Roger Stone claims Steve Bannon blackmailed Trump to get pardon
A group of pro-Trump “fake electors” in Georgia who tried to interfere to secure his 2020 election victory in the state are now the targets of a criminal investigation.
In court documents filed in Atlanta on Tuesday prosecutors said: “Each of the sixteen persons who signed the unofficial Elector Certificate ultimately submitted to the National Archives received a similar target letter alerting, that person both that his testimony was required by the special purpose grand jury and that he was a target of the investigation."
Meanwhile, Jan 6 select committee chair Bennie Thompson has tested positive for Covid-19.
The Democratic congressman says he is suffering only mild symptoms, and the panel’s primetime hearing on Thursday is expected to go ahead as planned.
The hearing will reportedly feature two former White House aides who will testify as to what the ex-president was doing while a mob of his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol.
The hearing is set to focus on Mr Trump’s inaction during the attack.
And, at the start of the trial of Trump ally Steve Bannon for criminal contempt of Congress, prosecutors said he deliberately “decided he was above the law”.
