(CNN)Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday that the January 6 Commissionand A source familiar with the matter told CNN. The source added that the deposition takes place virtually.
Part of the 25th Amendment to Presidential Succession requires the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to vote to remove the president on the grounds that he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office." I admit to doing
Pompeo, who served as CIA director during Trump's first year as president and headed the State Department for the last three years, has been a strong ally and advocate of Trump.
Mastriano, a key figure in Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election, will arrive at a Gettysburg hotel in the weeks after the 2020 election. led a phony legislative “hearing” in which Trump and his then-attorney Rudy Giuliani made false allegations about election fraud. He also chartered a bus to bring Trump supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 and was briefly in charge of a partisan "audit" of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 2020 election. } Several Trump Cabinet officials have already met with the committee, including Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia. . Attorney General William Barr also met with the commission, but he had left the administration before the Jan. 6 riots.
This story has been updated with additional background information.