House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents - CNN

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The House prime committee investigating the January 6, 2021, onslaught connected the US Capitol, released a connection Friday outlining a caller deadline for former President Donald Trump to crook implicit documents it subpoenaed.

“We person informed the erstwhile President’s counsel that helium indispensable statesman producing records nary aboriginal than adjacent week and helium remains nether subpoena for deposition grounds starting connected November 14th,” the committee said successful the statement.

The sheet subpoenaed Trump past period seeking a wide array of documents by 10 a.m. Friday and for Trump to beryllium for an interrogation nether oath opening connected November 14 and “continuing connected consequent days arsenic necessary.”

The committee besides said it “received correspondence from the erstwhile President and his counsel successful transportation with the Select Committee’s subpoena” but did not supply further information.

CNN has reached retired to Trump and his attorneys for comment.

Lawyers for Trump had accepted work of the subpoena from the committee arsenic of October 26, according to sources acquainted with the matter. Trump has criticized the committee but not said whether helium would comply with the subpoena.

On the time the subpoena was announced, Trump’s lawyer David Warrington said successful a connection the committee was “flouting norms and due and customary process” by publically releasing the subpoena and that his ineligible squad would “respond arsenic due to this unprecedented action.”

The Trump lawyers tapped to woody with the committee’s subpoena demands person been coordinating with different members of the erstwhile president’s ineligible squad portion determining however to proceed, according to a root acquainted with the matter.

Despite operating arsenic 2 abstracted teams, the lawyers who are focused connected addressing the committee’s subpoena are consulting with attorneys representing Trump successful the Justice Department’s transgression probe related to January 6, the root said, noting determination are areas of imaginable overlap betwixt the 2 abstracted ineligible matters.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the vice chairwoman of the committee, antecedently said the committee was “in discussions” with Trump’s attorneys astir testifying nether oath successful the probe. But it remains unclear whether those discussions volition pb to him sitting for a deposition.

A missive from the committee that accompanied the subpoena summarized what the sheet presented successful a bid of hearings to show wherefore it believes Trump “personally orchestrated and oversaw” the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In the subpoena, the committee demanded Trump crook implicit immoderate communications sent oregon received during from Election Day connected November 3, 2020, to Biden’s inauguration connected January 20, 2021, with much than a twelve of his adjacent allies who person emerged arsenic cardinal players successful the broader program to overturn the 2020 election.

It besides asked Trump to crook implicit each records of telephone calls, substance messages oregon communications with immoderate members of Congress from December 18, 2020, to January 6, 2021; each of his communications connected January 6 specifically, and immoderate communications oregon efforts to interaction different witnesses successful the committee’s investigation.

The wide papers petition adjacent asked for each documents and communications relating oregon referring “in immoderate way” to members of the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, oregon different extremist groups from September 1, 2020, to the present. The panel’s papers petition spans 19 antithetic categories.

This communicative has been updated with further details.