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Former Jan. 6 committee chair confirms probe records sent to prosecutors investigating Trump
The Washington Times ^ | Updated: 4:59 p.m. on Monday, December 18, 2023 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 12/18/2023 2:56:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Select Committee, has confirmed to Republican lawmakers that the panel sent records to prosecutors who have filed charges against former President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had not preserved such material.

Mr. Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, made the acknowledgment in a Dec. 13 letter to House Administration Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk, Georgia Republican, in response to Mr. Loudermilk’s request a week earlier.

“As stated in its Final Report, the bipartisan Select Committee transmitted its evidence of potential crimes to prosecutors conducting concurrent, independent investigations of then-President Trump’s multi-part conspiracy to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 Presidential election and the deadly January 6th insurrection,” Mr. Thompson told Mr. Loudermilk.

Republicans launched an inquiry in early December into whether the Select Committee sent documents and materials to Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis to help her build a criminal case against Mr. Trump. Ms. Willis, a Democrat, is prosecuting Mr. Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants on charges related to efforts to overturn President Biden’s win in Georgia in 2020.

Mr. Loudermilk and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio previously asked Ms. Willis and Mr. Thompson to turn over documents related to any investigative coordination between the Georgia prosecutor’s office and the committee.

The Georgia Republican told Mr. Thompson in another letter on Dec. 5 that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Select Committee shared records with Ms. Willis and provided Fulton County prosecutors “key evidence about what former President Trump and his top advisers knew with respect to Georgia’s 2020 election results.”

He wrote, “However, there are no records of any additional communication between the Select Committee and Ms. Willis and her office...

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1 posted on 12/18/2023 2:56:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A lying, POS Mississippi RAT.


2 posted on 12/18/2023 2:59:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Get the illegal alien refugees out of our government.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hopefully they sent classified documents.


3 posted on 12/18/2023 3:00:11 PM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It would be a threat to our democracy to let Trump or his lawyers see the materials.


4 posted on 12/18/2023 3:00:58 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
There are so many injustices with this whole mess.

Proof that humans and especially the Democrat Party and its members are evil, evil, evil. They are examples of the worst of humanity starting with hypocrisy.

5 posted on 12/18/2023 3:05:39 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
2-DAF842-C-48-C1-4-D5-A-A14-B-6-DEC4-EEAFF15



3 guesses what happens


6 posted on 12/18/2023 3:06:45 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s contempt of congress right there pal


7 posted on 12/18/2023 3:12:25 PM PST by Skywise
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t think this is legal, but hey it”s Democrats so who’ll care.


8 posted on 12/18/2023 3:14:02 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mmmm
Sounds fishy


9 posted on 12/18/2023 3:14:39 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Never, ever believe, or trust, a politician regardless of affiliation....ever!!
They’re ALL nothing but a bunch of lying, slimy, greasy turds. The whole lot of em.
The only thing they care about is lining their own pockets with OUR money.


10 posted on 12/18/2023 3:16:08 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson Lied thru his teeth.
File an ethics complaint against him.
Expell him from Congress.


11 posted on 12/18/2023 3:22:00 PM PST by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a shocker!


12 posted on 12/18/2023 3:22:10 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: AnthonySoprano

"I always wanted to be a fireman."

13 posted on 12/18/2023 3:44:26 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
A lying, POS Mississippi RAT.

conspiracy to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 Presidential election and the deadly January 6th insurrection

Two lies in one sentence.

14 posted on 12/18/2023 3:52:20 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: devane617

Does anyone obey the law?


15 posted on 12/18/2023 4:01:50 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: devane617

Does anyone obey the law?


16 posted on 12/18/2023 4:01:50 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Georgia Republican told Mr. Thompson in another letter on Dec. 5 that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Select Committee shared records with Ms. Willis and provided Fulton County prosecutors “key evidence about what former President Trump and his top advisers knew with respect to Georgia’s 2020 election results.”

He wrote, “However, there are no records of any additional communication between the Select Committee and Ms. Willis and her office. Therefore, we have no records showing what the Select Committee actually provided her office.”

Mr. Loudermilk noted that this concerned him because Mr. Thompson wrote in a previous letter that he did not preserve any video recordings of depositions or transcribed interviews. The Washington Times has reached out to Mr. Thompson’s office.

“By failing to preserve these videos, you deny the American public the right to review the footage and make their own conclusions about witnesses’ truthfulness. Clearly Ms. Willis agrees that video recordings of witness interviews and depositions are important records,” he said.

“There are no records of any additional communication between the Select Committee and Ms. Willis and her office,” Mr. Loudermilk wrote on Dec. 5. “Therefore, we have no records showing what the Select Committee actually provided her office.”

House GOP investigators recently found a Dec. 17, 2021, letter from Ms. Willis in which she requested “recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel” from Mr. Thompson.

Mr. Thompson initially denied to The Washington Times that the Select Committee ever responded to Ms. Willis’ request, despite reports to the contrary in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“We did not share any records,” he said. “That is incorrect.”

17 posted on 12/18/2023 4:02:59 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz; FlingWingFlyer; AnthonySoprano
Is Fast-Talkin'-Fanny's case falling apart? Were her discovery disclosures truthful? Bennie Thompson either has been lying, or his bosses kept the information hidden from him, or he simply is incompetent.

Fulton County DA says Trump trial could go into 2025, leak of video testimony ‘disappointing’

18 posted on 12/18/2023 5:06:16 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

See #18


19 posted on 12/18/2023 5:08:18 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From what i heard on the radidio today, this is legal.


20 posted on 12/18/2023 5:24:24 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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