Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

The former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack that Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in days before 6 January, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The former senior Trump aide also told House investigators that the details of whether Trump actually intended to march to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse rally would be memorialized in documents provided to the US Secret Service, the sources said.

The select committee’s interview with Grisham, who was Melania Trump’s chief of staff when she resigned on 6 January, was more significant than expected, the sources said, giving the panel new details about the Trump White House and what the former US president was doing before the Capitol attack.

Grisham gave House investigators an overview of the chaotic final weeks in the Trump White House in the days leading up to the Capitol attack, recalling how the former president held off-the-books meetings in the White House residence, the sources said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/trump-secret-meetings-january-6-capitol-attack-stephanie-grisham

[L. Coyote]

1. "off-the-books meetings in the White House residence" with whom?

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Planning golfing trips, no doubt.

Link to tweet

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Marge Taylor Green was at the White House for a meeting.

Was that meeting “off the books”?

[lagomorph777]

10. I imagine it was really off the hook.

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[Zambero]

14. Off the rails??

[bucolic_frolic]

3. "off-the-books" seems to have been a specialty

Equivalent to running a side business on company time. He was employed by the government of the people that elected him.

[gab13by13]

4. Republicans used the fact that Hillary had a personal server

to help defeat her and the MSM also blew her personal server out of proportion. Here we have people using burner phones, encryption, secret servers and the MSM gives them a pass. Trump had a server connected to Putin's bank. More proof of what I'm saying, all of cable news is right wing except for a few anchors.

[PatSeg]

5. Of course he held secret meetings

He wasn't going to just wing it. Time was running out and he was going to do whatever he could to hold on to power.

[progressoid]

6. Meh. Not much there.

[mpcamb]

8. ...except that thousands died since trump did nothing about covid

putting the country weeks behind any response to the pandemic.

[lagomorph777]

11. 52 weeks.

But who's counting?

[Mr. Ected]

7. Trump knew the whole house of cards would fall on him if he left the Oval Office

Somebody grab a shovel and chop this snake in half. 350 million Americans are worth less to him than one DJT.

We know it, the MAGAts don't. Suckers born every minute.

[Cosmocat]

13. He's a coward

He never would put himself into a situation where he would be exposed to any kind of physical threat.

[KS Toronado]

9. Reminds me of all the off-the-books meetings he had with Putin

[DallasNE]

12. I Presume J6 Committee Already Has WH Visitior Logs

That can be compared with the testimony. That could give new leads as well for those off-the-books meetings.

[BlueWavePsych]

15. K&R

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. K&R