press that the Select Committee is aware of the communication between the White House switchboard and a rioter during the attack on the capitol. Raskin commented "You know, I can't say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it."
- September 27: With Hurricane Ian approaching Florida, the Select Committee postponed its public hearing that had been scheduled for the next day, September 28. In a joint statement, Chairman Thompson and Vice Chair Cheney stated: "We're praying for the safety of all those in the storm's path."[478]
- September 28: The scheduled meeting was postponed because of Hurricane Ian.
- September 29: Ginni Thomas voluntarily testified in person. Chairman Thompson said Thomas still believes the election was stolen and that she answered "some questions".[479] Thomas also denied having discussed her post-election activities with her husband, a Supreme Court justice.[480]
October 2022
- October 4: Kelli Ward, Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, declined to answer questions during her subpoenaed testimony before the select committee.[481]
- October 6: The select committee announced they would hold the ninth public hearing on October 13.[482][483]
- October 7: U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa dismissed Ward's request to toss out the February 15 subpoena, clearing the way for the select committee to gain access to her cell phone records.[484][485]
- October 11: US Capitol Police are looking into a letter sent to Chairman Thompson that contains "concerning language" as well as a suspicious substance, according to law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter.[486] Capitol Police confirmed that there was not "anything dangerous inside", including no sign of powder. They are currently looking into who sent the letter and why.[487]
- October 13: The select committee voted unanimously, on live national TV, to subpoena Donald Trump.[482][488] Trump wrote a 14-page letter in reply.[489]
- October 19: Judge David Carter orders John Eastman to turn over an additional 33 documents to the select committee.[490] Eight emails were of particular importance: Carter said that four related to the crime of obstruction, as they suggest that Eastman and other attorneys aimed primarily to "delay or otherwise disrupt" the certification of the election without necessarily believing the legal arguments they were submitting, and another four discussed filing lawsuits as a delay tactic.[491][492] Carter ruled that they were "sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”[493]
- October 21:
- Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify.[494] He has 14 days to appeal or else must surrender by November 15.[495]
- The select committee formally subpoenaed former President Donald Trump for his testimony under oath as well as relevant records, having voted a week earlier to do so. They demanded that Trump provide documents by the morning of November 4 and testify on the morning of November 14.[496][13][497] Vice-Chair Cheney later said Trump's testimony must be closed-door and could not be broadcast live.[498] This is the first subpoena known to bear Vice-Chair Cheney's signature (as it as always been solely Chairman Thompson's signature in previous known subpoenas).
- October 25: Hope Hicks testified.[499]
- October 28: Eastman's lawyers gave the eight emails to the committee.[492]
- October 31: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols dismissed Mark Meadows’ lawsuit to quash the select committee's September 23, 2021 subpoena. Judge Nichols concluded that the subpoena was valid and justified under the Constitution's legislative powers.[500][501]
November 2022
- November 1: Vice-chair Liz Cheney said the committee was "in discussions" with Trump's lawyers regarding their subpoena for his testimony under oath.[502]
- November 2: The committee interviewed former Secret Service agent John Gutsmiedl.[178]
- November 3: The committee interviewed the former head of Pence’s security detail, Tim Giebels.[178]
Subpoenas
Some people testify and provide documents voluntarily, while others are legally compelled by subpoenas.[503][155][504] The committee does not always publicly announce the subpoenas it issues.[102]
Notably:
- In 2021, the committee requested the telephone records of more than 100 people,[505] some of whom sued.[506]
- On May 12, 2022, the committee subpoenaed five House Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.[379] Representative Thompson, the committee chair, had told NBC's Meet the Press on January 2, 2022, that they would have "no reluctance" to subpoena sitting members of Congress once they determined they had the authority.[507][508]
- On July 15, 2022, the committee subpoenaed the U.S. Secret Service. This was the first time it had subpoenaed an agency of the executive branch. The subpoena was issued after it became known the Service had erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, after the DHS inspector general had requested them for an after-action review of the Service involving the January 6 attack. Though the Service claimed the deletions were part of a long-planned "device migration", the inspector general said he believed the Service was not fully cooperating.[418]
