But the files do not appear to include text messages from the time of most interest to the committee: the day of Jan. 6, 2021, and the weeks following the attack, according to people familiar with the document production. Although the phone data was recovered in mid-2021, the most recent message is from mid-2020, according to Mark Bankston, who is representing Sandy Hook parents suing Mr. Jones for defamation over lies he spread about with the 2012 school shooting. That time period is before Mr. Jones became involved in plans to rally pro-Trump crowds in Washington to march on Capitol Hill as Mr. Trump struggled to stay in office despite his defeat at the polls. Text messages obtained by the committee on Monday — contained in a large file of documents and other information from Mr. Jones’ phone — include some that show Mr. Jones was in contact with Trump allies, a person familiar with the messages said. . Mr. Bankston said they included texts with political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. Mr Bankston obtained the phone data from Mr Jones’ lawyers, who had sent it to him by mistake.
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Card 1 of 9 Suing Trump. The House committee investigating the January 6 attack presents a comprehensive account of President Donald J. Trump to overturn the 2020 election. Here are the main themes that have emerged so far from eight public hearings: Of the nearly 250 recipients of the texts, most are employees of Mr. Jones’ Infowars business and his contractors and family members, some of whom are involved in his company. The delivery of the text messages was reported earlier by CNN. In court last week in Texas, Mr. Bankston said he planned to hand over the texts to the commission, which had contacted him to receive them, unless Judge Maya Guerra Gamble objected. Late Friday, the judge said he had no objection. Mr. Bankston said at the time that he had heard from “various federal agencies and law enforcement” about the material. The House committee has been pushing for Mr. Jones’ texts for months, saying they could be relevant to understanding his role in helping organize the Ellipse rally near the White House that preceded the riot. In November, the committee filed subpoenas to compel Mr. Jones’ testimony and communications related to Jan. 6, including his phone records. The committee also subpoenaed the communications of Timothy D. Enlow, who was working as Mr. Jones’ bodyguard on January 6. Mr. Jones and Mr. Enlow have filed suit in an attempt to block the committee’s subpoenas. Mr. Jones finally appeared before the committee in January and then said he had invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination nearly 100 times. Although Mr Jones declined to share information with the committee, he said the committee had already received text messages from him. According to the Jan. 6 committee, Mr. Jones helped arrange a donation from Julie Jenkins Fanselli, heiress to the Publix Super Markets fortune, to provide what she described as “80 percent” of the funding for the Jan. 6 rally. in January and indicated that White House officials had told him he was to lead a march on Capitol Hill, where Mr. Trump would speak. Mr. Jones and Mr. Stone were also among the group of Trump allies meeting in and around or staying at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, which some Trump advisers have seen as a war room for their efforts to get members of Congress to oppose in Electoral College Certification.
