Newt Gingrich new target of Jan. 6 committee
Matthew Chapman
September 01, 2022
On Thursday, investigators on the House January 6 Committee sent a letter to former house speaker and Donald Trump ally Newt Gingrich, requesting testimony on his role in spreading distrust about the results of the election.
"The Committee has obtained information indicating that you have knowledge about former President Donald J. Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and we write to seek your voluntary cooperation," said the letter. "Some of the information that we have obtained includes email messages that you exchanged with senior advisors to President Trump and others, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, in which you provided detailed input into television advertisements and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election."
"Among the numerous emails you exchanged regarding purported election fraud, you wrote on December 8, 2020, urging Donald Trump's campaign to air advertisements promoting the false narrative that election workers had smuggled suitcases containing fake ballots at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia," the letter continued. "This email shows that you provided line edits to the scripts used to produce television advertisements and suggested that the advertisements include a "call-to-action" of pressuring state officials" — specifically requesting that the ads address the "suitcase scandal."
According to the letter, the committee also has knowledge that Gingrich was "involved" in the scheme to introduce fake slates of electors for Trump in states that Biden won.
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