WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared Monday earlier than investigators of the Home choose committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol.
Conway spoke to the committee on the document, two sources accustomed to her look stated. The panel didn’t publicly subject her a subpoena, and aides refused to touch upon whether or not she was issued one privately. The committee declined to touch upon her look Monday.
Conway was seen coming into a convention room within the O’Neill Home Workplace Constructing with lawyer Emmet Flood, who was a lawyer in former President Donald Trump’s White Home.
When she left the assembly room for a break, Conway informed reporters “I’m right here voluntarily,” and added that Trump had known as her final week.
Conway labored as a senior counselor to Trump from the start of his time period via Aug. 2020. She determined to depart the administration as a result of she stated she wanted to concentrate on her household. She additionally served as a marketing campaign supervisor for Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.
Though Conway wasn’t working for Trump on Jan. 6, The Washington Submit, in a report citing 15 Trump advisers, Congress members, GOP officers and different Trump confidants, stated she known as an aide who was with the president that day and stated she was becoming a member of others in urging Trump to inform his supporters to face down. Conway additionally informed the aide that she had obtained a name from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s workplace asking for assist in getting Trump to name up the Nationwide Guard, the Submit reported.
The committee is anticipated to launch a ultimate report about its investigation into the 2021 riot earlier than the tip of the yr, earlier than the brand new Congress convenes in January. The panel will not be anticipated to exist within the new GOP-controlled Home subsequent yr.
Earlier than Thanksgiving, the panel interviewed Bobby Engel, who was the lead Secret Service agent for Trump when the riot befell and whose statements might have bearing on the bombshell testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a high aide to former White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows. Hutchinson testified over the summer season that she was informed Trump tried to seize the steering wheel in an armored SUV and lunged towards his safety element when he realized he wouldn’t be taken to the Capitol after his rally on Jan. 6.
At the start of November, committee investigators have been scheduled to fulfill with a Secret Service agent who was within the lead automobile of Trump’s motorcade on the day of the riot.
