A Key House Committee has Postponed Multiple scheduled Witness Interviews about Trump’s Final days in Office, handing them off to the House Select Panel investigating the Jan. 6th Capitol Attack.
“As the Oversight Committee continues its crucial oversight work, we look forward to the Select Committee fully exposing the former president’s unconstitutional attacks on our democracy and attempts to stay in power after the American people voted him out of office," House Oversight Committee Chair. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY, 12th District) said in a Statement, Thursday.
The movement of those Interviews with former Deparment of Justice (DOJ) Aides marks an abrupt Change in House Democrats’ Investigations of the End of Trump’s Presidency.
The shift underscores the growing Importance of the Select Committee's work, as it readies its next steps with a Political Spotlight on, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS, 2nd District), and the Panel's Two Anti-Trump Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY, At-Large) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL, 16th Ditrict).
“The shift in the investigation does not appear to affect the upper chamber", a Senate Judiciary Committee Spokeswoman, said Thursday, that the Panel is beginning to Interview Witnesses, this week, in its own Inquiry.
The Chair of that Panel, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), said that his Committee planned to Interview Two Trump-era DOJ Officials soon.
Sources said it has Canceled Plans to Interview former Acting Attorney General, Jeff Rosen, and his former Second-in-Command, Richard Donoghue.
Those Interviews had been Scheduled for this week and next. Instead, the Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6th Riot will Question the Two men.
A Third Top Trump-era DOJ Official, Rosen’s former Senior Counsel Patrick Hovakimian, answered Questions, in a Closed-Door Interview, with the Oversight Panel earlier this week, making the current Shift more striking.
The Oversight Committee also obtained a Draft Email, Hovakimian wrote announcing that he and Donoghue had Resigned because Trump Fired Rosen.
Trump didn’t Fire Rosen, though, and Hovakimian never Sent Out the Email.
The abrupt Change came a few hours after Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (R-CA, 12th District), released a Statement with effusive praise of Maloney.
“The Chairwoman’s persistent pursuit of the truth will contribute greatly to the work of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,” the Statement said.
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