Comment correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Cassidy Hutchinson as a former aide to Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone. He was an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The article has been corrected. Former Trump White House adviser Pat Cipollone appeared before a federal grand jury Friday in Washington investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill, spending 2½ hours behind closed doors with jurors and prosecutors. Cipollone became the highest-ranking White House aide known to appear before the grand jury in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to sway the 2020 election results, including President Donald Trump’s actions, which culminated in the siege of Congress as lawmakers met to confirm President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Cipollone’s deputy counsel Pat Philbin was expected to appear later Friday. The two lawyers were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury about four weeks ago for testimony and documents about that day and the events leading up to it, CNN first reported. Their expected appearance Friday was reported by ABC News and follows grand jury appearances in July by former Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, Mark Short, and attorney Greg Jacobs. It was not immediately clear what Cipollone or Philbin would discuss with the grand jury and whether their testimony would exclude private presidential communications that are normally subject to executive and attorney-client privilege. Cipollone and his attorney Michael M. Purpura entered the federal courthouse in Washington shortly after 9:30 a.m., where they were greeted by lead federal prosecutor Thomas Windom and escorted to an elevator leading to the grand jury area. Cipollone left the building alone shortly after jurors broke for lunch at noon. Purpura is also representing Philbin, who entered the courthouse shortly before 12:30 p.m. The Justice Department is investigating Trump’s actions in the Jan. 6 criminal investigation Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration and has appeared in several public accounts as a key witness and critic of the then-president’s conversations with private lawyers and others in his inner circle who were reportedly looking to replace Trump allies with certified voters from some states won by Joe Biden; push the Justice Department to falsely claim the election was rigged with fraudulent votes; or recommend the seizure of voting machines by the US Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, or other federal officials. In videotaped testimony played at televised hearings this summer held by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the Capitol breach, Cipollone told investigators that he strongly resisted efforts by Trump and outside advisers to overturn the election and that like former Trump attorney general William P. Barr, he did not believe there was sufficient fraud to have affected the outcome of Biden’s victory in any state. In a late-night White House meeting on December 18, 2020, which Cipollone described as “independent,” for example, he said that election lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn showed a “general disinterest in supporting this which actually tell with facts’. Of the conspiracy-fueled idea to seize voting machines, Cipollone recalled telling Powell, “I don’t see why we have to tell you why this is a bad idea, it’s a terrible idea for the country.” Cipollone has also been described as opposed to sending a letter authored by attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark to officials in Georgia, falsely stating that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of elections in several states.” Cipollone told Trump that Clark’s proposed letter was “a murder-suicide pact” that would “harm everyone who touches it,” according to a filing by then-Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. In a call on Dec. 27, 2020, witnesses said, Trump told acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen that he wanted the department to say there was significant election fraud and said he was ready to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark, the who was willing to make this claim. “Just say the election was rigged and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump told Rosen, according to notes of the conversation reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump backed down after Rosen, Donoghue and Cipollone declined and said they and other senior government lawyers would resign en masse, participants said. Cipollone answered questions for eight hours earlier this year before a House committee on Jan. 6 after riveting testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who described her boss as one of the last walls protections that prevent Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. She testified that on the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone warned her in words she paraphrased as “”Make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this movement happen.’ “
title: “Trump White House Lawyer Pat Cipollone Appears Before A Grand Jury On Jan. 6 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-06” author: “Hugh Ropers”
Comment correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Cassidy Hutchinson as a former aide to Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone. He was an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The article has been corrected. Former Trump White House adviser Pat Cipollone appeared before a federal grand jury Friday in Washington investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill, spending 2½ hours behind closed doors with jurors and prosecutors. Cipollone became the highest-ranking White House aide known to appear before the grand jury in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to sway the 2020 election results, including President Donald Trump’s actions, which culminated in the siege of Congress as lawmakers met to confirm President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Cipollone’s deputy counsel Pat Philbin was expected to appear later Friday. The two lawyers were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury about four weeks ago for testimony and documents about that day and the events leading up to it, CNN first reported. Their expected appearance Friday was reported by ABC News and follows grand jury appearances in July by former Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, Mark Short, and attorney Greg Jacobs. It was not immediately clear what Cipollone or Philbin would discuss with the grand jury and whether their testimony would exclude private presidential communications that are normally subject to executive and attorney-client privilege. Cipollone and his attorney Michael M. Purpura entered the federal courthouse in Washington shortly after 9:30 a.m., where they were greeted by lead federal prosecutor Thomas