Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone will deliver testimony Friday to a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 riot, according to a new report.
Cipollone and former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin will sit before the federal panel investigating whether criminal activity transpired during the events surrounding the Capitol riot, ABC reported.
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In tandem with the Jan. 6 committee inquiry of the Capitol riot, the Justice Department has also been investigating the riot and the coinciding efforts to challenge the 2020 election. A grand jury impaneled in the case has been doling out subpoenas to key witnesses. Cipollone and Philbin were subpoenaed earlier this summer.
As a top lawyer for former President Donald Trump’s administration, Cipollone was privy to a vast array of the inner workings of the Trump White House, including efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Cipollone served as a star witness for the Jan. 6 committee, which played clips of his deposition during hearings in July.
Federal investigators have reportedly zeroed in on the alternative elector scheme. Additionally, Trump is said to be a subject of interest in lines of questioning while his legal team gears up in preparation for potential charges.
In July, Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s ex-chief of staff, reportedly delivered testimony to the federal grand jury alongside Greg Jacob, who was his counsel.
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Cipollone and Philbin also gave interviews to the FBI pertaining to its inquiry about Trump’s management of classified documents after he moved away from the White House, reports said.
In a lengthy rebuttal to legal challenges against its inquiry, the DOJ released a photo showing a slew of classified documents scattered across the floor of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate Wednesday. Trump has condemned the Aug. 8 FBI raid on his Palm Beach, Florida, resort and denied wrongdoing.
