Who's turned against Trump? A list of current and ex-aides, lawyers, and confidants who have willingly (and unwillingly) cooperated with DOJ and congressional investigators.

Ginni Thomas, conservative activist and wife of Justice Clarence Thomas

Ginni Thomas.
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Thomas spoke with the January 6 committee on September 29.

In her interview, Thomas, a conservative activist who urged state officials and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to overturn the election results, reiterated her belief that the 2020 vote was stolen, according to CNN.

William Barr, the former attorney general

Barr in a video deposition shared by the January 6 panel on June 9.
House Select Committee via AP

Barr, who was once a staunch defender of Donald Trump, swung against the former president when he was deposed by the January 6 panel.

At the beginning of the hearings in June, it was revealed that the former attorney general told the committee that Trump's election lies were "bullshit" and disagreed with plans to say the election was stolen.

In a March interview with NPR, Barr said Trump would be a "weaker candidate" for the 2024 election. More recently, Barr told Fox News' "America Reports" that Trump had no "legitimate reason" to keep classified material at his Mar-a-Lago home, and the Department of Justice was "being jerked around" by Trump's lawyers.  

Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel

Cipollone in a video deposition shown by the January 6 panel on July 12.
House Select Committee via AP

As a high-ranking official, Cipollone has been a key witness in multiple federal investigations.

He was deposed by the January 6 panel and subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the events around the day of the attacks, though he invoked executive privilege for some of the questions. On September 2, Cipollone spent two and a half hours behind closed doors with the grand jury, The Washington Post reported

The FBI also interviewed the attorney regarding sensitive documents that were removed from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, according to The New York Times.

Alex Cannon, a former Trump campaign lawyer

Cannon in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel hearing on June 9.
House Select Committee via AP

Cannon, Trump's former campaign lawyer, said in his deposition with the January 6 panel that he expressed doubts about the conspiracy theories claiming that Dominion voting machines interfered with people's votes.

He was accused of being a "deep-state operative" by a former Trump aide, Peter Navarro, according to his testimony in the second House hearing.

Elaine Chao, the former secretary of Transportation

Chao.
Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Chao, the former secretary of Transportation and wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, met with the January 6 panel in early August, according to CNN.

The report said the discussion may have been about the Cabinet's plans to invoke the 25th Amendment in order to remove Donald Trump from office.

Chao was one of the first members of the Cabinet to resign after the Capitol riot.

Justin Clark, a former Trump campaign lawyer

Clark in a video deposition shown at the January 6 panel hearing on June 21.
House Select Committee via AP

Clark, a former Trump campaign lawyer and advisor, was interviewed by DOJ prosecutors regarding the former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's criminal contempt case. 

Clark provided key accounts that contradicted statements from Bannon, who said that Trump claimed executive privilege over Bannon's testimony to the January 6 committee.

Clark said that Trump never did that, according to ABC News.

Judd Deere, a former White House deputy press secretary

Deere.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Deere spoke with the January 6 panel in response to a subpoena.

In his testimony, Deere said he told Trump that the time to challenge the election had passed.

"I told [Trump in December 2020] that my personal viewpoint was the Electoral College had met, which is the system that our country is set under to elect a president and vice president," he said to the committee, according to Axios. "I believed at that point that the means for him to pursue litigation was probably closed."

Deere's attorney had no comment when reached by Insider.

Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general

Donoghue testified before the January 6 panel on June 23.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Donoghue was one of several officials in Trump's Justice Department who strongly opposed efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

He reviewed a letter from then Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark that suggested the DOJ claim evidence of election fraud in Georgia to stop the certification of Biden's victory.

Donoghue publicly testified before the January 6 panel on June 23.

Steven Engel, a former assistant attorney general

Engel testified before the January 6 panel on June 23.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Engel resisted Donald Trump's plan to use the Justice Department to cast doubt on the 2020 election results. He testified before the January 6 panel on June 23.

When reached by Insider, Engel declined to comment.

Rudy Giuliani, a former Trump attorney

Giuliani at a news conference in New York on June 7.
Mary Altaffer/AP

Giuliani, Trump's former personal attorney, was deposed by the January 6 panel.

He was also subpoenaed by a grand jury in the Justice Department probe and by a special grand jury in Georgia – though, legal experts told The Times that he likely declined to answer many or most questions during a grand jury proceeding for the case in August. 

Both judicial bodies will be looking at Giuliani's role in pushing plans to interfere with the election results. 

