# Pat Cipollone > [!note] Disambiguation > Not to be confused with [[Piero Cipollone]], the Italian central banker on the European Central Bank's Executive Board. > [!note] Stub — fill out White House Counsel under Trump (2018–2021) who, per reporting Dave Troy cites, talked the president out of a December 2020 push (urged by [[Sidney Powell]] and [[Michael Flynn]]) to declare martial law. A key witness in later January 6 investigations. Expand.