Those involved with the insurrection have repeatedly pointed to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) as the chief conduit for the House GOP Conference to the White House in Trump’s quest to overturn his defeat.
This particular allegation of fraud centered around what one former Justice Department official described Thursday as an “absurd” claim: that an Italian defense contractor had conspired with senior CIA officials to use military satellites to flip votes from Trump to Joe Biden. As, the theory was pushed by a Virginia horse-country socialite who once gave an extended television interview from a 22-bedroom mansion that she repeatedly described as her own, even though it was not.
The committee also displayed White House logs showing that Perry returned to the White House the next day — and “this time, he brought a Justice Department official named Jeffrey Clark.”It was the first known meeting between Clark and Trump — and it probably set off the events that led to a dramatic showdown between the president and senior Justice Department leaders, who had refused Trump’s demands that they declare that fraud had tainted Biden’s victory.
“The general tone was, we may get prosecuted because we were defensive of the president’s position on these things,” Eric Herschmann, a former White House attorney, said in recorded testimony played at the Thursday hearing.“Saying ‘I heard’ means you don’t know,” Greene. “Spreading gossip and lies is exactly what the January 6th Witch Hunt Committee is all about.”
Kinzinger said on Thursday that Republicans’ flirtation with Italygate was “one of the best examples of the lengths to which President Trump would go to stay in power, scouring the internet to support his conspiracy theories.”Despite being debunked by Justice officials, the theory made its way to Kash Patel, a Defense Department official, who called Donoghue to gauge his view.
Perry heads the House Freedom Caucus, the hard-right group that counts several of its members among those who sought pardons, according to Thursday’s testimony.Rep. Liz Cheney , at the committee’s first hearing this month, stated that Perry was among those who had sought a pardon, but Thursday was the first glimpse of testimony from former White House officials corroborating that claim.
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