Meet Garrett Ziegler: Today's top J6 witness was a key participant in Trump's election fraud scheme

[Jilly_in_VA]

Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to Trade Advisor Peter Navarro who acted as a key conduit between the Trump White House and the sprawling network of lawyers and conspiracy mongers promoting dubious election fraud theories in the final months of 2020, is expected to speak to the January 6th Committee on Tuesday morning.

Ziegler announced his interview in a message to his followers on Telegram at the stroke of midnight on Monday, writing, “Yours truly going before the scam committee on Tuesday morning. Such a joke, but don’t worry — I’ll do nothing but tell the truth: Trump did nothing wrong & the election was stolen!”

Fanatically loyal to Trump, Ziegler played a crucial role in facilitating an infamous late-night meeting in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020 by using his access pass to usher lawyer Sidney Powell, retired Lt. General Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne into the White House, where they proposed a plan to have the president invoke the Insurrection Act while ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines and re-run the election in states narrowly lost to Joe Biden.

The meeting, which ran for four and a half hours, devolved into a screaming match between the Powell camp and White House lawyers led by Chief Counsel Pat Cipollone, with the two sides nearly coming to blows. At the end, Trump reportedly appointed Powell to the ill-defined position of special counsel, although nothing seems to have come of the action. Byrne, who reportedly spoke to the January 6th Committee on July 15, recently told the far-right outlet Epoch Times that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, told him he persuaded the president to reverse course by telling him that if they went forward with the plan “we’d all be in prison.”

Less than two hours after the raucous meeting broke up, Trump tweeted a call for his supporters to descend on Washington, DC on Jan. 6. Trump’s tweet included a link to the Navarro Report, which was prepared with Ziegler’s assistance. The president wrote, “Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud ‘more than sufficient’ to swing victory to Trump. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”

https://www.rawstory.com/garrett-ziegler-2657690865/

Exercise in futility, methinks

[onecaliberal]

1. So this criminal prick will be taking the 5th 7 thousand times.

[quaint]

2. When is today's hearing, searched but nothing.

Thank you.

[Ocelot II]

4. It's not live or televised - it's a closed door deposition.

[quaint]

5. Thanks!

[duckworth969]

3. hostile witness? Sure looks that way

“… Ziegler announced his interview in a message to his followers on Telegram at the stroke of midnight on Monday, writing, “Yours truly going before the scam committee on Tuesday morning. Such a joke, but don’t worry — I’ll do nothing but tell the truth: Trump did nothing wrong & the election was stolen!”

[Ocelot II]

12. Let's see how hostile he is when questioned under oath by a bunch of lawyers

who are a whole lot smarter than he is and who are determined to turn over a whole lot of rocks in order to find out what and who is under them. He'll fold like a cheap lawn chair.

[kentuck]

6. I'm sure he will explain the "Green Bay Sweep" to the Committee...

Just like Navarro taught him.

That should be an interesting interview.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. He's talkative.

[Walleye]

8. Now I'm wondering what Ziegler's connection to Russia is

[AntiFascist]

9. One of Ziegler's "conduits" to Trump via Giuliani was Michael Trimarco...

who was further involved with Cambridge Analytica, also linked to Dish Network...

Trimarco claimed in his March interview with Vandersteel that “the feds are coming after me” related to a matter involving Cambridge Analytica — the British consulting firm that used Facebook data to micro-target voters to the advantage of the Trump campaign in 2016. He further asserted that Giuliani was representing him in the matter. It is unclear exactly what Trimarco’s relationship to Cambridge Analytica is, but a Fast Company story linked Cambridge Analytica to members of the Ergen family, who own Dish Network, and court records indicate that Trimarco was involved in marketing and distribution work for Dish Network in 2010.

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-aide-overturn-election/

[Walleye]

10. I'm starting to understand the phrase "thick as thieves"

[DFW]

11. IF he is really planning to tell the truth

He will be given enough rope, and not know what hit him until it hangs him.

[Ocelot II]

13. Another Trump acolyte who'll probably recognize too late

that the committee has thoroughly cooked his goose, to add another metaphor. So when his goose is cooked and he's hanged with his own rope, and possibly hoist on his own petard, will he be thrown under the bus?

[DFW]

14. Any Trumpanzee whose usefulness has faded ends up under one bus or another

In this case, probably sooner rather than later.