House investigators are unlikely to call former President Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, relying instead on interviews with aides, family and others who were close to him at the time, Rep. Bennie Thompson says.
in June and as members make final decisions about who to call for testimony. The committee has already talked to almost 1,000 witnesses behind closed doors or on video, including aides to both Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence who have testified about Trump’s pressure on Pence to object to Biden’s certification.
Thompson said testimony from Pence would be “significant,” but that the committee is still speaking with the former vice president’s lawyers. He said it’s unclear whether Pence will eventually sit for an interview. “Former President Trump made a significant effort to get him to join his side, so I’m convinced that his testimony, beyond what’s already in the public record, would enhance the public’s knowledge of what went on,” Thompson said of Pence.
Much of the evidence the committee has already compiled comes from interviews with former White House aides and staff, including thousands of texts from Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and two of the former president’s children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Both were with their father the day of the attack.
The committee has also interviewed former White House aide Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, former communications director Alyssa Farah and multiple Pence aides, including his chief of staff, Marc Short, and his national security adviser, Keith Kellogg. Former White House press secretaries Kayleigh McEnany and Stephanie Grisham have also appeared, as has former senior policy adviser
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