Jan. 6 committee asks Newt Gingrich to supply information about his role in Trump’s efforts to stop certification of the election
“These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place,” Thompson said in a letter to Gingrich giving notice of the request for an interview."They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the results of the election.
Investigators have continued to receive a steady stream of new documents — including a tranche of records from the U.S. Secret Service and two years worth of text messages from Alex Jones that were accidentally turned over to the lawyer for plaintiffs suing the conspiracy theorist. referring to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson about what happened as Trump was leaving the Ellipse after his speech on Jan. 6, 2021. Hutchinson testified under oath that those details were conveyed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff.
Several people familiar with the committee’s work said they continue to explore the handling of documents by Meadows. According to these people, there is still information from Hutchinson’s closed-door depositions that has yet to be made public and needs further corroboration. While the committee hopes to again interview Ornato and Robert Engel, Trump’s former detail leader, there is concern that the two agents are trying to run out the clock. Testimony from Hutchinson and others placed Ornato and Engel, who have both retained private counsel, at the center of various claims regarding Trump’s actions on Jan. 6.