- On October 21, 2022, the committee subpoenaed former President Trump.[13] Given Trump's history, it seems unlikely that he will comply. In February 2021, for Trump's second impeachment trial, the House's lead impeachment manager, Representative Jamie Raskin, asked him to testify about the events of January 6, but he refused.[509] Trump has consistently urged other Republicans not to cooperate with the House committee's investigation, and he has not cooperated with other major investigations of his own alleged crimes in other matters.[510] If he does not comply by the deadlines and if the full House votes to hold him in criminal contempt of Congress before the new Congress begins on January 3, 2023, DOJ could charge him.[511]
The select committee, as of October 2022, is still in deliberations regarding calling Pence.[512][513] Thompson had told reporters on April 4 they would not bother with this, especially having already confirmed important information through Pence's former aides Marc Short and Greg Jacob.[362]
Name | Role | Subpoenaed | Deposition | Outcome |
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Telecom carriers | call detail records for more than 100 people | summer/fall 2021[277] | N/A | N/A |
Mark Meadows | former White House chief of staff | September 23, 2021 | orig. October 15, 2021 November 12, 2021 |
did not appear;[220] later cooperated, then stopped[514][275] and sued;[515] the judge dismissed the lawsuit on October 31, 2022[101] |
Daniel Scavino | former White House deputy chief of staff for communications | September 23, 2021 | orig. October 15, 2021 postponed six times[516][354] |
|
Kash Patel | former chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller | September 23, 2021 | orig. October 14, 2021 December 9, 2021 |
appeared[517][518][519] |
Stephen Bannon | former Trump adviser | September 23, 2021 | October 14, 2021 | indicted[261] |
Amy Kremer | founder and chair of Women For America First; mother of Kylie Kremer | September 29, 2021 | October 29, 2021[520] | |
Kylie Kremer | founder and executive director of Women For America First; daughter of Amy Kremer | September 29, 2021 | October 29, 2021[520] | |
Cynthia Chafian | submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6 rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition | September 29, 2021 | October 28, 2021[504] | |
Caroline Wren | "VIP Advisor" for January 6, per rally permit | September 29, 2021 | October 26, 2021[504] | |
Maggie Mulvaney | "VIP Lead" for January 6, per rally permit | September 29, 2021 | October 26, 2021[504] | |
Justin Caporale | Event Strategies, Inc.; "Project Manager" for January 6, per rally permit | September 29, 2021 | October 25, 2021[504] | |
Tim Unes | Event Strategies, Inc.; "Stage Manager" for January 6, per rally permit | September 29, 2021 | October 25, 2021[504] | |
Megan Powers | MPowers Consulting LLC; "Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance" for January 6, per rally permit | September 29, 2021 | October 21, 2021[504] | |
Hannah Salem Stone | logistics for rally | September 29, 2021 | October 22, 2021[504] | |
Lyndon Brentnall | "on-site supervisor" for the rally; owner of a security company | September 29, 2021 | October 22, 2021[504] | |
Katrina Pierson | national spokesperson for the 2016 Trump campaign | September 29, 2021 | November 3, 2021[504] | |
Ali Alexander | connected to "Stop the Steal" rally permit | October 7, 2021 | October 29, 2021[504] | reportedly cooperating as of April 2022[521] |
Nathan Martin | connected to "Stop the Steal" rally permit | October 7, 2021 | October 28, 2021[504] | |
Stop the Steal LLC | organization; George B. Coleman, "custodian of records", will be deposed | October 7, 2021 | N/A[522] | |
Jeffrey Clark | former DOJ official | October 13, 2021 | October 29, 2021[504] | appeared November 5; refused to testify, invoking executive privilege;[523] will be rescheduled in 2022 when he is no longer ill[524] |
William Stepien | Trump 2020 campaign manager | November 8, 2021 | December 13, 2021[504] | |
Jason Miller | Trump campaign senior advisor | November 8, 2021 | December 10, 2021[504] | |
John Eastman | conservative lawyer and former professor | November 8, 2021 | December 8, 2021[504] | Fifth Amendment (refused to testify)[525] |
Michael Flynn | former Trump national security advisor | November 8, 2021 | orig. December 6, 2021 postponed[526][504] |
Fifth Amendment (refused to testify) when he appeared March 10, after unsuccessfully suing to invalidate the subpoena[527][506][528] |
Angela McCallum | Trump campaign executive assistant | November 8, 2021 | November 30, 2021[504][529] | |
Bernard Kerik | present at the meetings at the Willard Hotel | November 8, 2021 | December 3, 2021[504] | appeared voluntarily on January 13, 2022[530] |
