We know how reluctant the Trump administration was to document (or release) who visited the White House. Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham tells CNN’s Jim Acosta there may be notes from “off the books” meetings from the residence that Trump and company will try to conceal from the House investigation into Jan. 6.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance finds the prospect tantalizing.
“If you’re investigating Jan 6 & a few of the 150 witnesses you interview have recollections or even private notes of secretive meetings in the residence, particularly if there are, as Grisham suggests, some that didn’t make it onto visitor logs, you’re hitting pay dirt,” Vance tweets.
Mark Meadows was in charge of planning those meetings in the Trump administration’s last days, and the former chief of staff is stalling on answering questions about them. His attorney, one George J. Terwilliger III, all but says so in the Washington Post.
Terwilliger is very disappointed that President Biden has chosen not to support Donald Trump’s executive privilege claim he’s using to stall the House investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection. To resolve the dispute over Meadows’s stalling, Terwilliger proposes stalling the investigation by agreeing to written questions Meadows still might not answer by claiming privilege. Barring that, “the only path to resolution may run through the courts.”
More stalling.