U.S. House committee subpoenas Trump over January 6 Capitol riot
United States former President Donald Trump has been issued a subpoena by the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
On Friday, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney wrote in a letter to Mr Trump and cited his central role in a bid to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” the letter said.
“You were at the centre of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on the Congress itself,” the letter added.
The records being sought by the House committee are due on November 4. The subpoena also says that Mr Trump would be deposed on November 14.
Last week, Peoples Gazette reported the unanimous decision of the committee to subpoena Mr Trump ahead of its final hearing to prove that Mr Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election were deliberate.
The committee last met publicly on July 21 and focused on Mr Trump’s activities during the Capitol siege. Though call logs for the afternoon of January 6 were empty, the panel noted that those for Trump lawyer and ally Rudy Giuliani show at least two calls between him and the former president that day.
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