A video of then-President Donald Trump speaking is displayed arsenic the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol holds a proceeding connected Oct. 13, 2022. | Pool photograph by Alex Wong
The Jan. 6 prime committee subpoenaed erstwhile president Donald Trump connected Friday, a historical — if mostly symbolic — measurement that is improbable to compel Trump’s grounds earlier the sheet dissolves astatine the extremity of the year.
The panel’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, issued the subpoena 8 days aft the sheet unanimously authorized the Mississippi Democrat to request the erstwhile president’s testimony. It’s conscionable the 2nd clip successful modern U.S. past that Congress has taken specified a step.
The committee is demanding his grounds and documents related to grounds that it says proves Trump played a “central role” successful attempting to subvert the 2020 election, triggered the convulsive mob onslaught connected the Capitol that followed and exacerbated it portion constabulary attempted to regain control.
The subpoena gives Trump until Nov. 4 to nutrient documents and sets Nov. 14 arsenic a deposition date.
“The grounds demonstrates that you knew this enactment was amerciable and unconstitutional,” Thompson and vice seat Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) wrote successful a missive accompanying the subpoena, “and besides knew that your assertions of fraud were false.”
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