Fat-then President Trump told then-Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th, 2021 that the veep would forever doomed in Republican politics (he wasn’t wrong) if he did not get in the way of certifying the results of the 2020 election, the New York Times reports citing the testimony of a person described only as a “White House valet” to the House January 6th Select committee.
“Mike, this is a political career killer if you do this,” Trump told Pence in the Oval Office. Later that day, when handed a note informing him that a civilian had been shot in the middle of the riot at the Capitol, Donald was utterly unconcerned. “I just remember seeing it in front of him,” the valet said of a note card Trump was given bearing news of the casualty as he watched the mayhem on TV. “I don’t remember how it got there or whatever. But there was no, like, reaction.”
The valet was unnamed and we have no idea whether or not he’s Walt Nauta, Trump’s now co-conspirator in the classified documents theft case. The transcript of the interview with the House January 6th Select Committee was one of a set withheld in deference to the White House and Homeland Security as the committee wound down with the end of the 117th Congress, surfacing now as part of traitor-adjacent MAGA Congressman Barry Loudermilk’s investigation of the investigation. “It took a whole lot of work to get these,” Loudermilk told the Times, conceding that “some testimony in it that may not be favorable to Trump. We’re putting it all out there, not doing what the select committee did, and putting things out there that will be favorable to our side.”