WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 select committee released an executive summary on Monday, highlighting a series of revelations and accusations against key figures who have testified as it prepares to wrap up its far-reaching investigation in the coming days.
A theme in the document is that the committee believes numerous figures close to former President Donald Trump were being less than candid during their testimony, either through evasions or claims that they couldn't remember the answers to questions. In some cases, the committee said the purported memory lapses were not credible and appeared to be an attempt to conceal information.
The committee says Trump’s daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump “acknowledged” to them she agreed with Attorney General William Barr that there wasn’t evidence of election-altering fraud, that Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence over his powers on the morning of Jan. 6, and that the president watched the Capitol violence on television in real time.
Yet the panel suggests that she knew more than she was letting on, contrary to others like then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
“Ivanka Trump was not as forthcoming as Cipollone and others about President Trump’s conduct,” according to the executive summary, accusing her of exhibiting “a lack of full recollection of certain issues.”
She wasn’t the only White House official the panel called out. It said portions of former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s testimony “seemed evasive,...
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