The FBI has confiscated the telephone of Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, an ally of former President Donald Trump, Perry mentioned in an announcement to CBS Information.
"This morning, whereas touring with my household, three FBI brokers visited me and seized my mobile phone," Perry mentioned.
Perry alleged they "made no try and contact my lawyer, who would have made preparations for them to have my telephone if that was their want."
It isn't clear why the FBI confiscated his telephone.
This comes simply in the future after Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence was searched by the FBI as a part of a probe into paperwork, together with categorized supplies, that will not have been preserved as required by the Presidential Data Act.
At a public listening to in June, the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol confirmed testimony from former White Home aide Cassidy Hutchinson who mentioned that in a Dec. 2020 telephone name, Perry expressed assist for encouraging folks to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The Home committee alleged at its June 9 public listening to that Perry sought a pardon earlier than Trump left workplace for his involvement in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Perry has denied it. He tweeted on June 10 that "the notion that I ever sought a Presidential pardon for myself or different Members of Congress is an absolute, shameless, and soulless lie."
Home Jan. 6 committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney mentioned in the course of the listening to June 9 that Perry was concerned within the effort to put in Trump ally Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer, as legal professional basic within the last weeks of the administration.
Trump wished Clark to be the nation's prime regulation enforcement official in order that he can be empowered to ship a letter to Georgia and different states which might say, based on Cheney, that the Justice Division had "recognized vital considerations which will have impacted the result of the election" — despite the fact that it had discovered no such proof.
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.