Nicholas Luna | personal assistant to Trump | November 9, 2021 | orig. December 6, 2021 postponed[526][504] |
|
Molly Michael | Oval Office operations coordinator | November 9, 2021 | December 2, 2021[504] | |
Ben Williamson | senior advisor to chief of staff Mark Meadows | November 9, 2021 | December 2, 2021[504] | |
Christopher Liddell | deputy chief of staff | November 9, 2021 | November 30, 2021[504] | |
John McEntee | White House personnel director | November 9, 2021 | December 15, 2021[504] | |
Keith Kellogg | national security adviser to Pence | November 9, 2021 | December 1, 2021[504] | testified[531] |
Kayleigh McEnany | former White House Press Secretary | November 9, 2021 | December 3, 2021[504] | appeared on January 12[532] |
Stephen Miller | senior advisor for policy | November 9, 2021 | December 14, 2021[504] | |
Cassidy Hutchinson | special assistant for legislative affairs | November 9, 2021 | December 1, 2021[504] | testified four times behind closed doors,[533] including February 23 and March 7, 2022,[534] before speaking at the committee's sixth public hearing on June 28, 2022 |
Kenneth Klukowski | senior counsel to assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark | November 9, 2021 | November 29, 2021[504] | |
Alex Jones | InfoWars host | November 22, 2021 | December 18, 2021[535] | Fifth Amendment (refused to testify)[536] |
Roger Stone | Republican operative | November 22, 2021 | December 17, 2021 | Fifth Amendment (refused to testify)[537] |
Duston Stockton | Stop the Steal organizer | November 22, 2021 | December 14, 2021[538] | |
Jennifer Lawrence | Stop the Steal organizer | November 22, 2021 | December 15, 2021 | |
Taylor Budowich | Trump spokesman; communications director of Save America PAC | November 22, 2021 | December 16, 2021 | testified; sued to block release of financial records, but the committee had already received them[539][540] |
Oath Keepers | militia organization | November 23, 2021[541] | N/A | |
Proud Boys | far-right organization | November 23, 2021 | December 7, 2021 | |
Stewart Rhodes | Oath Keepers leader | November 23, 2021 | December 14, 2021 | indicted by federal prosecutors; charged with seditious conspiracy;[542] trial set for July 2022[543] |
Enrique Tarrio | Proud Boys leader | November 23, 2021 | December 15, 2021 | indicted by federal prosecutors; charged with conspiracy[542] and sedition[544] |
Robert Patrick Lewis | 1st Amendment Praetorian[545] | November 23, 2021 | December 16, 2021 | |
Marc Short | Pence's chief of staff | November 2021 | January 26, 2022[546] | testified; on December 6, 2021, it was reported he had been subpoenaed "weeks" earlier[547] and may have received a "friendly" subpoena to encourage cooperation.[547][548] |
Max Miller | former Trump aide | December 10, 2021 | January 6, 2022[549][550] | |
Robert Peede Jr. | former Trump deputy assistant | December 10, 2021 | January 7, 2022[549][550] | |
Brian Jack | former Trump director of political affairs | December 10, 2021 | January 10, 2022[549][550] | |
Bryan Lewis | Trump aide who helped plan rally | December 10, 2021 | January 4, 2022[549][550] | |
Ed Martin | Trump ally who helped plan rally | December 10, 2021 | January 5, 2022[549][550] | |
Kimberly Fletcher | ties to "Moms for America", helped plan rallies | December 10, 2021 | January 4, 2022[549][550] | |
Phil Waldron | author of the PowerPoint presentation titled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN" | December 16, 2021 | January 17, 2022[551] | |
Andy Surabian | adviser to Donald Trump Jr. | January 11, 2022[540] | January 31, 2022[552] | |
Arthur Schwartz | adviser to Donald Trump Jr. | January 11, 2022[540] | February 1, 2022[553] | |
Ross Worthington | former White House official; helped Trump draft his January 6 rally speech | January 11, 2022[540][554] | February 2, 2022[555] | |
Meta, Alphabet, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit | Social media companies | January 13, 2022[554] | N/A | |
Rudy Giuliani | former Trump personal attorney | January 18, 2022[556] | orig. February 8, 2021 postponed[557][558] |
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Sidney Powell | former Trump attorney | January 18, 2022[556] | February 8, 2022[559] | sued to block release of phone records[560] |
Jenna Ellis | former Trump attorney | January 18, 2022[556] | February 8, 2022[561] | |
Boris Epshteyn | former Trump advisor | January 18, 2022[556] | February 8, 2022[562] | |
Eric Trump | son of Trump | reported January 18, 2022 | phone metadata[563] | records obtained[563] |
Kimberly Guilfoyle | Trump advisor, fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. | reported January 18, 2022 | phone metadata[563] | records obtained[563] |
Nick Fuentes | Groypers leader, White Nationalist Activist, podcast host | January 19, 2022[564] | February 9, 2022[565] | |
Patrick Casey | Far-right activist | January 19, 2022[564] | February 9, 2022[566] | |
