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Trump subpoenaed by House Jan. 6 panel

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October 21, 2022
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WASHINGTON — 

The House Jan. 6 select committee issued a subpoena to former President Trump, calling him the “central cause” of a coordinated effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Committee members voted unanimously at their last hearing Oct. 13 to subpoena the former president as part of its investigation into what led to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. The subpoena, which was sent to his lawyers Friday along with a letter outlining the committee’s case, orders Trump to produce documents by Nov. 4 and appear for what could be a multi-day deposition under oath by Nov. 14.

“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 states.

Over months of hearings, the committee has argued that blame for the insurrection should be placed squarely on Trump’s efforts to stay in power despite knowing he’d lost the election. In its letter, the committee accuses Trump of maliciously spreading false information declaring that the 2020 election was stolen; attempting to corrupt the Justice Department; pressuring state officials to change election results; and overseeing an effort to submit false election result certificates to the National Archives. It also accuses him of pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to illegally reject state electors, filing false information in court, and inciting violence at the Capitol and refusing to send supporters home.

“In short, you were at the center 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 states.

The committee’s letter, which was signed by its chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), instructs Trump to produce a variety of documents including messages sent by Trump or that Trump ordered to be sent Jan. 6; all communications or notes from conversations he had with members of Congress between election day and Jan. 6; and notes or memos about the presidential election, the scheme to have fake electors submit false election certificates and the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress. Some of the requests cover the period between the election and the Capitol riot, and others reach back to September 2020 before the election.

The panel repeatedly asks Trump to produce communications that occurred on the Signal messaging application, including communications about his campaign’s election lawsuits, Pence’s role on Jan. 6, about the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and communications with members of Congress about contesting certification of the election.

The letter also broadly asks for all communications or memos about messages with key outside players in the committee’s investigation, such as former Trump advisors Stephen K. Bannon, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, and with attorneys including Sidney Powell, John Eastman and Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Multiple former presidents have testified before Congress, a fact noted by the committee in its letter to Trump. But most have done so voluntarily: This is just the second time in modern U.S. history that Congress has issued a subpoena in an attempt to compel testimony from a president. In 1953, then-President Truman refused to obey a subpoena from Congress, but voluntarily testified multiple other times before leaving office.

“We recognize that a subpoena to a former President is a significant and historic action,” Thompson and Cheney wrote. “We do not take this action lightly.”

Trump has not said whether he will provide documents and testimony as required, but he is expected to challenge the subpoena. He could choose to comply, negotiate with the committee, announce he will defy the subpoena or ignore it. He could also go to court and try to stop the committee from enforcing it.

The day after the committee voted last week to issue the subpoena, Trump decried the panel’s actions in a rambling post on his social media platform, Truth Social, but did not address how he intended to respond.

Cheney said at an event at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics earlier this week that if Trump refused to comply, the committee would “take the steps we need to take” without elaborating on what those steps would be.

With just over two months left before the committee is expected to finish its work, any fighting over logistics around Trump’s possible appearance means there is a diminishing chance that the public might hear firsthand from the former president as part of the committee’s final report. The committee has had mixed success in persuading the Justice Department to charge those who have refused to testify or supply documents to the panel. Two of the four people the House has voted to hold in contempt, Bannon and Peter Navarro, a former White House trade advisor, were indicted. The Justice Department declined to charge Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and aide Dan Scavino Jr.

Bannon was sentenced Friday to four months in jail and a fine of $6,500. Navarro’s trial is scheduled for next month.

After interviewing more than 1,000 people and collecting hundreds of thousands of documents, the committee is expected to produce a fulsome report of its more-than-yearlong investigation by the end of the year. Thompson has said barring new information, the committee does not expect to hold more public hearings.

Republicans are expected to disband the committee if they take control of the House in 2023.



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