Former White House Advisor to President Trump Pat Cipollone Described by a December 18 An “uncontrolled” meeting at the White House during a clip of a closed-door interview shared by the select committee on January 6 during public hearings on Tuesday.
Running the message: Cipollone testified that some Trump associates, including election lawyer Sidney Powell and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, showed a “general disdain to back up what you say with the truth.”
- The meeting, which lasted about six hours and involved two groups of Trump advisers, “traded insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president and challenges to a physical fight,” the Jan. 6 committee said Tuesday.
details: Cipollone recalled that the idea that the “central government” could seize election voting machines was “a terrible idea.”
- “I don’t understand why we have to tell you that this is a bad idea, this is a terrible idea for the country,” Cipollone recalled telling Powell.
Big picture: Senior DOJ officials testified on Jan. 6 during the committee’s fifth hearing that former President Trump Justice Department asked Part of the campaign to subvert the 2020 elections is to seize voting machines from state governments.
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