Onetime Trump nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn appeared on Thursday earlier than the Home choose committee investigating the January 6 Capitol assault, his legal professional confirmed.
The deposition comes after the committee subpoenaed Flynn final yr, requesting details about a December 2020 assembly he reportedly attended with then-President Trump within the Oval Workplace. Matters of debate allegedly included seizing voting machines, declaring a nationwide emergency and invoking sure nationwide emergency powers.
"Common Michael Flynn appeared earlier than the January sixth Committee right now in compliance with their subpoena and, on recommendation of counsel, exercised his fifth modification proper to say no to reply the Committee's questions," legal professional David Warrington mentioned in a press release.
Warrington claimed that through the deposition, committee employees "insinuated that Common Flynn's determination to say no to reply their questions constituted an request for forgiveness."
"The committee's determination to depose Common Flynn whereas these points are earlier than a court docket was little greater than political theater designed to arrange a false narrative primarily based on the committee's mistaken view of the fifth Modification," Warrington mentioned, including that "many of the questions lacked any relation to the legislative objective" for which the committee was based.
One individual near the committee advised CBS Information there's intense curiosity amongst some committee members in probing Flynn about his feedback in late 2020 about martial regulation and voting machines.
Throughout a Newsmax look in December 2020, Flynn had mentioned Trump might deploy the navy to "rerun" the presidential election in swing states.
Flynn is the previous nationwide safety adviser who twice pleaded responsible to mendacity to the FBI, however was pardoned by Trump within the last weeks of his presidency.
Final week, the committee mentioned in a court docket submitting that it had proof that Trump and his allies had engaged in a "legal conspiracy" by making an attempt to dam Congress from certifying the election. It was the primary time the committee has laid out a possible legal case towards Trump.
— Bob Costa and Ellis Kim and contributed to this report.