Subpoena deadline slips for Trump Jan. 6 documents as talks continue 

The deadline for Donald Trump to nutrient documents subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 prime committee has slipped amid ongoing negotiations betwixt House lawyers and the erstwhile president’s ineligible team.

In a Friday evening statement, Jan. 6 sheet seat Bennie Thompson and vice seat Liz Cheney indicated that they’ve received “correspondence from the erstwhile President and his counsel” and had agreed to widen a papers deadline that had primitively been acceptable for Friday morning.

“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 lawmakers said.

Trump’s lawyers and a spokesperson person declined aggregate requests for an update connected the presumption of negotiations with the prime committee.

Securing Trump’s grounds remains a longshot for the committee, which is acceptable to dissolve astatine the extremity of the year. Trump’s attorneys astatine the Dhillon Law Group person already raised concerns astir the procedures the committee used, and immoderate ineligible situation would apt doom the panel’s effort.

But Trump has declined to regularisation retired appearing for an interview. The sheet has spent the past twelvemonth gathering a lawsuit that Trump repeatedly violated the instrumentality successful his wide-ranging effort to derail the transportation of powerfulness to Joe Biden and prehend a 2nd word helium didn’t win.

The sheet wants to question Trump astir his efforts to sow distrust successful the predetermination results, his effort to mobilize the authorities successful enactment of his claims, his effort to unit his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn the predetermination connected Jan. 6 and his lengthy soundlessness portion a convulsive mob attacked constabulary and ransacked the Capitol.