Trump says he took cognitive test because people kept calling him stupid
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr has voluntarily testified to the select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol. In a session conducted without a subpoena, the president’s oldest child reportedly answered questions without pleading the Fifth Amendment as several other close Trump associates have.
The younger Trump is the third member of his family known to have testified to the commitee, after his sister Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. The committee is still considering whether and how to request testimony from the former president himself as it tries to piece together his movements and communications on the day of the riot.
Meanwhile, newly released audio from the days after the insurrection shows House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy calling for a “smooth transition” between presidents and saying the time had come for him and Mr Trump to “reach out to Biden” – though he accepts that Mr Trump is unlikely ever to sit down with the man who defeated him.
