Former President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to testify before the hyper-partisan January 6th Select Committee, presenting only one condition, that the hearing would be broadcasted live.
The New York Times reported President Trump’s alleged remarks last week citing a “person familiar with his discussion” as it’s source, neither President Trump nor any of his aides have confirmed this claim.
Fox News had reported with a similar source that President Trump “loves the idea of testifying” before the House Select Committee. If he would testify, he will “talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was, and how Nancy Pelosi did not call up the National Guard that Trump strongly recommended for her to do three days earlier on January 3, 2021,” Fox News reported citing an anonymous source.
The Select Committee voted “unanimously” on Thursday to subpoena the former President with committee chairman, Democrat Mississippi Congressman Rep. Bennie Thompson arguing that President Trump was “at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6.”
BREAKING: The Select Committee unanimously votes to subpoena Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, to provide evidence as part of the committee’s investigation.
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) October 13, 2022
BREAKING: Chair Bennie Thompson: "We have left no doubt—none—that Donald Trump led an effort to upend American democracy that directly resulted in the violence of Jan. 6."
"He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6. So we want to hear from him." pic.twitter.com/odEjwUTxHX
— ABC News (@ABC) October 13, 2022
As of publishing this article, President Trump has not made any comments regarding his intentions to testify before the committee. He has called the Thursday subpoena a “hoax.”
“The committee is a hoax, a sham, a partisan witch hunt which is a continuation of the witch hunt that has gone on since the great day for our country that I came down the golden escalator with our future first lady,” the former President told Fox News. “They have no case, they have no ratings, so they have to try to do this to get publicity.”
In the same interview, the former President also told Fox News that the select committee’s investigation has been “a partisan witch hunt, together with two Republicans that have been thrown out of the party — one not wanting to run because he couldn’t win; and another losing by a record number of more than 40 points,” referring to Wyoming Republican Congresswoman, Liz Cheney who lost the Republican Primary earlier this year in her district.
He also said that the committee “never covered the important subject of election fraud, or why Pelosi and the mayor of D.C. did not call up the National Guard — which I strongly recommended.”
“They didn’t cover the reason for January 6 — the largest crowd — it wasn’t set up by me,” Trump said. “The committee didn’t cover election fraud, which was massive, and they didn’t cover why Pelosi didn’t call the National Guard.”
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H/T: The New York Times | Fox News