between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
a key asset for the justice department in its investigation. we know from the talking points memo reporting that perry and meadows alone, quote, exchanged at least 62 messages in the period from election day, november 3, 2020, through president biden s inauguration on january 20th. and we also know from the testimony of meadows former aide, cassidy hutchinson, that perry was one of the many members of congress who needed a pardon. mr. biggs said he talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. it was more for an update on whether the white house was going to pardon members of congress. mr. gomer asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. i m sorry. i didn t mean to cut you off. a closer look at doj s probe and their interest in
teeth, targeting us, and determined to stop the electoral college count. what our commander in chief did was wildly different from what anyone here in this room did to raise election concerns. this was a deliberate premeditated incitement to his base to attack our capitol while the counting was going on. and it was foreseeable. especially to president trump. who warned us he knew what was coming. so, in light of the filing last friday night and the testimony of meadows former assistant, ms. hutchinson, that 11 members of congress were aware of this plot, do you want to amend this statement? you said this. what our commander in chief did was wildly different from what anyone here in this room did to raise election concerns. you know, you said at the top, they were all in on it. i gave them the benefit of the doubt at the time.