READ: House committee January 6 releases more transcripts, including Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle

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The House January 6 committee released Thursday a new batch of 19 transcripts, including key interviews from former President Donald Trump’s family members and staff.

The newly-released transcripts include testimony from Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Stephanie Grisham, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Doug Mastriano.

Read their transcripts below.

Trump Jr. is a high-profile surrogate for the Trump campaign and one of the most prominent supporters of his father who pushed a false narrative about the election results between the 2020 election and January 6, 2021. Along with Trump Jr. the former president backstage outside the White House before his speech at the Stop the Steal rally at the Ellipse.

CNN reported in May that he met with the select committee.

Read the transcript of his May 3 interview here.

Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.’s fiancee, met with the committee in April. and former member of the Trump presidential campaign.

He was a key witness to the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection. Guilfoyle was with Trump that morning and was backstage with the former president and other family members during the Stop the Steal rally at the Ellipse. He was also one of the guest speakers at the rally.

Read the transcript of his April 18 interview here.

The committee released a transcript of Grisham’s interview from May.

Grisham, a former White House press secretary and chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, told reporters in January, when he met with the committee, that he cooperated fully.

His meeting with the committee came after he spoke by phone with committee member Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland where Raskin encouraged him to meet with the panel. A source told CNN that Grisham and Raskin had an in-depth phone call about his knowledge of events behind the scenes at the White House on January 6.

Read the transcript from his May 18 interview here.

Transcripts released last week revealed that Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, turned to Griffin, a former White House aide, for advice when she felt he was hiding. of information from the committee kept creeping up on him, according to the Hutchinsons’ testimony.

Hutchinson further testified that he asked Griffin, now a CNN political analyst, to act as a backchannel to the committee so he could call him back and find out what questions to ask without telling his attorney.

Griffin resigned from his role as White House communications director in December 2020, a month after the election.

Read the transcript from his April 15 interview here.

Trump ally Mastriano, who pushed the election lies of former presidents, met with the committee in August. He was the GOP gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania at the time.

He previously provided some documents to the panel in response to a subpoena he received in March, his attorney told CNN. He was also interviewed by the FBI last year about planning around the Jan. 6 rally and trespassing at the US Capitol, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, after photos of him on the Capitol grounds surfaced that day. that.

Read the transcript from his August 9 interview here.

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