Nancy Cottle | Listed as chairperson for Arizona on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 16, 2022[567] | |
Loraine B. Pellegrino | Listed as secretary for Arizona on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 16, 2022[567] | |
David Shafer | Listed as chairperson for Georgia on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 21, 2022[567] | |
Shawn Still | Listed as secretary for Georgia on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 21, 2022[567] | |
Kathy Berden | Listed as chairperson for Michigan on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 22, 2022[567] | |
Mayra Rodriguez | Listed as secretary for Michigan on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 22, 2022[567] | |
Jewll Powdrell | Listed as chairperson for New Mexico on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 23, 2022[567] | |
Deborah W. Maestas | Listed as secretary for New Mexico on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 23, 2022[567] | |
Michael J. McDonald | Listed as chairperson for Nevada on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 24, 2022[567] | |
James DeGraffenreid | Listed as secretary for Nevada on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 24, 2022[567] | |
Bill Bachenberg | Listed as chairperson for Pennsylvania on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 25, 2022[567] | |
Lisa Patton | Listed as secretary for Pennsylvania on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 25, 2022[567] | |
Andrew Hitt | Listed as chairperson for Wisconsin on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 28, 2022[567] | |
Kelly Ruh | Listed as secretary for Wisconsin on false slate of Trump electors | January 28, 2022[334] | February 28, 2022[567] | |
Judd Deere | Trump deputy White House press secretary | January 28, 2022[335] | ||
Peter Navarro | Trump economic advisor | February 9, 2022[340] | March 2, 2022[568] | indicted[17] |
Laura Cox | Former Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman | February 15, 2022[569] | March 8, 2022 | |
Kelli Ward | Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman | February 15, 2022[569] | March 8, 2022 | Fifth Amendment (refused to answer substantive questions); appeared October 4, 2022[570] |
Gary Michael Brown | Deputy Director of Election Day Operations for 2020 Trump campaign | February 15, 2022[569] | March 9, 2022 | |
Douglas V. Mastriano | Pennsylvania state senator, planned false slate of Trump electors | February 15, 2022[569] | March 10, 2022 | appeared briefly on August 9, but did not answer questions;[571] complied with request for documents; used campaign donations to pay lawyer;[572] sued[573] |
Michael A. Roman | Director of Election Day Operations for 2020 Trump campaign | February 15, 2022[569] | March 14, 2022 | |
Mark Finchem | Arizona state legislator, "Stop the Steal" backer | February 15, 2022[569] | March 15, 2022 | |
Salesforce.com | Software company, RNC's fundraising platform | February 23, 2022[574] | March 16, 2022 | The Select Committee dropped its subpoena on Salesforce[449] |
Kenneth Chesebro | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election | March 1, 2022[575] | March 22, 2022 | |
Christina Bobb | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election, OANN host | March 1, 2022[575] | March 23, 2022 | |
Kurt Olsen | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election | March 1, 2022[575] | March 24, 2022 | sued to block subpoena March 24, 2022[576] |
Phill Kline | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election, OANN host | March 1, 2022[575] | March 25, 2022 | |
Cleta Mitchell | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election | March 1, 2022[575] | March 28, 2022 | |
Katherine Friess | Attorney who worked on efforts to overturn election | March 1, 2022[575] | March 29, 2022 | |
Kimberly Guilfoyle | Trump advisor, fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. | March 3, 2022[348] | March 15, 2022[577] | |
Scott Perry | Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district | May 12, 2022[578] | May 26, 2022 | |
Andy Biggs | Representative for Arizona's 5th congressional district | May 12, 2022[578] | May 26, 2022 | |
Jim Jordan | Representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district | May 12, 2022[578] | May 27, 2022 | |
Kevin McCarthy | House Minority Leader | May 12, 2022[578] | May 31, 2022 | |
Mo Brooks | Representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district, spoke at rally | May 12, 2022[578] | May 31, 2022 | |
Pat Cipollone | White House Counsel | June 29, 2022[579] | July 6, 2022 | scheduled for closed-door, videotaped testimony on July 8, 2022[411] |
U.S. Secret Service | Department of Homeland Security agency; erased text messages |
July 15, 2022[580] | N/A | |
Patrick Philbin | White House deputy counsel under Pat Cipollone | reported August 3, 2022[581] | ||
Robin Vos | Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly | September 23, 2022[582] | September 26, 2022 | sued; did not appear[583] |
