调查1月6日暴动的众议院小组周四致函前众议院议长纽特·金里奇，寻求与他所说的在国会大厦遇袭前后与前总统唐纳德·特朗普团队的对话和通信有关的信息和记录。

在其信，该委员会表示，它已经获得了有影响力的共和党人金里奇给特朗普顾问贾里德·库什纳和杰森·米勒的电子邮件，为2020年12月选举欺诈的电视广告提供了谈话要点和方向。

该小组特别表示，这些通信是在特朗普的选民欺诈指控“被证明是虚假的”后发出的。

“目的是通过美国人民从未见过的新的可证实的信息来激起国家的愤怒。] .。。根据该小组的说法，如果我们以一种他们认为有说服力的方式告知美国人民，并激起他们的愤怒，他们就会给立法者和州长施加压力，”金里奇在一封电子邮件中写道。

In this July 25, 2022, file photo, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the US House of Representatives, speaks during the America First Policy Institute's America First Agenda summit in Washington, D.C.

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该委员会在信中说，金里奇在袭击前后多次向时任白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)发送电子邮件，询问有关向选举团发送假选举人的协调问题，以及州立法者关于选举人的信件——包括在暴徒被清除出国会大厦之后。

“1月6日晚，你继续推动推翻选举结果的努力。你在晚上10点42分给梅多斯发了邮件，当时国会大厦已经被暴徒清理干净，国会议员也已经回来完成了选举结果的认证工作，你问，“有州议员关于取消选举人资格的来信吗?]’”委员会写道。

“因此，你似乎参与了特朗普总统阻止选举结果认证的努力，即使在国会大厦遇袭后也是如此。”

委员会要求在9月19日那周对金里奇进行自愿采访。

“对1月6日发生的事情进行全面准确的描述对于特别委员会的立法建议至关重要。美国人民有权了解导致袭击的相关细节，”该小组写道。

该委员会此前曾向金里奇的助手寻求信息，但后者没有立即回复寻求置评的消息。

该委员会表示，2020年12月，金里奇给特朗普的高级助手发了电子邮件，敦促竞选团队在全国电视广告中宣传阴谋论，即佐治亚州选举工作人员将装满选票的手提箱走私到州立农场竞技场。

当时的司法部高级官员，包括前司法部长比尔·巴尔(Bill Barr)，告诉该委员会并公开表示，他们调查了这一指控和其他选举欺诈指控，并发现这些指控没有法律依据。

“我们看了录像带，采访了证人，”前代理副总检察长理查德·多诺霍(Richard Donoghue)告诉委员会，他与前总统特朗普就这些指控进行了交谈。“我说，‘没有，先生，没有手提箱。可以反复看视频。没有手提箱，”"

这封写给特朗普著名盟友金里奇的信提醒了众议院委员会的工作，而全国的注意力都集中在联邦调查局对特朗普佛罗里达州住所的前所未有的突袭上，这是对他离开白宫后处理机密文件的调查的一部分。

预计该委员会将在本月某个时候恢复公开听证会，此前该委员会已经公开采访了数名前特朗普政府官员和暴徒。

Jan. 6 committee requests information and records from Newt Gingrich

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection sent a letter to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Thursday seeking information and records related to what it said were his conversations and communications with former President Donald Trump's team before and after the attack on the Capitol.

In itsletter,the committee said it had obtained emails from Gingrich, an influential Republican, to Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Miller offering talking points and direction for television ads about election fraud in December of 2020.

The panel specifically said those communications were sent after Trump's voter fraud allegations "were shown to be false."

"The goal is to arouse the country's anger through new verifiable information the American people have never seen before[.] . . . If we inform the American people in a way they find convincing and it arouses their anger[,] they will then bring pressure on legislators and governors," Gingrich wrote in an email, according to the panel.

In its letter, the committee said Gingrich repeatedly emailed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows before and after the attack with questions about coordination of a push to send fake electors to the Electoral College and letters from state legislators regarding the electors -- including after the mob was cleared from the Capitol.

"On the evening of January 6th, you continued to push efforts to overturn the election results. You emailed Mr. Meadows at 10:42 p.m., after the Capitol had been cleared of rioters and members of Congress had returned to finish certifying the election results, and asked, '[a]re there letters from state legislators about decertifying electors[?]'" the committee wrote.

"Accordingly, you appear to have been involved with President Trump's efforts to stop the certification of the election results, even after the attack on the Capitol."

The committee requested a voluntary interview with Gingrich the week of Sept. 19.

"A full and accurate accounting of what happened on January 6th is critical to the Select Committee's legislative recommendations. And the American people deserve to understand the relevant details of what led to the attack," the panel wrote.

The committee has previously sought information from aides to Gingrich who did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

In December 2020, the committee said, Gingrich emailed senior Trump aides urging the campaign to run national television ads promoting the conspiracy theory that Georgia election workers smuggled suitcases full of ballots into State Farm Arena.

Senior Justice Department officials at the time, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, told the committee and said publicly that they investigated this and other claims of election fraud, and found no merit to them.

"We looked at the tape, we interviewed the witnesses," former acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue told the committee about his conversation with former President Trump about the claims. "I said, ‘No sir, there is no suitcase. You can watch the video over and over. There is no suitcase.'"

The letter to Gingrich, a prominent Trump ally, is a reminder of the House committee's work while much of the national attention is on the unprecedented FBI raid on Trump's Florida residence as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.

The panel is expected to resume public hearings at some point this month after already publicly interviewing several former Trump administration officials and rioters.