Chairman of Jan. 6 House Panel: Trump Records Will Be Released Publicly
The House Jan. 6 select committee plans to release records from former President Donald Trump's White House, the panel's chairman said Thursday.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said potentially hundreds of pages of records will be made public,
Bloomberg reported.
"As soon as we can go through them, and figure out what we can and can't — we will do it," Thompson said, according to Bloomberg.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday
rejected Trump's request to block the release of White House records sought by the partisan panel — comprised of Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans — investigating events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Thompson's comment about the records being made public reaffirms the belief that Democrats hope to keep the Jan. 6 events on voters' minds as long as possible before November's midterm elections.
One committee aide recently told Axios the panel was mulling prime-time,
televised hearings on the incident in an attempt to "reach as many people as we can.”
Thompson gave no timetable for the records' release, and added the panel was "anxiously awaiting" receipt of about 800 pages of material being turned over by the National Archives.
The White House records include visitor and call logs, emails, draft speeches, and handwritten notes.
Committee members have focused on Trump and his allies during their investigation, and have said Trump's records are key to their probe.
"That was one of the initial requests that we made as a committee, because that’s a storehouse for a lot of the information we need," Thompson said.
Trump allies facing subpoenas from the committee have maintained that the lack of GOP-appointed members is evidence the committee is not operating properly.
The House Jan. 6 select committee plans to release records from former President Donald Trump's White House, the panel's chairman said Thursday.
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surferlaments
so trumps records will be released to the public? well after the mid-term 2022 nov elections.....
so will the records of pelosi's, schumer's, swalwell's, adam schiff's, nadler's and many many more crooked democrats records be released to the public. the house and the senate will be controlled by the republicans and turn around is fair play. many investigations will expose the democrats. jail hopefully will follow......
Moosieman
Ok Benny When Republicans take back power they should create a 2020 riots commission. Release every text, phone records, financial records of every elected Democrat.
MaxWorth
This is totally political maneuvering by the Democrats in a desperate attempt to salvage the massive collateral damage suffered due to the disastrous policies and failures of the Biden Administration.
Rest assured any records deemed advantageous for the Democrats will be documents taking out of context, piecemealed together towards achieving maximum discrediting effect, and released close to the Mid term election date.
Democrat supporters...
Your Party thinks you are all totally Stupid and so Blindsided by TDS, that you will continue to believe everything they have been feeding you since 2016.
imahogg
Translation: the parts of Trump's records that the kangaroo court THINK will put Trump in a bad light will be released publicly...get ready for a ton of scurrilous misinformation taken completely out of context in an attempt to smear Trump before the 2022 elections...
Bill Halcott
Here we are on the verge of war with Russia, and these lying thieving democrat clowns are worried about bogus investigations into the Trump Administration? You can't print what I think.
pudhead
All of the congress and senate need their 1/6 texts records released, especially Pelosi and her cartel. Correct, fair is fair.