Donald Trump Jr., the son and former President Donald Trump will be speaking with investigators from the House select committee that is investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. This will happen in the near future. sources told ABC News on Thursday.
The former president’s eldest son is set to meet with the January 6 committee sometime “in the coming days,” the news agency said. According to reports, he is meeting with investigators to share his knowledge about the attack. He will also likely discuss text messages he sent members of Trump White House in November 2020 encouraging them to ignore the results of the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump Jr. will be the third Trump family member to speak with the committee — Trump Sr.’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner (both of whom served in official capacities within the White House during Trump’s term in office) have also spoken with the commission investigating the Capitol attack. Trump Jr.’s fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who worked on the Trump campaign and spoke in front of the crowd of Trump loyalists on January 6, also spoke to the committee earlier this weekShe agreed, even though she was subpoenaed.
It was reported earlier this month that Trump Jr. A number of text messages had been sent to officials in his father’s administration, including to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, in the wake of his father’s loss to now-President Joe Biden. Trump Jr. will likely face questions regarding those messages, which committee vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) has described as leaving “no doubt” that the White House “knew exactly what was happening” during the Capitol attack.
For example, on November 5, 2020, it was only two days after Election Day (and just a few days before Biden had been officially declared the winner). Trump Jr. urged Meadows to use “operational control”To ensure his father won the election, he worked within the executive branch federal government. “POTUS must start 2nd term now,” Trump Jr. said.
Trump Jr. also tried to use a scheme to present a slate false electors in several states where his father had lost to disrupt the outcome to the Electoral College. This was unsuccessful and was eventually abandoned. Trump Jr. stated to Meadows that Trump Sr. could still win by counting these fake electors or creating confusion in the official count.
“We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress” where state delegations within the House of Representatives, which Republicans controlled a majority of, would decide the outcome, Trump Jr..
