Jan. 6 committee seeks testimony from Newt Gingrich

Former Home Speaker Newt Gingrich has emerged as the newest topic of curiosity for the Jan. 6 committee.

Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) revealed on Thursday that the panel despatched Gingrich a letter requesting a transcribed interview to offer data for the investigation into the Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.

"Info obtained by the Choose Committee exhibits that Mr. Gingrich was in touch with senior advisors to President Trump concerning tv commercials that relied upon and amplified recognized false claims about fraud within the 2020 election and that Mr. Gingrich was concerned in numerous different features of the scheme to overturn the 2020 election and block the switch of energy, together with after the violence of January sixth," reads a press launch from the committee.

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Gingrich was in touch with former President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White Home adviser Jared Kushner and former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, with whom he had supplied enter into tv commercials that "repeated and relied upon false claims" concerning the 2020 election, based on the letter. The committee additionally mentioned Gingrich continued to attempt to overturn the election outcomes even after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, claiming he had emailed Mark Meadows, Trump's White Home chief of employees, and requested, “Are there letters from state legislators about decertifying electors[?]”

The committee seeks "a voluntary transcribed interview" throughout the week of Sept. 19 and has provided its employees to speak to Gingrich's lawyer if he's represented by one.

"A full and correct accounting of what occurred on January sixth is vital to the Choose Committee’s legislative suggestions," the letter from Thompson concludes. "And the American folks deserve to know the related particulars of what led to the assault."

In January, Gingrich advised that if the GOP wins again the Home within the 2022 midterm elections, the Jan. 6 committee "is all going to return crashing down.” He additionally instructed Fox News that "the wolves are going to seek out out that they’re now sheep" and advised the committee members might face jail time "for the sorts of legal guidelines they’re breaking."