Eric Herschmann, a former White House attorney

Herschmann in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel hearing on June 16.
House Select Committee via AP

Herschmann testified in a video deposition to the January 6 panel and told investigators that he opposed Trump's plans to overturn the 2020 election results.

He asked John Eastman, a lawyer who pushed Trump's election lies, if he was "out of his effing mind," according to his deposition.

Herschmann was also subpoenaed by the Georgia special grand jury, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Chris Hodgson, the former director of legislative affairs for Mike Pence

Hodgson in a video deposition shown at the January 6 panel hearing on June 16.
House Select Committee via AP

Hodgson, Mike Pence's director of legislative affairs, was deposed by the January 6 panel.

According to text messages retrieved by the committee, Hodgson denied Sen. Ron Johnson's request to hand off an alternate slate of electors to the vice president.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide to Mark Meadows

Hutchinson at a January 6 panel hearing on June 28.
Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images

Hutchinson, the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, spoke before the January 6 panel, in private and in public, and provided bombshell testimony, claiming Trump lashed out at his Secret Service detail on the day of the Capitol riot.

Greg Jacob, the former White House counsel to Mike Pence

Jacob testified before the January 6 panel on June 16.
Susan Walsh/AP

Jacob testified publicly before the January 6 panel on June 16. He said he advised the vice president not to go along with Trump's request to decertify the election results.

Keith Kellogg, the former national security advisor to Mike Pence

Kellogg.
Andrew Harnik/AP

Kellogg testified in a deposition to the January 6 panel that he was one of several officials who urged the president to tell his supporters to back down on the day of the riot.

Kellogg also testified that he never heard Trump call for the national guard or law enforcement when the Capitol was breached, according to CNN.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and a former senior advisor to Donald Trump

Kushner.
Andrew Harnik/AP

Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a former senior advisor, was one of the first of the former president's family members to speak with the January 6 committee.

Kushner told investigators that he was focused on pushing to get "as many pardons done as possible" toward the end of Trump's presidency.

He also said he considered White House counsel Pat Cipollone's threats to resign during the January 6 attack as "whining."

In an interview with Sky News on September 2, Kushner suggested he would not be returning to the White House. He has also declined to embrace the baseless theory that the election was stolen.

Nick Luna, a former White House aide

Luna in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel's hearing on June 28.
House Select Committee via AP

Luna, who was deposed by the January 6 panel, was one of several officials close to Trump who could provide an account of how the former president constantly went off script in his press briefings, according to CNN.

Derek Lyons, the former White House staff secretary

Lyons in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel hearing on July 12.
House Select Committee via AP

In deposition for the January 6 committee, Lyons confirmed there was a discussion between Cipollone, Herschmann, Trump, and others about the lack of evidence of wide-scale election fraud, according to PolitiFact.

Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary

Matthews testified before the January 6 panel on July 21.
Patrick Semansky/AP

Matthews publicly testified before the January 6 panel on July 21.

Matthews resigned from her position the day after the Capitol riot. She denounced Trump's response and pushed the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to urge Trump and his team to send a strong message to supporters to leave the Capitol.

Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair

McDaniel.
Rick Bowmer/AP

McDaniel, the GOP chairperson, was interviewed by the January 6 committee. She testified that she was on a call with Trump and John Eastman, a Trump lawyer, discussing a plan to gather a slate of electors to overturn the 2020 election results, according to CNN.

McDaniel later called the panel a "Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse."

Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary

McEnany.
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

McEnany was deposed by the January 6 panel and provided several accounts of Trump's response to the Capitol breach, including that the former president wanted to join the protesters at the Capitol.

John McEntee, the former director of the White House presidential personnel office

McEntee.
Al Drago/Getty Images

McEntee was deposed by the January 6 committee and recounted conversations about providing "blanket" pardons for everyone involved in the Capitol attack, according to ABC News.

Jason Miller, a former Trump campaign spokesman and advisor

Miller.
Andrew Harnik/AP

Jason Miller, a former chief spokesman and advisor to the Trump campaign, was deposed by the January 6 panel.

He told investigators that Trump was notified by a lead campaign-data analyst that he would lose the election, according to CBS News.

Max Miller, a former White House aide

Miller is running for Congress as a Republican.
Joe Maiorana/AP

Miller, along with several other Trump officials, confirmed that the former president wanted to go to the Capitol to join the protesters.

In an emailed statement to Insider, Miller, who is also a congressional candidate for Ohio's 7th district, called the investigations "partisan witch hunts."

