Former President Trump’s White House adviser, Pat Cipollone, described the Dec. 18 meeting at the White House as “inappropriate” during a clip of a closed-door interview that the Jan. 6 special committee shared during a public hearing Tuesday.
News Movement: Cipollone testified that some Trump allies, including campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, have shown “a general disregard for backing up what you’re actually saying with facts.”
- The meeting, which lasted roughly six hours, involved two groups of Trump advisers “trading insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president and even challenges to a physical fight,” the committee said on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Details: Cipollone recalled saying that “the idea that the federal government” could confiscate voting machines in elections “is a terrible idea,” the Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday during its seventh public hearing.
- “I don’t see why we even have to tell you why this is a bad idea, this is a terrible idea for the country,” Cipollone recalled telling Powell.
The big picture: Senior DOJ officials testified during the committee’s fifth hearing on Jan. 6 that former President Trump asked the Justice Department to confiscate voting machines from state governments as part of his campaign to overturn the 2020 elections .
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Editor’s note: This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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