调查1月6日国会大厦袭击事件的众议院特别委员会预计将会见小唐纳德·特朗普。在接下来的几天里,知情人士告诉ABC新闻。
消息人士告诉ABC新闻,小特朗普的出现是自愿的,是在委员会邀请他与他们的调查人员交谈后出现的。该小组没有传唤他。
小特朗普将成为特朗普家族中与该委员会会面的最新成员。最近几周,该小组采访了伊万卡·特朗普和贾里德·库什纳,他们都曾担任前总统唐纳德·特朗普的高级白宫顾问。
小特朗普的律师没有立即回应美国广播公司新闻的置评请求。
小特朗普的未婚夫金伯利·吉尔福伊尔,与委员会会晤在本周早些时候的一次采访中,消息人士称,这是第二次争论,部分集中在特朗普于2021年1月6日上午举行的“拯救美国”集会的筹款活动上。
消息人士称,小特朗普的短信是前参谋长马克·梅多斯交给委员会的短信之一。
正如美国广播公司新闻先前报道的那样,小组副主席、怀俄明州共和党众议员利兹·切尼大量引用了短信内容暴乱时被送到了梅多斯来自福克斯新闻频道东道主、共和党议员和小唐纳德·川普
当时,切尼说,这些信息留下了“毫无疑问”的白宫“确切地知道”在国会大厦发生了什么暴乱。
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根据切尼的说法,小特朗普在一条短信中告诉梅多斯,“他必须尽快谴责[骚乱]。”他说,特朗普关于国会警察的推特“还不够。”
“我正在努力,”梅多斯回答道。“我同意。”
“我们需要一个椭圆形办公室的地址,”小特朗普在后续消息中说。“他现在已经领先了。它已经走得太远,失去了控制。”
据ABC新闻此前报道,该委员会预计将在6月举行公开听证会,并最终发布一份关于他们调查结果的报告。
Donald Trump Jr. expected to meet with Jan. 6 committee: Sources
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is expected to meet withDonald Trump Jr.in the coming days, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Trump Jr.'s appearance is voluntary and comes after the committee invited him to speak with their investigators, sources told ABC News. The panel has not subpoenaed him.
Trump Jr. would become the latest member of the Trump family to meet with the committee. In recent weeks, the panel interviewed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both of whom served as senior White House advisers to former President Donald Trump.
An attorney for Trump Jr. did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.'s fiance,met with the committeefor a second time earlier this week in an interview that sources said was contentions at times and focused in part on the fundraising efforts around Trump's "Save America" rally on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump Jr.'s text messages are among those that former chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the committee, sources said.
As ABC News has previously reported, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair of the panel, quoted extensively from text messagessent to Meadows during the riotfrom Fox News hosts, GOP lawmakers and Donald Trump Jr.
At the time, Cheney said the messages left "no doubt" the White House "knew exactly what was happening" at the Capitol during theriot.
"He's got to condemn [the riot] ASAP," Trump Jr. told Meadows in a text message, according to Cheney, saying that Trump's tweet about Capitol Police "is not enough."
"I'm pushing it hard," Meadows replied. "I agree."
"We need an Oval Office address," Trump Jr. said in a follow-up message. "He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand."
The committee is expected to hold public hearings in June and eventually publish a report on their findings, ABC News has previously reported.