Meadows was warned of violence ahead of Jan. 6, new court filings show
Source: Washington Post
In advance of Jan. 6, 2021, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was warned about the threat of violence that day as supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mass on the Capitol, according to new testimony released late on Friday by the House committee investigating the insurrection.
One of Meadows’s top aides, Cassidy Hutchinson, told congressional investigators that she recalled Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official who also held the role of a political adviser at the White House, “coming in and saying that we had intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th. And Mr. Meadows said: All right. Let’s talk about it.”
Hutchinson added that, “I’m not sure if he — what he did with that information internally.”
The new details came in a filing arguing that a federal court should reject Meadows’s claims of executive privilege and compel him to appear before the House Jan. 6 committee, which is continuing to build a case that Trump knowingly misled his followers about the election, and pressured Pence to break the law in the weeks and hours before the assault.
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