A key adviser to former President Trump has provided the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection with a trove of documents about Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik reportedly wrote a letter to the Committee indicating that he wants to cooperate with “any investigators who are truly willing to move ahead swiftly and get to the truth.”
The letter came in response to a subpoena by the January 6 Panel, The Hill reports.
“Mr. Kerik is a strong believer in our constitutional system of government and would have never participated in any effort to knowingly promote false claims,” Timothy Parlatore, Kerik’s attorney, wrote to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), according to the report.
“He believed then, as he does now, that there were significant election improprieties and inconsistencies as well as evidence of possible fraud in the election that must be properly investigated,” Parlatore continued. “It is for this reason, that Mr. Kerik very much wants to cooperate with your committee and any investigators who are truly willing to move ahead swiftly and get to the truth.”
Among the documents released via the letter is a “strategic communications plan” meant to pressure Republican members of Congress, including swing-state senators, to vote against certifying the 2020 election results.
The cooperation of Kerik, who was hired to investigate election fraud claims by Trump’s legal team, is sought by the Jan. 6 select committee because of his involvement in getting space at the Willard Hotel for the Trump team’s “war room” prior to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Kerik also said through the letter from his lawyer that he would be willing to be interviewed by panel under certain conditions.
