On January 6, 2021, during the fifth hearing of the committee investigating the invasion of the US Capitol, then Donald Trump administration’s Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, announced that the White House had ordered an investigation into a conspiracy theory involving satellites from Italy. election fraud.
According to Miller, at the request of Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, he had to call the US military attaché at the US Embassy in Rome to launch an investigation into his theory that Italian satellites had turned the vote from Trump to Joe Biden.
“This was one of the best examples of what Trump could do to stay in power. He would use the internet to support conspiracy theories,” Miller added.
Information about the investigation was confirmed in another statement this Thursday (23), by former Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. According to the representative, the baseless theory was supported by a former US intelligence officer.
Another lobbyist for the investigation of the Italian satellites asked Trump, “Why can’t we work with the Italian government?” It was Republican Representative Scott Perry who texted.
According to Rosen, she received an email from Perry forwarded by Meadows with a link to a 20-minute YouTube video full of unfounded theories about the November 2020 election. The cabinet even asked him to meet with Bradley Johnson, who is a child. Who appeared in the video telling the stories?
“I told him that the whole Italy thing was debunked and had to be stopped and that I would definitely not meet with that man in person,” said Rosen, who said he had received a complaint and information from him. Johnson “was working with Rudy Giuliani [advogado de Trump]And Mr. Giuliani was really offended that you thought they had to go to the FBI office for this – that’s an insult.”
Former Assistant Attorney General Richard Donoghue also confirmed the story, saying that Kash Patel, one of the Pentagon’s top commanders at the time, was pressured to investigate whether he was investigating the “Italy issue”.
In one of the documents Donoghue submitted, it is mentioned that Trump told him “you don’t follow me online like me”.
The representative also noted that after telling Meadows the story was “nonsense”, the White House chief continued to pressure the Department of Defense through the Justice Department to investigate the story.
At this point, Miller said he received a call from Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger “to see what’s going on in Rome because of all these crazy, crazy reports and possibly our guy there from base.” . [adido militar] He knows more than anyone else.”
Public hearings by the legislative committee investigating the Capitol invasion to challenge the 2020 election result were due to continue Friday, but Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said new meetings would not be held because of the “flood” of new evidence presented at this week’s hearings. It will be done by the end of July.
source: Noticias
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