Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s last press secretary, has shared text messages from her final weeks in the White House with the January 6 commission after she was subpoenaed in November.
, the select committee said that it wanted to speak with McEnany because of her “multiple public statements from the White House and elsewhere about purported fraud” in the 2020 presidential election, “which individuals who attacked the U.S. Capitol echoed on January 6.” The commission also noted that McEnany was “with former President Trump when he traveled to the Ellipse and spoke at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, and ‘popped in and out’ to join Mr. Trump as he watched the attack on the U.S.
“Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook,” McEnany responded, adding that she would “help reinforce” that sentiment. It’s also possible that McEnany’s text messages have provided the select committee with evidence of the plan to use former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election results during Congress’s certification process on January 6. In its request to Ivanka Trump, the committee noted that it had evidence that she had “direct knowledge” of Trump’s “attempt to persuade [Pence] to take action to stop the counting of electoral votes.
McEnany’s consistent cooperation with the January 6 commission is unexpected given her allegiance to Trump even after the Capitol attack took place. McEnany spent her final weeks in the White House doing what she typically did as press secretary for Trump:
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