Windom and escorted to an elevator leading to the grand jury area. Cipollone left the building alone shortly after jurors broke for lunch at noon. Purpura is also representing Philbin, who entered the courthouse shortly before 12:30 p.m. The Justice Department is investigating Trump’s actions in the Jan. 6 criminal investigation Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration and has appeared in several public accounts as a key witness and critic of the then-president’s conversations with private lawyers and others in his inner circle who were reportedly looking to replace Trump allies with certified voters from some states won by Joe Biden; push the Justice Department to falsely claim the election was rigged with fraudulent votes; or recommend the seizure of voting machines by the US Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, or other federal officials. In videotaped testimony played at televised hearings this summer held by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the Capitol breach, Cipollone told investigators that he strongly resisted efforts by Trump and outside advisers to overturn the election and that like former Trump attorney general William P. Barr, he did not believe there was sufficient fraud to have affected the outcome of Biden’s victory in any state. In a late-night White House meeting on December 18, 2020, which Cipollone described as “independent,” for example, he said that election lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn showed a “general disinterest in supporting this which actually tell with facts’. Of the conspiracy-fueled idea to seize voting machines, Cipollone recalled telling Powell, “I don’t see why we have to tell you why this is a bad idea, it’s a terrible idea for the country.” Cipollone has also been described as opposed to sending a letter authored by attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark to officials in Georgia, falsely stating that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of elections in several states.” Cipollone told Trump that Clark’s proposed letter was “a murder-suicide pact” that would “harm everyone who touches it,” according to a filing by then-Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. In a call on Dec. 27, 2020, witnesses said, Trump told acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen that he wanted the department to say there was significant election fraud and said he was ready to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark, the who was willing to make this claim. “Just say the election was rigged and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump told Rosen, according to notes of the conversation reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump backed down after Rosen, Donoghue and Cipollone declined and said they and other senior government lawyers would resign en masse, participants said. Cipollone answered questions for eight hours earlier this year before a House committee on Jan. 6 after riveting testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who described her boss as one of the last walls protections that prevent Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. She testified that on the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone warned her in words she paraphrased as “”Make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this movement happen.’ “
title: “Trump White House Lawyer Pat Cipollone Appears Before A Grand Jury On Jan. 6 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-16” author: “Lisa Ragin”
Comment correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Cassidy Hutchinson as a former aide to Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone. He was an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The article has been corrected. Former Trump White House adviser Pat Cipollone appeared before a federal grand jury Friday in Washington investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill, spending 2½ hours behind closed doors with jurors and prosecutors. Cipollone became the highest-ranking White House aide known to appear before the grand jury in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to sway the 2020 election results, including President Donald Trump’s actions, which culminated in the siege of Congress as lawmakers met to confirm President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Cipollone’s deputy counsel Pat Philbin was expected to appear later Friday. The two lawyers were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury about four weeks ago for testimony and documents about that day and the events leading up to it, CNN first reported. Their expected appearance Friday was reported by ABC News and follows grand jury appearances in July by former Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, Mark Short, and attorney Greg Jacobs. It was not immediately clear what Cipollone or Philbin would discuss with the grand jury and whether their testimony would exclude private presidential communications that are normally subject to executive and attorney-client privilege. Cipollone and his attorney Michael M. Purpura entered the federal courthouse in Washington shortly after 9:30 a.m., where they were greeted by lead federal prosecutor Thomas Windom and escorted to an elevator leading to the grand jury area. Cipollone left the building alone shortly after jurors broke for lunch at noon. Purpura is also representing Philbin, who entered the courthouse shortly before 12:30 p.m. The Justice Department is investigating Trump’s actions in the Jan. 6 criminal investigation Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration and has appeared in several public accounts as a key witness and critic of the then-president’s conversations with private lawyers and others in his inner circle who were reportedly looking to replace Trump allies with certified voters from some states won by Joe Biden; push the Justice Department to falsely claim the election was rigged with fraudulent votes; or recommend the seizure of voting machines by the US Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, or other federal officials. In videotaped testimony played at televised hearings this summer held by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the Capitol breach, Cipollone told investigators that he strongly resisted efforts by Trump and outside advisers to overturn the election and that like former Trump attorney general William P. Barr, he did not believe there was sufficient fraud to have affected the outcome of Biden’s victory in any state. In a late-night White House meeting on December 18, 2020, which Cipollone described as “independent,” for example, he said that election lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn showed a “general disinterest in supporting this which actually tell with facts’. Of the conspiracy-fueled idea to seize voting machines, Cipollone recalled telling Powell, “I don’t see why we have to tell you why this