As the House select committee considers potential criminal charges against Donald Trump over his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, the former president is reportedly having a meltdown at Mar-A-Lago, according to a reporter with knowledge of the investigation.
As the Daily Boulder reported last week, the Jan 6 Panel is looking into a call Trump made to the Willard hotel, where his allies Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and others were huddled in a “war room.” The Committee is weighing criminal referral against Trump in connection with the call as he tried to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
The Guardian journalist Hugo Lowell, who has broken some major news about the congressional probe, appeared on MSNBC’S “Morning Joe” on Tuesday where he describe ed the “pivotal moment the night of Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 when Trump picked up the phone call from the White House.”
Citing several sources, Lowell said that Trump “instructed his operatives the find ways to stop the certification from taking place at all at the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. If you speak to Trump’s allies, this is not a big deal — he was just trying to find ways to delay certification and find another day, but I always thought this was a really disingenuous characterization because, either way, through action or inaction, he managed to get the certification stopped, and the Capitol was attacked and now it’s going to loom large in the committee’s investigation.”
In his effort to avoid prosecution, Trump has claimed executive privilege over hundreds of documents, and Lowell predicted the U.S. Supreme Court would decide in the spring whether Congress may see that evidence, and he agreed the committee would eventually take some action against Trump personally.
“It’s increasingly becoming more likely because they are looking at criminal referrals for the former president,” Lowell explained before adding that House investigators are now “focusing on the culpability of Trump himself and that the former president is having “a bit of a meltdown, from what we understand, down in Mar-A-Lago.”
Watch the segment below, via MSNBC.
