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A newly launched transcript of Kayleigh McEnany’s interview with the January 6 committee revealed how the Trump White House press secretary discovered, whereas consuming lunch in her workplace, that the scenario on the US Capitol had change into violent.
“I initially went back to my office to eat lunch, but I eventually turned up the volume on Fox News,” McEnany informed the committee.
The House committee investigating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol on Friday launched its newest batch of transcripts from interviews carried out through the probe. The new transcripts embrace interviews with the previous press secretary and former President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka.
According to the newest tranche of paperwork, McEnany returned to the White House from Trump’s rally on the Ellipse, and finally went to her workplace to eat lunch – a turkey sandwich.
Soon, a CBS News producer “stormed” into her workplace and requested for her “thoughts about the Capitol.” McEnany mentioned she was “totally blindsided by what (the reporter) was referring to.”
She then alerted White House chief of employees Mark Meadows in regards to the reporter’s inquiry and in regards to the studies of minor accidents on the Capitol, McEnany mentioned.
At some level through the riot, McEnany mentioned she obtained a textual content from deputy press secretary Judd Deere, who relayed that he was “getting asked if we have any reaction to people storming Hill office buildings.”
When interviewed by the House panel, Rep. Liz Cheney, the GOP vice chair of the committee, pressed McEnany on her obvious inaction upon listening to studies of violence, implying an absence of urgency.
“[Deere] sends you a text message saying that people are storming, this says, Hill office buildings,” Cheney mentioned. “And you were just eating a turkey sandwich and just didn’t – didn’t register?”
McEnany then rebuffed Cheney’s depiction, in line with transcripts.
“I definitely reject the characterization that I was just eating a turkey sandwich and would ignore a text about Capitol Hill office buildings being stormed. I likely wouldn’t have seen it at the time,” McEnany replied, saying the textual content was doubtless despatched to her private cellphone, which might have been on her desk.
“I in no way, shape, or form would eat a turkey sandwich if I thought Capitol Hill was being sieged,” she added.
McEnany met just about with the committee in January after being initially subpoenaed final 12 months.
The public launch of transcripts comes along with the committee’s remaining report, a complete overview of the bipartisan panel’s findings on how Trump and his allies sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, launched late Thursday night.