Trump news latest: Trump reacts as Jan 6 panel withdraws subpoena

The House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 has released another batch of interview and deposition transcripts.

Included in the latest release are some big names from Trumpworld, including Donald Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Stephen Miller.

There are also White House insiders that turned against Trump including Stephanie Grisham and Alyssa Farah Griffin, and notably Ray Epps, a pro-Trump attendee of the January 6 rally who marched on the Capitol and was accused of working for the FBI by rightwing conspiracists.

Here’s the full list of what was released today:

The Independent will bring you highlights from these extensive interviews with key players relating to the events surrounding the Capitol riot.

White House staff began distributing a bizarre statement claiming then-president Donald Trump was spending his days making “many calls” and having “many meetings” in lieu of releasing a detailed daily schedule after Mr Trump discovered the decades-old practice during the final weeks of his term in office, a former press aide to Mr Trump has said.

The amusing revelation is a sign of just how little Mr Trump understood (or, more accurately, cared) about the inner working of his job nearly four years after being sworn in.

Marjorie Taylor Greene told Donald Trump days before the Capitol insurrection that some of her supporters who subscribed to QAnon were going to the January 6 rally, according to testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

The remarks by Ms Hutchinson were from her May and June interviews given to the Jan 6 Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riots.

The committee released additional sets of transcripts that revealed Mr Trump’s discussions involving the far-right conspiracy theory group.

Former president Donald Trump took to social media to attack Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Kentucky Republican’s wife, who served as Mr Trump’s transportation secretary during his administration, after Mr McConnell declined to block a government funding bill.

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

“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,” he thundered.

“Pollsters projected this Scam made a difference of Millions of votes. What are the CONSEQUENCES?”

Donald Trump has slammed the Jan 6 special committee after it decided to withdraw its subpoena as it concluded its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.

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:

President Joe Biden was so disturbed by the Secret Service’s handling of text messages sought by the House January 6 select committee that he stopped speaking candidly in the presence of special agents assigned to his protection detail, a new book on the Biden White House has revealed.

The agency has been sharply criticised by lawmakers and others after text messages sent by agents on the day of the attack vanished during a scheduled software update — even after the Secret Service was instructed specifically to preserve them.

Read more from Andrew Feinberg:

Donald Trump has reacted to the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 attack withdrawing its subpoena to him.

In a statement on Truth Social, Mr Trump wrote: “Was just advised that the Unselect Committee of political Thugs has withdrawn the Subpoena of me concerning the January 6th Protest of the CROOKED 2020 Presidential Election.”

“They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court. Perhaps the FBI’s involvement in RIGGING the Election played into their decision. In any event, the Subpoena is DEAD!”

The panel will be dissolved after the new Congress takes office on 3 January.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to Mark Meadows, has revealed in her testimony to the Jan 6 House committee how the ex-chief of staff routinely burned documents in his office.

A fresh batch of transcripts released by the committee investigating the Capitol riots on Tuesday revealed Ms Hutchinson’s testimony from May in which she had told the committee that she saw Mr Meadows burn documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times – about once or twice a week – between December 2020 and mid January 2021.