Trump summoned to testify to Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot panel - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump was ordered connected Friday to attest nether oath and supply documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

The committee said it had sent a subpoena to Trump requiring documents to beryllium submitted to the sheet by Nov. 4 and for him to look for deposition grounds opening connected oregon astir Nov. 14.

Deposition grounds often refers to closed-door, videotaped questioning of a witnesser connected the record. Such grounds could beryllium made nationalist and go portion of a last study by the peculiar panel.

"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 committee wrote successful a missive to Trump connected Friday.

The committee is seeking a wide scope of documents from Trump that would item communications helium whitethorn person had implicit a play of respective months starring up to the Jan. 6 riot and beyond with lawmakers, Oath Keepers and Proud Boys members, arsenic good arsenic associates and erstwhile aides, including Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani.

Additional documents, substance messages and different communications being sought subordinate to accusation detailing imaginable question of radical to the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, communications relating to efforts to promote authorities legislatures oregon lawmakers to instrumentality actions that would person delayed Congress' certification of the statesmanlike predetermination oregon changes successful states that would person certified an alternate slate of "electors" that would enactment naming Trump arsenic the victor of the 2020 election.

Trump, who regularly refers to the sheet arsenic the "unselect committee," has accused it of waging unfair governmental attacks connected him portion refusing to analyse his charges of wide predetermination fraud.

He is not apt to cooperate with the subpoena and could simply effort to tally retired the timepiece connected a committee whose mandate volition apt extremity aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth if Republicans triumph a bulk successful the House successful November's midterm elections.

Thousands of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, aft Trump delivered a fiery code astatine a rally adjacent the White House featuring mendacious claims that his decision successful the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination by Democrat Joe Biden was the effect of fraud.

The battle saw rioters smash done solid and conflict police. Five radical including a constabulary serviceman died during oregon soon aft the riot, much than 140 constabulary officers were injured, the Capitol suffered millions of dollars successful harm and Pence, members of Congress and unit were sent moving for their lives.

The committee announcement came hours aft Steve Bannon, a erstwhile advisor to Trump, was sentenced to 4 months successful national situation for refusing to cooperate with the panel's investigation. He is free, however, pending his appeal. work much

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The committee made wide that legislature grounds by a erstwhile oregon sitting president was not unprecedented. The missive listed 7 erstwhile presidents -- astir precocious Gerald Ford -- having testified aft leaving office. "Even sitting presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford" besides appeared portion inactive successful the White House, it said.

"In short, 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," Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote Trump.

Committee members person not said however they volition proceed if Trump disregards his subpoena.

Federal instrumentality says that nonaccomplishment to comply with a legislature subpoena is simply a misdemeanor, punishable by 1 to 12 months imprisonment. If the prime committee's subpoena is ignored, the committee would ballot to notation the contented to the afloat House. The House past would ballot connected whether to marque a referral to the Department of Justice, which has the authorization to determine whether to bring charges.

The rioters were attempting to halt Congress' ceremonial certification of Biden's triumph successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.

The House Jan. 6 prime committee has held a bid of hearings making its lawsuit - via documents, unrecorded witnesser grounds and recorded grounds from interviews conducted down closed doors - that Trump was mostly liable for the deadly battle connected the Capitol.

They argued that the Republican planned successful beforehand to contradict his predetermination defeat, failed for hours to telephone disconnected the thousands of his supporters who stormed the Capitol and followed done with his mendacious claims that the predetermination was stolen adjacent arsenic adjacent advisers told him helium had lost.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Alistair Bell and Daniel Wallis

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