Trump Spokesperson Taylor Budowich Collaborates With Capitol Riot Committee On Jan. 6 — Then Hits the Brakes

Despite all the confusion from the Trump team railing against the congressional committee investigating January 6 uprising, a spokesman for the former president has been quietly cooperating with investigators, a new lawsuit reveals.

Taylor Budowich, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, turned over more than 1,700 pages of documents and testified under oath. Committee for four hours, according to a litigation he filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday.

On Christmas Eve, Budowich sued member of the committee, Home Speakers Nancy Pelosi, and the bank JPMorgan Chase to block investigators’ attempts to capture information about him from the financial institution. The lawsuit also provides a glimpse into the commission’s work.

Although Budowich in the past was grilled lamb The bipartisan panel is investigating an attempt to block Joe Biden’s 2020 winning certification as a “Fake Not Selected Committee,” which turns out he’s been cooperating for some time.

In his lawsuit, Budowich revealed that at the time of his ouster on Thursday before the committee, he had “answered questions regarding payments made and received in connection with his participation in participate in planning a peaceful, legal protest to celebrate President Trump’s achievement.”

That revelation shows to what extent the committee continues to probe — if at all — Trump and his inner circle try to prevent a peaceful transfer of power and driving a violent mob attack the US Capitol.

Budowich is suing the commission, in part he claims, because it was so confusing for him that investigators went to the bank to try to get more information about the payments he himself had disclosed.

“The Select Committee’s deceptive tactics to ambush Mr Budowich and deprive him of a meaningful opportunity to protest the production of personal financial records demonstrate the Selection Committee’s lack of goodwill, ” the complaint states.

Budowich’s attorney is Christopher Westley Dempsey, a former immigration attorney at the Department of Justice.

In court filings, Budowich claimed that he testified before the committee on Thursday, only to get home and receive a notice from his bank at 7 p.m. that they were about to turn over the financial documents. his account. The bank apparently refused his pleas to prevent that from happening and only gave him until the next afternoon to provide some sort of official document to prevent it from transferring records, so Budowich filed a lawsuit in federal court for the District of Columbia. He is now asking the judge to use the emergency restraining order to freeze the bank.

Budowich’s effort is just the latest effort last minute joke from Team Trump to try and stop the commission From the collection of White House documents, phone logs, emails and bank records may shed light on their involvement in the process through January 6.

Trump sued to prevent the committee from receiving internal memos from his final weeks in office, when he actively cast doubt on the 2020 election results, and used cases and threats in an attempt to roll out the vote and erase Biden’s lead.

ONE federal judge and a appellate panel ruled against Trump, who has now made that fight to the US Supreme Court. Meanwhile, loyal lieutenants like the former White House strategist Steven Bannon, former DOJ . official Jeffrey Clark, and was the chief of staff for a time Mark Meadows, who have resisted subpoenas to testify before the committee, could now face jail time for contempt of Congress. Bannon was arrested and faced trial the following year.