'This is a political career killer': White House valet heard Trump warn Pence on Jan. 6

A onetime White House valet for Donald Trump told House investigators that the former president threatened Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, and his way of dealing with documents was to "throw them on the floor," newly released records show.

This new perspective inside the Trump Administration appears in the Jan. 6 Select Committee's transcribed interview with a White House staffer who was near the former president on the historic day when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) announced Thursday.

The heavily redacted transcript shows House members questioning the valet about a phone call Trump placed to Pence at 11:20 a.m.

"What do you remember?" the interviewer asks. Midway through a partially redacted answer, the valet says, "Mike, this is a political career killer if you do this. Do what's right."

Another question follows: "Do you know what the President was referring to? Did he explain that to the Vice President in that call?"

"That's all I heard," the valet replies.

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More questions and answers have been redacted, but the valet testifies he never heard Trump call Pence a "p---y" or a "wimp," as has been reported by the New York Times.

But the valet does admit Trump seemed troubled by the call.

"I could just tell that at that point, he was frustrated," the valet testified. "It probably wasn't a good call. He was frustrated, disappointed, you know, I could tell."

The valet also disclosed an odd detail about how the former president disposed of documents.

"Generally speaking, do you remember the President ever tearing up or destroying documents that he had seen?" an interviewer asks.

"That's typically what he would do once he's finished with a document," the valet replied. "That was his sign of, like, he was done reading it."

"He likes to look at pictures, and he would just tear it once he's done looking at it and just throw it on the floor."

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