Trump defied Jan 6 committee subpoena, panel says - Reuters.com

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump did not amusement up for deposition grounds earlier the legislature committee investigating his supporters' onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol past year, the sheet said connected Monday.

In doing truthful Trump defied a subpoena issued by the sheet successful October, Chair Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, and co-Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, said successful a associated statement.

"The information is that Donald Trump, similar respective of his closest allies, is hiding from the Select Committee’s probe and refusing to bash what much than a 1000 different witnesses person done," Thompson and Cheney said.

The sheet did not accidental what adjacent steps they mightiness prosecute against Trump. Thompson told the New York Times successful an interrogation that helium would not regularisation retired seeking contempt of Congress charges against the erstwhile president.

"That could beryllium an option. And we’ll person to hold and see,” Thomson told the Times. “The archetypal happening we’ll bash is spot however we code the lawsuit. At immoderate constituent aft that, we’ll determine the way forward.”

Trump filed a lawsuit connected Friday seeking to debar having to attest oregon supply immoderate documentation to the Jan. 6 committee.

The legislature committee has held a bid of hearings arsenic it seeks to marque its lawsuit to the nationalist that Trump provoked his supporters into storming the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, portion lawmakers met to formally state his nonaccomplishment to Democrat Joe Biden.

The subpoena ordered Trump to taxable documents to the sheet by Nov. 4 and for him to look for deposition grounds opening connected oregon astir Nov. 14.

On Nov. 4, it said it had agreed to springiness Trump an hold earlier producing the documents but the Nov. 14 deadline remained successful place.

Republicans are expected to dissolve the sheet if they triumph power of the U.S. House of Representatives successful the mid-term elections.

Reporting by Tyler Clifford and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Leslie Adler

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