We have seen a lot of former officials from the Trump administration, try to fight the
subpoenas that the January 6th committee has sent them.
They've refused to cooperate.
That's pretty much been the theme for the past year that this committee has been doing
their job.
But something very interesting has happened in the last few weeks.
And that is that several former Trump officials have decided, you know what?
I'm just gonna come and talk to you guys.
I'm gonna try to clear the air, clear my name, just in case you were looking at anything
I may have done.
And you know what?
You don't even have to subpoena me because the committee didn't and three individuals
from the Trump administration decided I'm gonna lawyer up and I'm gonna come talk to
you right now, just to head things off before my name gets mentioned by anybody.
Those three individuals are former Trump, chief of staff, Mulvaney, Steve Minuchin,
the former treasury secretary and Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state.
They have all three, according to reports, gone and spoken voluntarily to the January
6th committee.
And according to legal experts, they're doing this because they see how real this investigation
has become.
They see all of this horrible information that is coming out.
They see the DOJ ramping up their investigation and they don't want to get sucked into any
of it, right?
They don't even wanna run the risk of being subpoenaed and compelled to come and testify.
They would rather get their lawyers work on their information and then voluntarily go
and sit so that they don't have to be called in the future.
They can do their stuff quietly.
They can give whatever information they may have and they can walk away and put it all
behind them.
And I think the reason for that is not just, you know, to make sure that they don't get
called in the crossfire, but to also make sure that they're not some of the people who
end up going down for this, right?
You go and willingly testify because you don't want somebody else coming and doing it before
you to throw you under the bus.
This is self preservation.
And anytime when you have a big investigation like this targeting a bunch of different people
and you start seeing people switch into that survival mode, that's when you can get people
to flip that's when you get some of these even die, hard loyal Trumpists who understand
that now their freedom is in danger.
That's when you can get 'em that's when you can convince them to turn over whatever they
may have, even if they didn't want to do it, to save their own behinds.
And I think we're gonna see a lot more of this.
In fact, the legal experts are
Also predicting that we're gonna see a lot more of this.
These investigations are real.
Now.
They are serious.
People are being subpoenaed by the DOJ.
Their electronic devices are being seized.
People who have had conversations with Donald Trump's lawyer or Donald Trump himself, or
Mark Meadows, all of these people could potentially be targets and they want to take the target
off their back and go and cooperate as soon as possible so that nobody else is able to
throw them under the bus.
The rats folks are abandoning the sinking ship and on their way out, they're taking
a couple of bites out of one another.
And this is exactly what prosecutors were likely hoping would happen.