House committee asks if Trump was offered a stake in Parler
“Since the attacks, numerous Parler users have been arrested and charged for their roles, with the Department of Justice citing in several instances the threats that individuals made through Parler in the days leading up to and following the attack,” stated the committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), in a statement. “Individuals with ties to the January 6 assault should not — and must not — be allowed to hide behind the veil of anonymity provided by shell companies.”
Maloney final month known as for the FBI to look at the function Parler performed in fomenting the Capitol assault and what ties, if any, it has with Russia. The firm has used a a Russian-owned Web providers firm, DDoS-Guard, since Amazon Web Services and different corporations withdrew their technical help final month.
The letter particularly asks about this and another possession or different enterprise relationships Parler could have with “any Russian individual or entity.” The request additionally seeks details about a report in BuzzFeed News final week about negotiations between Parler and Trump over the opportunity of his taking an possession stake in the corporate.
Twitter kicked Trump off of its platform two days after the Capitol assault, and he has expressed in discovering a new social media house however has not carried out so. He had 88 million followers on Twitter, and his account was central to his political energy and his capacity to drive information protection towards problems with his selecting.
One challenge cited in the earlier letter from the House committee, involving the Parler chief govt’s marriage to a Russian lady, seems to stay of curiosity to the committee regardless that the corporate fired the manager, John Matze, final week.
