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rump White House counsel Cipollone testifies before Jan. 6 committee
Cipollone appeared on Capitol Hill Friday morning for a closed-door interview with House Jan. 6 committee investigators after negotiations over what he could be questioned about.
His testimony will be videotaped and it's expected that clips of Cipollone's deposition will be presented during the committee's upcoming public hearings, according to sources familiar with the planning.
Cipollone and the committee, according to sources, have agreed he can be asked about what he knows about the actions taken by former top Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark to use the powers of the Justice Department to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, what Cipollone did during the day of Jan. 6, and interactions he was present for or had with former rump lawyer John Eastman as well as interactions he was present for or had with members of Congress following the 2020 election.
It is believed that his testimony will be used on Tuesday when the next hearing will be held.
Cipollone, appearing under subpoena, has been one of the panel's most sought-after witnesses following last week's testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Mark Meadows, Trump's fourth and final White House chief of staff.Hutchinson told the panel that Cipollone was fearful of the consequences of Trump's push to march with his supporters on Jan. 6 from the Ellipse to the Capitol, where Congress was working to certify the 2020 Electoral College results.
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“I don’t think any of these people were providing the President with good advice,” Cipollone told the committee.After asking where the evidence was for claims of voter fraud, Cipollone said that he and Meadows were verbally attacked for questioning where the evidence for rump’s falsely claimed victory came from.
Cipollone told the committee the group responded with “general disregard for wanting to back up claims with facts.”In addition to floating claims of voter fraud and plots to overturn the election, Cipollone described his opposition to rump’s suggestion of naming Powell as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud in the 2020 election.
"I was vehemently opposed — I didn't think she should be appointed to anything," Cipollone told the committee during his closed-door interview, according to a video clip from that meeting played Tuesday.
He thought it was a “terrible idea” for the President to follow a plan to seize election machines: A proposal for the federal government to seize election machines was "a terrible idea," Cipollone told the committee.
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