"As a member of Congress, I look forward to ending these partisan witch hunts and political circuses, and instead, get on with the business of the people: safe communities, a strong border, peace abroad and building an economy that works for my constituents," he wrote.

Stephen Miller, speechwriter and senior policy advisor

Miller at the South Lawn of the White House in DC.
Patrick Semansky/AP

Miller testified behind closed doors with the January 6 committee for eight hours, according to CNN.

As a speechwriter and senior policy advisor to Trump, Miller helped prepare the speech the former president made at the Ellipse, just a few hours before rioters began to storm the Capitol, CNN reported. He was also inside the White House with Trump on the day of the insurrection.

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Milley.
Jose Luis Magana/AP

In his deposition with the January 6 panel, Milley expressed concerns over Trump's response to the Capitol breach.

"You're the commander in chief," he said during closed-door testimony. "You've got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. Nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?"

Milley has said he was close to resigning from his position as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after Trump's infamous photo op in front of St. John's Church during the George Floyd protests.

Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer and former Trump advisor

Mitchell.
Matt Rourke/AP

Mitchell sat for a deposition with the January 6 panel and was subpoenaed by the Georgia grand jury investigating attempts to overturn the state's election results.

Mitchell was part of the legal team that coordinated a plan to use a slate of fake electors in Georgia to rescind Joe Biden's victory. 

Matthew Morgan, a former Trump campaign lawyer

Morgan.
Alex Brandon/AP

The January 6 panel showed footage of Miller's testimony, in which he said there was "not sufficient" evidence of wrongdoing in the election results, adding to the list of officials who knew Trump had lost the election, according to The Washington Post.

Robert O'Brien, the former national security advisor

O'Brien.
Evan Vucci/AP

O'Brien met with the January 6 committee on August 23, according to NBC News.

Investigators asked O'Brien about Cabinet discussions around invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, whether he considered resigning, and what kind of access Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, had to Trump, The New York Times reported.

Patrick Philbin, a former White House deputy counsel

Philbin.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Philbin was expected to speak informally with the January 6 panel, according to Politico.

He also was subpoenaed for the Justice Department's probe into the Capitol attack, CNN reported.

Separately, he was interviewed by the FBI on matters related to the White House documents that were stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

He and Cipollone were the point people to deal with the National Archives and Records Administration after Trump left office, The New York Times reported.

Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of State

Pompeo.
John Raoux/AP

Pompeo was interviewed by the January 6 committee on August 9. Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "he came in willingly, and he did answer questions for quite some time." 

The panel was interested in the Trump Cabinet's discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

Pompeo has hinted at his own possible run for president in 2024, but he has yet to make an official announcement, according to Fox News.

Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security advisor

Pottinger.
Andrew Harnik/AP

Pottinger testified publicly before the January 6 committee on July 21. He was one of the Trump officials to resign shortly after the Capitol riot and criticized the former president's response to the attacks.

Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer

Powell.
Ben Margot/AP

Powell, a former Trump campaign lawyer who pushed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, testified before the January 6 committee.

In her testimony, Powell doubled down on her support for Trump and said that she would have "fired" all of Trump's White House counsel at the time who questioned claims about election fraud. 

Julie Radford, the former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump

Radford in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel hearing on June 17.
House Select Committee via AP

Radford was deposed by the January 6 panel and described the president's daughter's state of mind during the Capitol riot. She said that Ivanka Trump felt she could help calm the situation by accompanying her father to his speech at the Ellipse.

Jeffrey Rosen, the former acting attorney general

Rosen testified before the January 6 panel on June 23.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Rosen testified before the January 6 panel on June 23 and confirmed to lawmakers that Trump suggested that the DOJ should send letters to states claiming there was voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Mike Pence

Short.
Patrick Semansky/AP

Short, who spoke with the January 6 committee, warned the Secret Service that Trump was about to publicly turn against Pence after the vice president refused to go along with plans to stop the certification of the election, The New York Times reported.

Bill Stepien, a former Trump campaign manager

Stepien.
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Stepien was interviewed by the January 6 committee and testified that he had warned against making an early victory call for the 2020 election, according to Axios.

Ivanka Trump, a daughter and former senior advisor to Trump

Ivanka Trump.
Charlie Neibergall/AP

In prerecorded testimony to the January 6 committee, Ivanka Trump said that she "accepted" Attorney General Barr's statements that the election-fraud claims were false.

Her father in response wrote on Truth Social that "Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!)" 

Ben Williamson, a former aide to Mark Meadows

Williamson, right, in a video deposition shown during the January 6 panel's hearing on June 16.


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