Trump news latest: Don Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ray Epps, Stephanie Grisham Jan 6 transcripts released

in his January 6 committee transcript, Donald Trump Jr is asked about the $250m raised by the Trump campaign after the election and what happened to all that money.

The former president’s son says he does not know.

Donald Trump Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle invoiced Turning Point $60,000 for their appearance at the January 6 rally at the Ellipse according to testimony by the former president’s eldest son. He is not aware if they were paid.

Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday morning to launch a new attack against the FBI – citing many of his favourite baseless claims.

He wrote: “So, if the FBI illegally suppressed all of the really bad information on the Biden family (laptop!) at a level never seen before, (“it was Russian disinformation,” they said), while at the same time not letting the many positive things accomplished by “Trump” get out to the public, but would instead put out “bad stuff,” that would be the very definition of the Government’s RIGGING of an Election. Pollsters projected this Scam made a difference of Millions of votes. What are the CONSEQUENCES?”

Even in the age of smartphones, apparently, you still call the operator, even if the president is your father.

Failing that or in an emergency such as a violent assault on Congress, you text the chief of staff as Donald Trump Jr told the January 6 committee — in this case, Mark Meadows.

Mr Trump told the panel that he texted Mr Meadows telling him that his father need to “condemn this s***” as the Capitol was attacked.

Former First Lady Melania Trump did not trust her husband’s final chief of staff and was angered by the way he’d allow “harmful” people access to him and the White House’s private family quarters, her long-serving ex-spokesperson and former top White House aide has said.

Andrew Feinberg has the latest from Washington, DC.

The White House has warned top Republicans who will chair the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that they will have to renew any requests for documents or other oversight requests once the GOP formally takes control of the chamber at the start of the 118th Congress next week.

The Independent obtained letters to Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan — the incoming chairmen of both committees — from Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber, in which the White House lawyer said the flurry of demands for documents made by the GOP during the 117th Congress carry no legal or constitutional weight because of longstanding executive branch policy which requires such requests to come from the House majority.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

The organizer of the rally that preceded the Capitol riot reportedly threw his MAGA-world peer Charlie Kirk to the wolves during a meeting with the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot.

Ali Alexander, who organised “Stop the Steal,” told the House Select Committee during a closed-door deposition last year that right-wing media figure and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was among those at fault for the riot.

Read more about the infighting and backstabbing taking place on the far right in The Independent:

Ray Epps, a Trump supporter and retired US Marine who found himself at the centre of a conspiracy theory that he was an undercover federal agent at the Capitol on January 6 to incite a false flag operation, told the committee about the impact of those accusations on his family.

He said he was saddened that leaders he respected tried to ride the baseless accusations for their own gain and that his family has been the subject of death threats and his business has suffered.

In her deposition to the Januayr 6 committee, Stephanie Grisham said former first lady Melania Trump “didn’t trust Mark Meadows” among other Trumpworld figures, and expressed frustration that the random people he let up to the White House residence would encounter her in a bathrobe.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser told the January 6 select committee that the DC Police Chief was trying to contact Steven Sund, the chief of USCP, and “couldn’t make contact with them.”