Jared Kushner, son-in-law of former President Trump and senior adviser to his White House, is expected to appear before the commission investigating the January 6 bombing of the United States Capitolseveral sources familiar with the matter say on CBS News.
Kushner was not physically in the White House on January 6, although he did have a significant influence within the administration. He was returning to Washington from a trip to Saudi Arabia, where he was working on negotiations between the Arab leaders of the Gulf. He did not return to the White House that day.
The committee asked Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, submit to testify in a January letter citing his presence with his father at the White House that day, as well as at the Oval Office during a telephone conversation that Mr. Trump held with Vice President Mike Pence that morning. In late February, a spokesman said he was in discussions with the committee to volunteer for an interview.
A committee spokesman declined to comment and a Kushner spokesman could not be reached for comment.
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While Kushner was not among the president’s vocal supporters who claimed widespread fraud in the 2020 election, he was possibly the recipient of those advocating for action. In a text message in the then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, obtained by CBS News, Conservative activist Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote: “I just sent Gmail a email I sent to Jared this I am “. It is not clear who he is referring to.
News of Kushner’s testimony came after the committee’s victory: A California federal judge on Monday ordered Conservative attorney John Eastman to deliver a stretch of emails they had searched, and found that former President Donald Trump “most likely not” tried to illegally prevent official congressional proceedings on the day of the attack.
The committee will vote Monday night if it recommends to the House that two former Trump aides be arrested in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee’s citations. He the committee issued a report Sunday afternoon recommending the nine-person committee advances in keeping the couple, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, in contempt. The vote is likely to be approved, as the committee is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, who support the former president’s investigation.
The committee has issued more than 90 summonses, including those to Trump allies, former White House officials, campaign aides and people involved in planning the rally in front of the White House before the Capitol building was besieged. Trump’s two main allies, Steve Bannon i Pratshave been considered in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas, and the The Justice Department has charged Bannon. Both said they were following instructions from Trump, who has claimed the executive’s privilege.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set up the House Select Committee last year to investigate January 6 attack, when thousands of Trump supporters marched on the Capitol as Congress counted the election votes, a largely ceremonial final step that affirmed Biden’s victory. Lawmakers were sent to flee amid the riot, which killed five people and arrests of hundreds more. Trump, who encouraged his supporters to “walk” to the Capitol during the Ellipse rally before the counting of election votes, was denounced by the House a week later to incite riot but it was later acquitted by the Senate.
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