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The House of Representatives Election Commission, which is investigating the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, has collected evidence that then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told others that then-President Donald Trump had shown support for hanging the vice president. Mike Pence, after the rebels invading the Capitol that day, began chanting “Hang on Mike Pence!”
Meadows’ account of Trump’s response to his vice president was provided to the committee by at least one witness, according to people familiar with the investigation – but those people did not describe the tone in which the comment was made. They spoke on condition of anonymity to be more candid on a sensitive topic.
The development was first reported by the New York Times.
The commission declined to comment. In a statement, Trump said the investigation was “just a continuation of the Democrats’ slanderous campaign.” A Meadows spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
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Meadows went in and out of the dining room near the Oval Office on the day of the attack and in the presence of Trump as the riot unfolded, according to testimony given to the commission by former White House officials who were in the West Wing that day.
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Earlier, The Washington Post reported that Trump told those around him about Pence while watching on television how the rebels besieged the Capitol. At 2:24 p.m., minutes after the vice president and his family were threatened by the pro-Trump mob and forced to flee the Senate, Trump tweeted that Pence lacked the “courage”:
“Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what needed to be done to protect our country and our constitution by giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, rather than the fraudulent or inaccurate ones previously asked to prove.” “It simply came to our notice then. “The United States demands the truth!”
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Meadows associate, was asked by the account committee and confirmed, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Hutchinson participated in numerous interviews with the commission and provided detailed information about the beginning and events of January 6, 2021, according to these people and testimonies published in court documents by the commission.
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People familiar with the commission’s work said they viewed Hutchinson, a longtime Meadows associate, as a key witness.
Hutchinson has attended a number of White House meetings and had wide access to Meadows, one man said. Her lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
The committee is particularly interested in Meadows’ role in Trump’s efforts to cancel the 2020 election, the man said, and has compiled a detailed report on his behavior during that period. Some witnesses say Meadows used his fireplace to burn documents, said a man close to the committee.
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