AP sources: Donald Trump Jr. speaks with Jan. 6 committee
AP sources: Donald Trump Jr. speaks accompanied by Jan. 6 committee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The oldest son of former President Donald Trump has met accompanied by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to set of two people familiar accompanied by the matter.
The meeting Tuesday accompanied by Donald Trump Jr. comes while the bipartisan House committee moves closer to the former president's inner ring of family members with every one other accompanied by political advisers.
The younger Trump is of probable attentiveness to the committee since of his proximity to his father on the day of the riot. Donald Trump Jr. was seen backstage at the rally on the White House Ellipse that took place in a short time earlier to supporters of the then-president marched to the Capitol with every one other accompanied by breached the building.
In some communal media videos posted at the hour dated of the Jan. 6 attack, Trump Jr. was seen accompanied by Kimberly Guilfoyle — at that hour dated his girlfriend, now his fiancee — with every one other accompanied by other members of his family while his father prepared to build a speech that investigators believed rallied supporters to take deed violently that day.
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The House committee has too released text messages from Jan. 6 inside which Trump Jr. pleaded accompanied by the White House to obtain his father to forcefully condemn the riot.
"We need an Oval address. He has to lead now. It has gone excessively a lengthy way with every one other accompanied by gotten not here of hand," Trump Jr. wrote to then-White House leader of staff Mark Meadows.
Trump Jr. is one of almost 1,000 witnesses the committee has interviewed while it works to compile a record of the worst assault on the Capitol inside additional than set of two centuries. He is the following of Trump's children known to speak to the committee; female sibling Ivanka Trump sat down accompanied by lawmakers for eight hours inside early April. Her husband, Jared Kushner, has too been interviewed by the committee.
Other allies of the former president have defied subpoenas from the committee with every one other accompanied by been referred to the Justice Department for potential prosecution on contempt of Congress charges. One of them, Stephen Bannon, was indicted last year following he refused to cooperate. That instance is pending.
The committee of septet Democrats with every one other accompanied by set of two Republicans is looking to wrap up its almost 11-month investigation with every one other accompanied by shift into the condition hearing phase. Hearings are place to start June 9 with every one other accompanied by go on for quartet weeks. Lawmakers expect to convey not here witnesses with every one other accompanied by inside attendance proof inside an attempt to educate the condition on the filled scope of the assault with every one other accompanied by Donald Trump's part inside it.
Trump Jr. is no indeed unknown human being to congressional investigations, having testified at least trio times inside House with every one other accompanied by Senate investigations of Russian interference inside the 2016 presidential election.
The set of two people who confirmed Trump Jr.'s meeting accompanied by the Jan. 6 committee were granted anonymity to talk over the private session, which was not announced by the committee.
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Associated Press author Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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