On Friday, news outlets reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle—former Fox News person, Trump campaign operative, and fiancee to Donald Trump Jr.—was interviewed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol grounds. The interview was private and virtual, but reports have leaked that things quickly went south when Guilfoyle realized that there would be committee members at the committee interview. Did you get that?
According to CBS News’ Chief Election & Campaign Correspondent Robert Costa, “When Guilfoyle appeared on Friday’s virtual meeting, she and her lawyers grew immediately concerned when they saw who else was on the call, including lawmakers on the committee such as Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, both Democrats.” This led Guilfoyle to get agitated and, with her lawyers, “abruptly end her conversation with the committee over concerns about its ground rules.”
Guilfoyle, as part of the Trump crime family “inner circle,” has long been expected to be subpoenaed at some point during the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation. Guilfoyle was also a speaker at the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the insurrection at the Capitol, where she said, among other things: "We will not allow the liberals and the Democrats to steal our dream or steal our elections."
Guilfoyle also reportedly raised quite a bit of money for the Jan. 6 event as one of Trump’s re-election campaign advisers.
In recent weeks, Guilfoyle’s, along with Eric Trump’s phone records had been subpoenaed by the committee, leading many to suspect the committee was searching through the text exchanges taking place during that day, hoping to find out more information as to why Donald Trump seemed so profoundly impotent in defending our democracy.
Costa’s reporting, based on what he said were “four people” who witnessed the event, seems to have been confirmed by the statement Guilfoyle’s representation released to the press:
“Ms. Guilfoyle, under threat of subpoena, agreed to meet exclusively with counsel for the Select Committee in a good faith effort to provide true and relevant evidence. However, upon Ms. Guilfoyle’s attendance, the Committee revealed its untrustworthiness, as members notorious for leaking information appeared. Then, while counsel briefly halted the meeting to address the matter, our concerns about the presence of the Committee’s members were validated, as the Committee within less than two minutes leaked news of the break to the media, as Chairman Thompson did only a month earlier when revealing to the press that our client’s phone records had been confidentially subpoenaed. When we apprised counsel for the Select Committee of this new leak, they too were shocked and appalled. It is clear that Adam Schiff and multiple other members hijacked the interview in a brazen attempt to publicize an obviously baseless investigation. While Ms. Guilfoyle had hoped the Committee wanted to act in good faith to find the truth, it is now abundantly clear to us that their only real interest was to sandbag our client and use today’s interview as a political weapon against President Trump and those who support him.”
Now, this sort of sounds like someone got cold feet when she realized that she couldn’t dish on people without certain other, strangely breathy and sweaty folks, knowing what she said. But, maybe she’s right. Maybe the January 6, Select Committee told Guilfoyle that in lieu of being subpoenaed, she could come in to interview with the lawyers that Schiff and others had on the committee, and then … they would not tell the committee what Guilfoyle said in regards to the things being investigated by the committee. Maybe it makes sense to someone for a committee investigating something to have a way to depose people in such a way as to never have any contact, or more importantly, a way of learning any information about what they’re investigating.
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