Subpoena from Rep. Bennie Thompson's committee attributes allegation to
legendary journalist's latest book, which makes no such claim, in
potential embarrassment for Democrat-led probe.
"The subpoena for Mr. Kerik references page 234 of our book, 'Peril,'" the Post journalists said. You can read that here:
Spokespersons for Thompson and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is playing an outside role in the Jan. 6 probe, did not return phone or email messages Monday seeking comment.
The Jan. 5 allegation against Kerik in the subpoena is just the latest in a long line of examples dating to the now-debunked Russia collusion probe of how fiction or uncorroborated allegations can become fact in a hyperpartisan Washington where Democratic investigators and news media keep close ties.
In Kerik's case, Just the News retraced his steps in part through the EZPASS toll-paying transponder in his car.
The toll payment records show Kerik traveled north on I-95 from Washington DC the evening of Jan. 4, hitting a toll in Delaware around 7:13 p.m. and exiting the last exit on the New Jersey Turnpike in the Jersey suburbs near New York City, where Kerik lives, around 8:36 p.m. that night.
The toll records then show he began a late night track down the New Jersey Turnpike back to Washington D.C., passing through a toll at the southernmost part of the turnpike at 11:46 p.m. on Jan. 5, paying another toll in northern Maryland at 11:51 p.m. and then paying the last toll in Maryland near D.C. around 12:40 a.m. on Jan. 6.
"The United States Congress puts out a press release and says that I'm going to be investigated, and I'm being subpoenaed, based on a meeting that I attended on Jan. 5 with Steve Bannon, Mayor Giuliani and Dr. Eastman and maybe some other people," Kerik told the audience.
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