is a bad idea, it’s a terrible idea for the country.” Cipollone has also been described as opposed to sending a letter authored by attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark to officials in Georgia, falsely stating that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of elections in several states.” Cipollone told Trump that Clark’s proposed letter was “a murder-suicide pact” that would “harm everyone who touches it,” according to a filing by then-Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. In a call on Dec. 27, 2020, witnesses said, Trump told acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen that he wanted the department to say there was significant election fraud and said he was ready to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark, the who was willing to make this claim. “Just say the election was rigged and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump told Rosen, according to notes of the conversation reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump backed down after Rosen, Donoghue and Cipollone declined and said they and other senior government lawyers would resign en masse, participants said. Cipollone answered questions for eight hours earlier this year before a House committee on Jan. 6 after riveting testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who described her boss as one of the last walls protections that prevent Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. She testified that on the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone warned her in words she paraphrased as “”Make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this movement happen.’ “
title: “Trump White House Lawyer Pat Cipollone Appears Before A Grand Jury On Jan. 6 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-30” author: “Jonathan Rice”
Comment correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Cassidy Hutchinson as a former aide to Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone. He was an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The article has been corrected. Former Trump White House adviser Pat Cipollone appeared before a federal grand jury Friday in Washington investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill, spending 2½ hours behind closed doors with jurors and prosecutors. Cipollone became the highest-ranking White House aide known to appear before the grand jury in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into efforts to sway the 2020 election results, including President Donald Trump’s actions, which culminated in the siege of Congress as lawmakers met to confirm President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Cipollone’s deputy counsel Pat Philbin was expected to appear later Friday. The two lawyers were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury about four weeks ago for testimony and documents about that day and the events leading up to it, CNN first reported. Their expected appearance Friday was reported by ABC News and follows grand jury appearances in July by former Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, Mark Short, and attorney Greg Jacobs. It was not immediately clear what Cipollone or Philbin would discuss with the grand jury and whether their testimony would exclude private presidential communications that are normally subject to executive and attorney-client privilege. Cipollone and his attorney Michael M. Purpura entered the federal courthouse in Washington shortly after 9:30 a.m., where they were greeted by lead federal prosecutor Thomas Windom and escorted to an elevator leading to the grand jury area. Cipollone left the building alone shortly after jurors broke for lunch at noon. Purpura is also representing Philbin, who entered the courthouse shortly before 12:30 p.m. The Justice Department is investigating Trump’s actions in the Jan. 6 criminal investigation Cipollone was the top White House lawyer at the end of the Trump administration and has appeared in several public accounts as a key witness and critic of the then-president’s conversations with private lawyers and others in his inner circle who were reportedly looking to replace Trump allies with certified voters from some states won by Joe Biden; push the Justice Department to falsely claim the election was rigged with fraudulent votes; or recommend the seizure of voting machines by the US Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, or other federal officials. In videotaped testimony played at televised hearings this summer held by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the Capitol breach, Cipollone told investigators that he strongly resisted efforts by Trump and outside advisers to overturn the election and that like former Trump attorney general William P. Barr, he did not believe there was sufficient fraud to have affected the outcome of Biden’s victory in any state. In a late-night White House meeting on December 18, 2020, which Cipollone described as “independent,” for example, he said that election lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn showed a “general disinterest in supporting this which actually tell with facts’. Of the conspiracy-fueled idea to seize voting machines, Cipollone recalled telling Powell, “I don’t see why we have to tell you why this is a bad idea, it’s a terrible idea for the country.” Cipollone has also been described as opposed to sending a letter authored by attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark to officials in Georgia, falsely stating that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of elections in several states.” Cipollone told Trump that Clark’s proposed letter was “a murder-suicide pact” that would “harm everyone who touches it,” according to a filing by then-Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. In a call on Dec. 27, 2020, witnesses said, Trump told acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen that he wanted the department to say there was significant election fraud and said he was ready to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark, the who was willing to make this claim. “Just say the election was rigged and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump told Rosen, according to notes of the conversation reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump backed down after Rosen, Donoghue and Cipollone declined and said they and other senior government lawyers would resign en masse, participants said. Cipollone answered questions for eight hours earlier this year before a House committee on Jan. 6 after riveting testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, who described her boss as one of the last walls protections that prevent Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. She testified that on the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone warned her in words she paraphrased as “”Make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this movement happen.’ “
