"Nick Luna testified fully and honestly and doesn't have any further comments," Luna's counsel told CBS News on Tuesday.Ī spokesman for the House select committee declined to comment. His deposition, which was conducted virtually, was in response to a subpoena issued to him by the committee the previous November. Luna then reiterated, when asked again, that it was "correct" to conclude that it was a "rare occurrence" for him to be asked to stay out of the room ahead of a Trump meeting. "But that's not - I don't know if odd would be the right characterization." "It may have been one of two or three times that he asked me to do that," Luna said. When pressed on the context and on whether it was odd for Meadows to ask him to stay out of the room, Luna said he was uncertain of the context but noted it was rare. But I do remember him on, on one or the other of those being, before going into the meeting, in my office." I didn't know - I don't remember that those were the places. "I don't remember if it was the Michigan or Pennsylvania. "I just remember being around the office," Luna told the House select committee. Both of those sessions included discussions about whether state legislatures could take legal or legislative steps to overturn the election results in those respective states, which were carried by President Joe Biden, according to two Trump advisers who were not authorized to speak publicly.
25, 2020, meeting with Pennsylvania legislators. 20, 2020, meeting with Michigan legislators and a Nov. Trump had several documented West Wing meetings with allied state Republican lawmakers in the post-election period, including a Nov. But he said he recalled the directive occurred as Meadows was preparing to meet with visiting state Republican legislators. Luna testified that he was unsure of why Meadows allegedly told him to stay out of the room, and he could not remember when exactly the White House chief of staff told him not to enter. "And I remember, specifically, this instance had said, 'Do not, don't come in, don't come into the room today." "There was one instance where it would normally be my job to go in and make sure that president is comfortable in wherever the situation is," Luna told the committee. The audio files also reveal that Luna testified that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had instructed him to not enter the room ahead of a meeting with state Republican legislators who wanted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. An image of former President Donald Trump and aide Nick Luna on a screen during a hearing by the House Jan. And he was one of the staffers who was regularly with Trump on the day of the attack on the Capitol. Luna, who served as Trump's personal aide inside the White House, had extraordinary access to the president during the final weeks of Trump's term and managed Oval Office operations.
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