{"id":40924,"date":"2022-04-27T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rep-boebert-involved-in-beginning-stages-of-white-house-jan-6-planning-ex-aide-says\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:26:55","slug":"rep-boebert-involved-in-beginning-stages-of-white-house-jan-6-planning-ex-aide-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rep-boebert-involved-in-beginning-stages-of-white-house-jan-6-planning-ex-aide-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Boebert involved in \u2018beginning stages\u2019 of White House Jan. 6 planning, ex-aide says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in the 3rd Congressional District, speaks to a crowd of about 75 in September 2020 during a campaign stop in Bayfield. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was involved in the \u201cbeginning stages\u201d of talks with senior White House officials that ultimately led to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to decertify the 2020 election results, a former top aide told congressional investigators.<\/p>\n

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, identified Boebert as one of a small group of Republican lawmakers who met with Meadows as early as the last week of November 2020 to \u201craise the idea\u201d of former Vice President Mike Pence intervening to prevent the certification of election results by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. The ensuing assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters that day led to the deaths of five people and Trump\u2019s eventual second impeachment trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hutchinson named Boebert in testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in February. Portions of her testimony<\/a> were made public this week as part of a legal filing made by lawyers for the committee in a lawsuit brought against it by Meadows in an effort to block several subpoenas.<\/p>\n

Under questioning from committee investigators, Hutchinson recalled several meetings in the weeks after Thanksgiving in which \u201ccampaign officials and a few members of Congress\u201d discussed the possibility of Pence aiding an effort to overturn the election results on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Scott Perry, Mr. Jim Jordan \u2026 Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are the four members that immediately jump out to me,\u201d Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recall those individuals being involved in the earlier stages at this time,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m sure there were other individuals involved, but those are ones that I remember specifically being involved that Mr. Meadows had outreach to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boebert, a controversial first-term lawmaker from Silt, has been scrutinized for giving tours of the Capitol to a \u201clarge group<\/a>\u201d of people on the day before the insurrection, and for sending tweets that some characterized as relaying \u201cintel\u201d<\/a> about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s location during the attack. On the morning of Jan. 6, she tweeted, \u201cToday is 1776.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Hutchinson also said that \u201cMs. Ellis\u201d was among the campaign officials who had early meetings with Meadows about the issue \u2013 an apparent reference to Colorado attorney Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to the Trump campaign. Ellis wrote a memo sent to Meadows on Dec. 31, 2020, in which she argued Pence had the power to overturn the election, ABC News reported <\/a>last year.<\/p>\n

Constitutional scholars have overwhelmingly rejected<\/a> the argument that vice presidents have any authority to influence the counting of electoral votes in the congressional certification process, and conspiracy theories alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been exhaustively debunked<\/a> by state <\/a>and local officials<\/a>, experts<\/a>, law enforcement authorities<\/a> and the courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To read more stories from Colorado Newsline, visit www.coloradonewsline.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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