Donald Trump | former President | October 21, 2022[13] | November 14, 2022 (demanded) |
Reactions
Prior to committee formation
According to several reports, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had warned Republican members that if they allowed Speaker Pelosi to appoint them to the select committee, they would be stripped of all their other committee assignments and should not expect to receive any future ones from Pelosi. In an interview with Forbes, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said "Who gives a shit" and added, "When you've got people who say crazy stuff and you're not gonna make that threat, but you make that threat to truth-tellers, you've lost any credibility."[584]
House Leader McCarthy called the rejection of his initial recommendations "unprecedented" in a phone call with Pelosi. In a press conference, he labeled her a "lame duck speaker" out to destroy the institution. The Freedom Caucus pushed for McCarthy to file a motion to vacate the speakership, and punish Cheney and Kinzinger for accepting their appointments to the committee.[585][586] McCarthy later dubbed them "Pelosi Republicans".[204][205] Republicans also stated that if they won the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections, they would come after Democratic committee assignments, targeting Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar.[586] Steve Scalise stated that Pelosi had removed any credibility from the committee for rejecting their recommended members and opted instead for a political narrative.[586] Republicans Scott Perry, Chip Roy, and Kelly Armstrong expressed their disdain for both Cheney and Kinzinger and questioned their loyalty to the House Republican Conference, pushing for them to be stripped of their committee assignments.[204] Jim Banks and Mike Rogers stated that the two GOP committee members would be stuck to Pelosi's narrative of events.[204] Cheney and Kinzinger both dismissed comments from their colleagues.[204]
After Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's picks for the committee and appointed Adam Schiff, The Wall Street Journal editorial board criticized her; while acknowledging that McCarthy's picks were partisan, it claimed that Schiff had "lied repeatedly about the evidence concerning the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia." The editorial board posited, "if Mrs. Pelosi thinks the evidence for her conclusion is persuasive, why would she not want to have it tested against the most aggressive critics?"[587] On the other hand, the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board said: "Pelosi's chief mistake was not also rejecting Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, who, like Jordan, Banks and a majority of House Republicans, voted to overturn the election on the day of the insurrection. No serious investigation of the riot can be undertaken by those who shared the goals of the rioters." It added that "McCarthy and company killed an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the attack even though the Republicans' top negotiator agreed to the terms."[588]
After committee formation
Some House Republicans—including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Representative Jim Jordan—said they did not watch the committee's first hearing on July 27, 2021. Representative Matthew M. Rosendale said he watched Representative Liz Cheney speak (and was "quite disappointed") but did not watch the police officers' testimony. Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik would not say whether she watched.[589]
In late August 2021, after the committee asked telecommunications and social media companies to retain certain records, McCarthy declared that if the companies "turn over private information" to the House committee, then the companies are "in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States", and that a future Republican legislative majority will hold the companies "fully accountable".[590] In response to McCarthy's comment, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint on September 3 with the chief counsel of the Office of Congressional Ethics. CREW noted that the subpoena was legally valid and claimed that McCarthy was illegally obstructing the investigation insofar as he was "threatening retaliation" against the telecommunications companies.[591] Eleven House Republicans who were associated with the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally sent a September 3 letter to thirteen telecommunications companies stating they "do not consent to the release of confidential call records or data" and threatened legal action against what they asserted were unconstitutional subpoenas.[592][593][594][595]
