Retired Army colonel Phil Waldron, who helped allies of Donald Trump promote false claims of election fraud, is suing to block the Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his phone records from AT&T.
Reps. Jamie Raskin speaks during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoPhil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who helped allies of Donald Trump promote false claims of election fraud, is suing to block the Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his phone records from AT&T., but AT&T transferred the matter to federal court on Friday.
In the filings, Waldron also indicates that he has signed a nondisclosure agreement “to keep confidential all information regarding the investigation being conducted by the Attorneys for their clients concerning the Election.” Waldron’s lawsuit suggests the select committee is facing an additional hurdle as it seeks to piece together the shadowy network of advisers that Trump relied on to promote his election fraud theories. Waldron was among a group of advisers who testified at state legislative hearings claiming he’d seen evidence of large-scale technical irregularities in voting machines.
Waldon repeats a handful of legal arguments against the select committee that are common to dozens of other lawsuits filed by Trump allies against the panel. They argue that the committee’s subpoenas serve no valid legislative purpose and that the panel is improperly constituted because it lacks any appointees of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who withdrew several Republican picks in protest last year.
Waldron also authored a PowerPoint that was delivered to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. The PowerPoint described strategies for overturning the election. Waldron was also aligned with Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, who has been one of the top purveyors of false claims about election fraud.
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