“Some of the information we received includes emails you exchanged with senior advisers to President Trump and others, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, in which you provided details on repeated television ads based on false allegations of election fraud. of 2020,” Mississippi Democratic Rep. Benny Thompson, who chairs the committee, wrote in the letter. “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate,” he continued. “Instead, these efforts sought to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place.” The committee cites another email Gingrich sent to Kushner and Miller on Dec. 8, 2020, in response to a proposed script for a television ad about election fraud. The panel said it shows Gingrich “didn’t just try to persuade.” “The goal is to infuriate the country through new verifiable information that the American people have never seen before.[.] … If we inform the American people in a way that they find persuasive and infuriate[,] they will then lobby legislators and governors,” the email states, according to the committee’s letter. The panel also alleges that Gingrich was involved in an effort by Trump supporters to file fake voters in some states, which was a major focus of the panel and is now also part of a Justice Department investigation. It also notes that Gingrich wrote to then-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and former White House counsel Pat Cipollone on Nov. 12, 2020, asking, “Is someone in charge of coordinating all the voters?” The committee also refers to an email Gingrich sent to Meadows at 10:42 p.m. on the day of the Jan. 6 attack, after members had returned to finish certifying the election. “[A]there are letters from state legislators about voter disqualification[?]he asked, according to the committee. The committee is asking to conduct a voluntary, transcribed interview with Gingrich during the week of September 19. This story has been updated with additional details.
