January 6 Committee Wants Testimony From Coup Plotter Rep. Andy Biggs, Others (Updated)

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Axios reports, Jan. 6 panel seeks info from three GOP House members:

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday sent letters to three House Republicans seeking their testimony: Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas).

The Committee must already have everything they need from other witnesses about insurrection floor leader Rep. Paul Gosar.

Why it matters: The letters mark an escalation in the committee members’ efforts to extract information from their Republican colleagues, doubling the total number of members sought out by the panel.

      • The first three lawmakers they sought to question were House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member “Gym” Jordan.
      • All three have refused to voluntarily appear before the panel. [What do they have to hide?]
      • Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chair of the committee, told Axios last week they are still weighing subpoenas.

Driving the news: The letter to Jackson, a close ally of former President Trump who once served as his personal physician and medical advisor, includes texts between members of the far-right Oath Keepers, one of the groups involved in the attack.

      • In the texts, dated the afternoon of Jan. 6, unidentified group members wrote that Jackson “needs [Oath Keeper] help” and “needs protection” because he has “critical data to protect.”

Go deeper: The other letters cite recent revelations about the members’ involvement in Jan. 6 — dredged up either in testimony from other witnesses or by the public comments of the members themselves.

      • The letter to Brooks points to his public claims that Trump asked him to “rescind the 2020 elections” — allegations made after Trump pulled his endorsement of Brooks’ U.S. Senate candidacy.
      • The letter to Biggs cites testimony from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ assistant that he was involved in meetings in the run-up to Jan. 6 where lawmakers and staffers discussed strategies to overturn the election.

UPDATE: The Coup Plotter co-conspirator Biggs will not cooperate with the January 6 Committee. If he did nothing wrong, and has nothing to hide, one would think he would want to testify. He is clearly concerned that Ali Alexander, who is reportedly cooperating with the committee, has already told the committee what he knows about Reps. Biggs, Gosar and Brooks. Subpoena his sorry ass.

In related news, a Judge rejects RNC effort to block Jan. 6 panel from getting email, fundraising data:

A federal judge has denied an effort by the Republican National Committee to block the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 from obtaining email and fundraising data from digital communications vendor Salesforce.

In a 53-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington, D.C., shot down the RNC’s argument that the subpoena the committee issued to Salesforce in February should be denied on First Amendment grounds.

“House Defendants are not seeking, and Salesforce is not producing, any disaggregated information about any of the RNC’s donors, volunteers, or email recipients, including any person’s personally identifiable information,” the judge wrote in his opinion.

Kelly also said he didn’t agree with the RNC’s argument that the House committee lacks the proper authorization to wield investigative power. He noted that the panel was narrowly focusing on a short period of time between the 2020 presidential election and Jan. 6, asking for information about fundraising emails sent through Salesforce’s platform that helped the RNC spread claims that Joe Biden’s victory was fraudulent.

“Through the subpoena, the select committee seeks information that will help it understand whether and how much those email campaigns attracted attention and thus were a factor in the January 6 attack,” Kelly wrote. “The select committee’s demand is narrowly tailored to its interest. As the court has already explained, the select committee seeks reasonably relevant information from a narrow window during which the RNC sent emails promoting claims that the presidential election was fraudulent or stolen.”

The RNC has said that disclosure of the email data by Salesforce would “frustrate” its “ability to pursue political goals such as winning elections and advocating for its policies” – like a seditious insurrection and overthrowing American democracy? The judge, however, said “less is at stake than the RNC represents” because some of the email information “is already publicly available or readily deducible from publicly available sources.”

Kelly ordered Salesforce not to release any of the information requested in the subpoena before Wednesday to give the RNC time to appeal the judge’s decision.

The ruling stemmed from the RNC’s lawsuit against the House select committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in early March following the Feb. 23 subpoena. The RNC called the subpoena a “fishing expedition.”

“Nancy Pelosi and the Committee have weaponized Congress’ investigatory powers by issuing this staggeringly broad subpoena which tramples on core First Amendment rights of the RNC and millions of Americans,” RNC attorney Justin Riemer said in a statement at the time.

Sounds to me like somebody has something they really want to hide.

In response to the lawsuit, House committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said in March that the subpoena focuses on fundraising emails from former President Donald Trump’s campaign and the RNC that include false claims about election fraud.

“The select committee issued a subpoena to an email fundraising vendor in order to help investigators understand the impact of false, inflammatory messages in the weeks before January 6th, the flow of funds, and whether contributions were actually directed to the purpose indicated,” Mulvey said in a statement. “This action has absolutely nothing to do with getting the private information of voters or donors.”

It’s about how Trump and the RNC used fundraising emails to the rubes in the MAGA/QAnon cult to pay for organizing their coup d’état insurrection on January 6. 2021.




3 thoughts on “January 6 Committee Wants Testimony From Coup Plotter Rep. Andy Biggs, Others (Updated)”

  1. And Biggs is saying he will not appear before the 1/6 committee.

    Hillary Clinton testified for what, 11 hours before the Benghazi committee?

    I do not like Hillary Clinton, and by that I mean I kinda’ hate HRC, and I know that this is a poor choice of words, but she’s got more balls than Biggs.

  2. The January 6 Committee knows what they are after. “Multiple RNC staffers have spoken to Jan. 6 panel, sources say”, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/27/multiple-rnc-staffers-have-spoken-to-jan-6-panel-sources-say-00028349

    Multiple current and former Republican National Committee staffers have spoken with the Jan. 6 select committee amid questions about the party’s messaging and fundraising in the weeks after the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the probe.

    The committee has shown particular interest in staff from the RNC’s digital and finance teams.

    Most of the officials who have spoken with investigators are former employees who worked during the 2020 election cycle, including the fraught period between Election Day and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, one of the people said.

    That means the committee has more insight than previously known into the Republican Party’s activity in the lead-up to January 6. The interviews underscore the select committee’s interest in how political messaging by the national GOP apparatus — which partnered with the Trump campaign on digital fundraising efforts — may have stoked falsehoods about the 2020 election.

    They also want to know just how successful one particular email campaign was at getting users to click through to donation websites. Those emails prompted people to give money based on false claims the election was stolen, the select committee has emphasized.

    Committee investigators have said they’re interested in who authorized the RNC’s specific messaging about the election outcome and whether it played a role in stoking the violent mob that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.

    [In] court filings, the RNC has indicated that only a few dozen party officials have access to its Salesforce accounts and that all of them are required to sign “strict nondisclosure” agreements. [Unenforceable.] Only a tiny fraction of those people have “administrator level permissions.” It’s unclear whether any of the officials who spoke to the select committee had access to the RNC’s Salesforce data.

    • I see an online effort to shame Toyota for donating to traitor Andy Biggs.

      This is not the correct take.

      Go look up Toyota trucks and ISIS and then ask why is Andy Biggs taking money from a company that supports ISIS?

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