Washington (AP) — Former White House adviser Pat Siporone “consistent” with previous witness testimony that appeared earlier on Friday. January 6th Committee, One lawmaker said a tough all-day private session that produced new information to be revealed at future hearings.
Siporone A very popular witness, Especially after the bomb testimony that Donald Trump tried to prevent the 2020 election results from being challenged and to prevent the participation of the defeated president. A violent mob who surrounded the Capitol, They said.
“He was consistent with the testimony of other witnesses,” D-Calif Rep. Zoe Lofgren told CNN late Friday.
Lofgren, a member of the committee, stated that “consistency is not the same as confirming.” In some cases, a former White House lawyer did not attend the event described or “did not remember exactly” the details, she said.
“He was frank to the Commission, he paid attention to his answer,” Lofgren said. “And I think we’ve learned a few things, which will be unfolded at future inquiries.”
The central role of Siporone is Surprise Committee Hearing Last Week Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson He described his repetitive efforts to prevent Trump from joining the mob at the Capitol.
At a spectacular hearing, Hutchinson told her that if the defeated president went to the Capitol in an attempt to stop Joe Biden’s election, Trump would be prosecuted for “all possible crimes.” He testified that he had warned.
According to Hutchinson, Siporone urged her to persuade her boss, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, not to let Trump go to the Capitol.
Hutchinson testified that she was told Trump got angry When he was finally prevented by his security team from going to the Capitol that day. The Secret Service challenged some of her accounts detailing Trump’s actions when she said she had assaulted the driver in the president’s convoy.
At another important time, if Siporone was part of a meeting with White House judicial ministry officials on Sunday before January 6, and proceeded with plans to establish a new deputy attorney-general that Trump pursues. Threatened to resign. His false allegations of fraudulent voting..
During the meeting, Siporone wrote in a letter that Jeffrey Clark, who wanted to set up as head of the Justice Department, proposed to send it to Georgia and other fierce battle states, as before, to disagree with the election results. Mentioned. Testimony in front of the panel.
Siporone and his lawyer, Michael Purpra, who also worked at the Trump White House, did not respond to requests for comment.
Siporone, a close friend of the stubborn president who once defended Trump in his first impeachment trial, hesitated to officially appear in a record interview. Like other former White House officials, he may have argued his advice to the Republican President as privileged information he did not want to share with the Commission.
Siporone appeared in front of the panel and its investigators for about eight hours.Siporone Subpoena Because of his testimony, but Lofgren said he appeared spontaneously.
“It was a tough day, but it was worth it,” she said.
Earlier this week, Trump called it bad for the country in response to news of Cipollone’s cooperation on his social media platform, Truth Social.
“If the future U.S. President thinks it’s unlikely that this person, who essentially acts as a country’s” lawyer, “will be brought in someday, I’d like to have a frank and important conversation with a White House adviser. Why? In front of a parliamentary committee that is partisan and openly hostile. “
In a letter attached to the subpoena issued last week, the Panel said Siporone was “in his own position to testify.”
“Mr. Siporone has repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6 and the day before,” Democratic President Benny Thompson said in a statement. “The Special Committee would like to thank Mr. Siporone for his previous informal involvement in our investigation, but as other former White House advisers did in other parliamentary investigations, the Commission recorded from him. I have to ask. “
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New York Associated Press author Jill Corbin contributed to this report.
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