
Matthew Pottinger, a former National Security Council employee, will speak at the House committee's prime-time public hearing on January 6.
More than a dozen witnesses have now given live testimony, and the public has seen clips from more than 40 others' recorded depositions, including members of the Trump family.
Furthermore, former administration officials, GOP officials from key battleground states, and members of the former President's legal team.
Who Is Matthew Pottinger's Wife, Yen Pottinger?
Matthew Pottinger's wife Yen Pоttinger is a virologist with a specialization in HIV and tuberculosis. She previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2007 to 2015.
While working for the CDC, she developed an HIV incidence lab test. According to the Miller Center, that test subsequently became the global standard for HIV monitoring research.
View this post on InstagramShe moved to the United States as a youngster after fleeing Vietnam with her family during the Vietnam War.
According to her LinkedIn page, she is a senior technical consultant for laboratory surveillance at ICAP at Columbia University. She took over the position in 2015.
Pottinger leads teams at ICAP to manage the development, initiation, and execution of many of our laboratory projects and activities, drawing on her enthusiasm and skills as an HIV virologist.
Pottinger joined ICAP in 2015 as the senior laboratory adviser for the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) project. There she oversaw the lab component of the first round of PHIA surveys.
She then joined the Tracking Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE) initiative, which incorporates quick recency testing into standard HIV testing facilities.
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From her previous work at CDC ILB, she created the Limiting Antigen test, which was initially validated in SHIMS1(Swaziland HIV Incidence Measurement Survey) under the supervision of Bharat Parekh, Ph.D."
The Limiting Antigen test was subsequently employed across all PHIAs to give one of the key outcomes. It was National HIV incidence estimates, which was a significant advance in the field since it offered reliable estimates of new HIV infections.
The CDC honored Pottinger and his team's public health effect by awarding them the Charles C. Shepard award in laboratory science in 2012. The Limiting Antigen test has become the global standard laboratory-based technique for determining population-level incidence.
She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry earned at McGill University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy earned at the University of California, Davis.
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Meet Former Trump NSC Official, Matthew Pottinger On LinkedIn
Matthew Pottinger was a former President Donald Trump's National Security Council official before resigning in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack.
He is expected to testify publicly at Thursday's prime-time hearing of the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack.
Pottinger will speak alongside Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House adviser.
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In September 2019, Pottinger was named as a deputy adviser to former President Donald Trump. Pottinger resigned in response to Trump's reaction to his supporters invading the US Capitol, a source close to Pottinger told CNN at the time.
At the time, he assured them there was really nothing for him to think about. During one of the committee's previous hearings, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming described Pottinger as "a former Marine intelligence officer who served in the White House for four years.
Similarly, he was a deputy national security adviser and was in the vicinity of the Oval Office at various points throughout the day.
The committee presented a video clip from Pottinger's interview in which he recalled the moment he realized it was time to step down.
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"One of my employees handed me a printout of the President's tweet. The tweet said something to the effect that Mike Pence, the vice president, didn't have the fortitude to do what he — what should have been done," Pottinger says in the film.
"I read the tweet and decided to quit immediately. After seeing that tweet, I knew I had to leave that day."
According to a person familiar with Pottinger's filmed evidence, Pottinger stated that he did not interact with Trump on January 6, 2021.
However, he did enter the Oval Office to tell then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the National Guard had yet to arrive at the Capitol.
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Matthew Pottinger Family Bio
Matthew Pottinger is happily married to his wife Yen since they married in 2014. They live in Utah and have two children together.
Pottinger is the son of Gloria Anderson and a novelist and former Justice Department employee J. Stanley Pottinger. He attended Milton Academy and was a classmate and boyhood pal of John Avlon.
His father also worked as a banker in the 1980s and then as a political executive noted for his civil rights nominations.
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