Rep. Thompson says in his opening statement that 'there can be no doubt that there was a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn an election overseen and directed by Donald Trump,' and that the former president must be held accountable.
Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump White House aide, went off on the Jan. 6 committee in
he uploaded to the social media platform Telegram on Tuesday, after going into a deposition with the committeeWednesday by the Republican Accountability Project. Ziegler called the panel's investigation “a Bolshevistic anti-white campaign.” "If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed,” Ziegler said."So they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right. ... I'm the least racist person that many of you have ever met, by the way, I've no bigotry. I just try to see the world for where it is. I have no sort of army to hit back at them, right, because I'm the young guy in the room and they're not even going after any other young people.
Ziegler indicated that his closed-door testimony before the committee, which lasted under an hour,"was just a lot of saying that I invoke my right to silence under executive privilege in the Fifth Amendment." He also used derogatory and sexist words to describe former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified publicly before the committee, and former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin.Adam EdelmanMark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff during the insurrection, refused to answer numerous questions from NBC News about Jan. 6 after being spotted leaving the Capitol Hill Club on Thursday morning.
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