Pence to refuse to certify the election.Īlso summoned was Mr. Trump’s “body men” who was in the Oval Office as the former president pressured Mr. It is demanding testimony from Nicholas Luna, one of Mr. The latest round of subpoenas reflected the panel’s effort to ascertain the former president’s every move on the day of the riot. 6 and directed his associates to refuse to cooperate with the committee, citing executive privilege. Trump himself, who has sued in federal court to block the release of documents related to Jan. 5, has claimed that he had departed his room at the Willard to leave town as rioters stormed the Capitol, after he decided against a plan to “lead a march” from the White House Ellipse to the Capitol, according to video posted to social media.Īt the center of the investigation is Mr. 6,” Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and the vice chairwoman of the committee, said during a recent hearing. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on Jan. 5, when plans were discussed to try to block Congress’s formalization of the election the next day. Bannon about his presence at a meeting at the Willard on Jan. Bannon, whom the House voted to hold in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee, predicted on his podcast a day before the riot that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.” 6, and whether they took any steps to either encourage or discourage the storming of the Capitol. Trump or anyone in his inner circle had foreknowledge that violence was a possibility on Jan. The most difficult piece of the investigation involves unearthing evidence that Mr. Eastman, met in the hours before the riot.įoreknowledge of violence. Trump’s allies who were involved in the effort to overturn the election, including Stephen K. The panel is pressing for answers about gatherings at the Willard and other Washington hotels where Mr. Investigators are scrutinizing the groups that funded the protests that preceded the violence, which involved rioters from at least 44 states, and promoted and spread lies online that helped radicalize the crowd. Working out of a nondescript office building at the bottom of Capitol Hill, the committee’s investigators have divided themselves into color-coded teams to pursue several avenues of inquiry.
Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was involved in pushing false claims of widespread election fraud. Trump and White House officials coordinated with organizers of the rally whose attendees would later storm the Capitol and how deeply Mr. The panel has learned details about how “Stop the Steal” rally organizers used deception to obtain permits from the Capitol Police to hold rallies near the Capitol how Mr. More than 150 witnesses have been interviewed, some of whom surprised investigators by proactively contacting the committee to testify, according to two people familiar with the investigation who described the confidential inquiry on the condition of anonymity. 6 attack as the panel intensifies its scrutiny into whether there was any coordination or tie between those pushing a legal strategy to overturn the election results and those who stormed the Capitol that day as Congress met to count the electoral votes to formalize Mr. What unfolded at the Willard Hotel in the hours before the Capitol riot has become a prime focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger J. from assuming the presidency - had set up a kind of command post. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joseph R. In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Mr. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.” Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “The truth is going to come out,” said Mr. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House. WASHINGTON - “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T.
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