Jan. 6 Committee Calls On Newt Gingrich To Testify

The New York Times reports:

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Thursday asked former Speaker Newt Gingrich to sit for a voluntary interview about his involvement in former President Donald J. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

In a letter to Mr. Gingrich, the Georgia Republican who held the speakership in the late 1990s, the committee said its investigators had obtained evidence that he was in contact with senior advisers to Mr. Trump about television advertisements that amplified false claims of fraud in the 2020 election and other aspects of the scheme to block the transfer of power, both before and after a mob attacked the Capitol.

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Breaking News: The Jan. 6 committee has called on Newt Gingrich to testify, saying he had a role in Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. https://t.co/34HLYcg2M2

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