Jan. 6 Committee Adviser: No ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Trump Planned US Capitol Breach
By Jack Phillips June 5, 2022 Updated: June 5, 2022
A former top adviser to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach admitted Sunday there was no “smoking gun” that suggested President Donald Trump planned the breach.
Denver Riggleman, a former Republican House representative, had recently been a senior adviser to the panel. He told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that there was no direct evidence that suggested the breach and protests outside the Capitol were premeditated.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the former lawmaker whether there is a “smoking gun” that “proves that Donald Trump or somebody around him knew that what happened January 6 was not a spontaneous outcry by his supporters, but was a planned attempt to get them to stop counting the electoral votes?”
“That probably [was] going to be very difficult to even find based on the limited authorities of Congress as far as getting data and things like that,” Riggleman ultimately conceded to CNN. However, he claimed later in the interview that the panel will reveal alleged nefarious actions carried out by Trump, although he didn’t make any specific claims.
There are “multiple groups involved,” he alleged. “And I think that’s what’s exciting about the hearings, is, they’re going to be able to put the multiple groups together. Remember, there’s different investigative teams that were looking at different parts of this the whole time.”
Riggleman on Sunday also appeared to declare his support for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), one of the leaders on the House Jan. 6 panel and who has become more and more unpopular among members of her own party amid her outspoken opposition to Trump. Riggleman also told CNN Sunday he is no longer a member of the Republican Party.
Good gosh…..if only this would FINALLY call off the DC/DS/globalist swamp, from dear RPOTUS.
I’m even more sick of hearing about this fake, “UN-select” committee witch hunt, than I am about the horrid $hots and Ukraine bunk.
It’s almost like this advisor was trying to subtly give a hint to ASSt Dem, Cheney.
This kangaroo court of an illegal committee is going to hold its hearing at 8p:... prime time. I read, but hope it is not true, that they are going to use some of the previously taped depositions. This will allow the Dems to splice and dice whatever the witness said while excluding anything that they don’t want heard by the public ... like ... there were.several hundred thousand people at the speeches on the ellipse, few of who went anywhere near the Capitol and ,,,who opened the 2,000 pound doors that can only be opened electronically from inside the Capitol?