During a September 2 television interview, McCarthy was asked about "how deeply [Trump] was involved", to which he replied that the FBI and Senate committees had found "no involvement".[596] He and other Republicans had cited an exclusive Reuters report that unnamed current and former law enforcement officials said the FBI had found "scant evidence" of an organized plot to overturn the election. In a September 4 statement, Thompson and Cheney said the committee had queried executive branch agencies and congressional committees investigating the matter and "it's been made clear to us that reports of such a conclusion are baseless."[597][598]
On October 16, The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson criticized the committee's glacial progress, stating that "I don't believe that they're pursuing this with the degree of vigor that merits the type of targets they're talking about. We're dealing with people like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and Ali Alexander ... They've had three months, they've done almost nothing."[599]
Representative Scott Perry said on December 21 that he would not cooperate with the committee because, in his view, the committee itself was "illegitimate, and not duly constituted under the rules of the US House of Representatives."[600] Similarly, on January 23, 2022, Newt Gingrich said on Fox News that he believed the committee was breaking laws, but he did not specify which laws.[601]
On December 23, Laurence Tribe, American legal scholar and University Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law at Harvard University, and colleagues published in The New York Times about Attorney General Merrick Garland: "Only by holding the leaders of the Jan. 6 insurrection – all of them – to account can he secure the future and teach the next generation that no one is above the law. If he has not done so already, we implore the attorney general to step up to that task."[602]
In June 2022, Fox News announced that it would not carry live coverage of the hearings, relegating it to its sister channel Fox Business and local Fox network affiliates.[603][604][605] Fox News instead carried special editions of Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity (the former notably airing commercial-free) that largely featured criticism of the hearing,[605][606] with Carlson deeming it "propaganda", and lower thirds describing it as a "sham", "show trial" and "political theater".[607] The Washington Post reported that members of the committee were given increased security due to greater threats made against them.[608]
Polling
According to a poll conducted in July 2021 by Politico, a majority of Americans support the January 6 investigation, with 58% overall supporting and 29% opposing; 52% of Republicans polled opposed it.[609] When Politico repeated the poll in December 2021, again, three-fifths supported the committee, including 82% of Democrats, 58% of independents, and 40% of Republicans.[610]
In an August 2021 Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, 58% of American voters said they thought the committee was biased, while 42% thought it was fair.[611] In September 2021, a Pew Research poll found that only 11% of American adults said they were very confident the committee would be fair and reasonable while another 34% were somewhat confident, while a 54% majority said they were not too confident (32%) or not at all confident (22%). Confidence was highly partisan: Nearly two-thirds of Democrats and less than a quarter of Republicans said they were at least somewhat confident.[612]
Just greater than half of Americans believe that Trump should face criminal charges for his role in the attack. A Washington Post–ABC News poll taken a week after the attack found 54% giving this response, and over a year later, it had not changed substantially, as 52% gave the same response to the same organization's poll conducted April 24–28, 2022. The division is partisan: five out of six Democrats support charging Trump, while five out of six Republicans oppose doing so.[613]
NBC News found that the percentage of Americans who believe that Trump was solely or mainly responsible for the January 6 attack dropped from 52% in January 2021 to 45% in May 2022. A decrease was found within all subgroups: Democrats, Republicans, and independents.[614] Opinions changed after the committee began public hearings. An Ipsos poll conducted June 17–18, 2022, found that 58% of Americans believe Trump is significantly responsible for the attack on the Capitol.[615] An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted June 23–27, 2022, found that 48% of Americans believe Trump should be charged with a crime.[616]
The same Ipsos poll on June 17–18, 2022, also found that 60% of Americans believe the committee's investigation is fair and impartial.[615] Similarly, an Economist/YouGov poll conducted June 18–21, 2022, found that 78% of Democrats, but only 15% of Republicans and 37% of independents, believe the committee's investigation is "legitimate". 78% of Democrats, but only 22% of Republicans and 41% of independents, said they "strongly" or "somewhat" approved of the committee's work.[617]
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