Did you hear that? It was the sound of Donald Trump completely losing his sh*t after Kayleigh McEnany just became the latest member from his inner circle to cooperate with the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The ex-White House Press Secretary just handed over her text messages to the committee, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Not only that, but she also testified before the panel two weeks ago, and all her White House files are being sent to Congress at this very moment.
Related: It sure looks like the January 6 committee is getting ready to subpoena Don Jr.
McEnany, who was at White House and in close contact with Donald Trump before and during the insurrection, was first subpoenaed for records and testimony back in November.
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ABC News reports that she’s been fully cooperating with investigators, and that the text messages she turned over have already been useful to them:
A source familiar with her interactions with the committee has told ABC News that text messages from McEnany’s phone were quoted in a recent letter the committee sent to Ivanka Trump. The texts came directly from documents turned over by McEnany, said the source.
“1 – no more stolen election talk,” Fox News host Sean Hannity texted McEnany, according to the records. “2- Yes, impeachment and the 25th amendment are real and many people will quit.”
“Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook. I will help reinforce….,” McEnany replied, per the documents.
ABC News also reports that McEnany testified before investigators for several hours on January 13, where she was grilled about the “repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud” that she spewed from the White House podium, as well as in her interactions with Trump on the day of the attack.
Related: The Jan. 6 committee wants to speak with Ivanka and things are about to get ugly
In addition to the texts and testimony, investigators will soon receive McEnany’s White House files from the National Archives that Trump unsuccessfully tried to block them from obtaining.
Last month, Mary Trump told Lawrence O’Donnell that she believed her uncle was probably freaking out over how quickly the January 6 committee appears to be closing in on him.
“I don’t want to overstate this, because we’ve seen Donald get away with so much, but even he, at this point, must be feeling the walls close in,” Mary, who, so far, has never been wrong in her predictions about her uncle, said. “If he has any sense, he would feel that way.”
Related: Mary Trump is pretty sure Donald Trump is scared sh*tless about the January 6 committee
She added that she feels the committee is doing “an extraordinary job of putting the pieces together.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind, if they are discussing making such a referral [to prosecutors at the Department of Justice], they have everything nailed down.”
.@MaryLTrump tells @Lawrence that Donald Trump "must be feeling the walls closing in."
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— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) January 7, 2022
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Ronbo
Is anyone else here angry that it has been 13 months and the people who organized and arranged and attempted to overthow our nation have yet to be arrested? Their plans were in motion LONG before Jan. 6th.
Put the shoe on the other foot and the Republican party would have finished hanging everyone involved well before now.
It’s nice being in the party of kindness; but, don’t we have an obligation to pursuing justice? I’m not on board with the Democratic stragety of “not looking back” (remember the Iraq war – based entirely on political lies and deception).
GlobeTrotter
I’ve been saying this for some time now. Were the shoe on the other foot, the GOP would never allow themselves to be bogged down by unnecessary procedures and committees. Note the lightening speed with which Mitch McConnell rammed through 3 Supreme Court justices through Congress.
See, the GOP already knows they’re going to hell, and they’ve already come to terms with that fact. They’re long past the point of pretending to have any decency or morality. They’re going to hell and they fully own up to that fact – might as well live up to your evil reputation. The Dems, on the other hand, are still stuck in Boy Scout mode. They spend sleepless nights caring about how they come across and whether they’re still the moral party. So they dare not pack the Supreme Court, for example, without first spending an entire year awaiting the “recommendations” of a special commission set up to investigate the feasibility of packing said Supreme Court. They dare not take Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema out to the back shed and whip them within an inch of their lives (for fear of the public optics).
If Mitch McConnell wanted to pack the Supreme Court, he would have simply done so in a flash, cost it what it may. No commission required, no listening to the other side whining. If any GOP senator had DARED to step out of line or defy Trump’s agenda, he would have ruined their careers as well as that of their wives and their kids with a single, short and brutal tweet.
Trump was not loved but he was feared by every GOP politician. That was great for his agenda, no matter how crazy and nonsensical it was. Biden, on the other hand, is neither loved nor feared. Dem senators openly defy his agenda without consequences and he’s routinely ignored by House and state democrats. We’re doomed come November!
barryaksarben
What it shows is that the justice department and the FBI, CIA and other so called law enforcement groups are operating seperately from our government itself. They support the far right and will drag their heels even tho our NATION”S CAPITOL was attacked. Have you noticed that 60 years of affirmative action all these agencys are STILL 90% white straight male. All these years and they cant find latino, women or black applicants qualified? Bullsh*t. And many of the moderate dems are bought and paid for like Sinema who are doing what they are told to do and corporations do not want white AMericans to be upset so this will drag on til the gop is in the majority again and they will start arresting people who protested the murder of George FLloyd.
rangerwilcox
why is the cross around her neck not burning her?
Cam
Notice how all of these supposed “Christians” have no problem breaking the commandment against lying and yet media never every calls them out on it when they profess that they’re good Christians.
bachy
Mary is an American hero. She’s been integral to the creation of an antidote to the Trump venom still poisoning the American bloodstream.
Jaquelope
@Ronbo & @Globetrotter : The GOP rushing things in generally falls apart quickly, and it is well known that the “wheels of Justice move slowly, so it can be seen that the Dems are trying to make sure they have a rock solid case before moving ahead. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so it behooves us to have some patience, but the truth *will* come out when it’s the right time.
It takes several hours to roast a turkey, and these turkeys need to roast a bit longer until we can stick a fork in them and call them done.
Mister P
The fear of Hell is supposed keep all the “Christians” inline, but it ain’t a working.
JBT
@Ronbo – How about a little reality check: Democrats are “looking back”, and they follow the law. DJT is closer to being prosecuted for several arenas of crimes, closer than ever before in his history of criminal behavior, thanks to Democrats.
1. DoJ prosecutes and jails people, Not “the Democrats”.
2. Jan 6 panel has received testimony from hundreds of people, and many inner circle have opted to plead the 5th. They have also received thousands of pages of evidence, although, DJTs was in shreds and required taping back together.
3. If the shoe was on other foot, I thank God that Democrats do NOT behave like the GOP who investigates for the sake of impacting Dem voters’ views of Democratic political leaders who have committed NO crimes, i.e., Hillary.
4. Democrats impeached DJT twice, investigated Russian/GOP crimes that led to the rigged election win of DJT. The GOP under him, the DOJ, wanted to jail Democrats, Hillary, all political enemies, but they had no evidence of crimes.
5. DOJ has prosecuted hundreds of rioters, now, some are in jail. Democrats are getting goods from the plea bargains of many that DOJ has flipped, gathering more evidence against the GOP.
6. This GOP is not a political party, it is a terror organization, headed by a man who is mentally ill, and this mental illness has been confused with political ideology. GOP has exploited his illness to usher in the right wing long held beliefs of injustice, anti-egalitarianism, and it makes the whole thing look like dictatorship.
100% of DJT behaviors, anger, thoughts are due to his NARCISSISM, not political beliefs. This makes him the most dangerous man in power considering there is a constitutional array of protections for him and his acolytes.
ShiningSex
why isn’t the news talking more about how Trump said in his latest Klan rally that his cult needs to have the biggest “protest” in history if he is charged in NY, GA, and DC. That is the same rhetoric he said at the riot at the Capitol. He’s the most UnAmerican POS around.
CNY1983
Like a wise man once said: LET IT COME DOWN.
Enough fox, enough insane republicans, ENOUGH.
time to pay the piper trumps, every dog has his day and
today is your day.