The House Jan. 6 select committee witness whom President Trump allegedly tried to call after a recent hearing was a member of the White House support staff, multiple outlets reported Wednesday night.
Citing two sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported that Trump made the call after the committee heard public testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, late last month.
The witness was in a position to corroborate part of Hutchinson’s testimony, the outlet reported.
NBC confirmed that the recipient of the alleged call was a support staffer and had also been talking to the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Hutchinson testified that Trump knew many in the crowd at his rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6 were armed.
She also testified that, following the rally, Trump lunged at the steering wheel of his Secret Service vehicle and at an agent in an attempt to join his supporters at the Capitol.
Secret Service agents are reportedly prepared to refute that part of Hutchinson’s testimony.
At the end of its Tuesday hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the panel’s vice chair, said Trump had placed a call to an undisclosed witness who has not appeared publicly at the hearings.
“That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump’s call and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. Their lawyer alerted us, and this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice,” Cheney said.
“We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” she added.
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Jan. 6 witness that Trump allegedly dialed was White House support staffer: reports https://t.co/QixtBWH6ZY pic.twitter.com/g9QMEufx4K
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