Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump - CNBC

Former President Donald Trump was issued a subpoena Friday by the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot astatine the U.S. Capitol.

The committee, which voted unanimously connected the move, is demanding Trump's grounds nether oath adjacent period arsenic good arsenic records applicable to the probe into the attack, which the sheet noted came aft weeks of him denying losing the 2020 predetermination to President Joe Biden.

 The sheet had said connected Oct. 13 that it would subpoena Trump, whose supporters stormed the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, arsenic a associated league of Congress met to corroborate Biden's victory.

"We admit that a subpoena to a erstwhile President is simply a important and historical action," the panel's leaders wrote Trump successful a missive Friday.

"We bash not instrumentality this enactment lightly."

The records being sought by the House committee pursuant to the subpoena are owed Nov. 4. The subpoena besides says that Trump would beryllium deposed connected oregon astir Nov. 14, aft the midterm elections.

It is not wide whether Trump volition comply with the subpoena.

Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming, successful their missive to Trump, cited what they called his cardinal relation successful a deliberate, "multi-part effort" to reverse his nonaccomplishment successful the 2020 statesmanlike election, and to stay successful power.

The missive accused Trump of "maliciously" making mendacious allegations of predetermination fraud, "attempting to corrupt the Department of Justice" to endorse those claim, pressuring authorities officials to alteration predetermination results, and overseeing efforts to taxable mendacious electors to the Electoral College.

The missive besides noted that helium had pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to garbage to number Electoral College votes during the associated league of Congress.

 "As demonstrated successful our hearings, we person assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your erstwhile appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and to obstruct the peaceful modulation of power," the missive said.

"You were astatine the halfway of the archetypal and lone effort by immoderate U.S. President to overturn an predetermination and obstruct the peaceful modulation of power, yet culminating successful a bloody onslaught connected our ain Capitol and connected the Congress itself," the missive said.

The committee's leaders pointed to the information that 7 presidents had testified to Congress aft leaving office, astir precocious Gerald Ford, a Republican.

And astatine slightest 2 presidents, Ford and Abraham Lincoln, testified earlier Congress portion serving successful the White House, the missive noted.

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