Subpoena

The House committee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol voted to subpoena Donald Trump, a dramatic challenge to a former president just weeks ...

In a post on his Truth Social platform just before midnight, Trump said: “I will be putting out my response to the Unselect Committee of political hacks and thugs tomorrow morning at 8:00.” The committee, in a unanimous vote on Thursday, agreed to demand documents and testimony from Trump about his role in the Jan. The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol voted to subpoena

Trump faces risk of perjury charges if he agrees to testify.

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The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters voted unanimously to ...

Trump responded to the vote with angry comments on his social media service Truth Social. The subpoena is expected within days, and would typically give Trump a date by which he should comply. He is required to answer to those millions of Americans whose votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power,” the panel’s Democratic chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, said. Federal law says that failure to comply with a congressional subpoena is a misdemeanor, punishable by one to 12 months imprisonment. He is required to answer for those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. House of Representatives committee probing the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the panel, about the interest the subpoena has generated, ...

One of the first things that most pundits will tell you about Thursday's January 6 committee broadcast – the first since August, and probably the last ...

But the vote to subpoena Trump, and the willingness to embark on the legal and political fights that will ensue, suggests that congressional Democrats may have a little fighting spirit in them yet. The January 6 committee hearings have been, altogether, a much bolder affair than the impeachment, much more cognizant of their audience - the American public - much better at communicating with them, and much more willing to state facts plainly. Some people are so determined not to come off as naive that they adopt a withering cynicism, or even a kind of learned helplessness – and unfortunately, a lot of those people work in political media, or for the Democratic party. “The January 6 panel moves to subpoena Trump, an aggressive move that will likely be futile,” was The idea of this montage was to justify the subpoena of Trump himself. But the fifth amendment wasn’t just a justification, it was also a prediction: of course, Trump isn’t going to talk either.

The US congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot is issuing a legal summons for former President Donald Trump to testify.

"Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?" "Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?" And every American is entitled to those answers."

Former President Donald Trump remained noncommittal on whether or not he'll comply with the House January 6 Committee's subpoena for his testimony Friday ...

[subpoena Trump](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday after months of hearings that laid out the president’s legal culpability in the January 6 attack and in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 6 Carries Risk of Legal Quagmire](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/subpoena-of-trump-over-jan-6-carries-risk-of-legal-quagmire?sref=LfZwdw4Z) (Bloomberg) 6 hearing shows Trump knew he lost — even while claiming otherwise](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/14/trump-knew-he-lost-jan-6/) (Washington Post) [Subpoena of Trump Over Jan. 6 Committee: Lawmakers Subpoena Trump In Final Hearing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) (Forbes) [Jan. Trump “knew he had lost the election, but he made the deliberate choice to ignore the courts, to ignore the Justice Department, to ignore his campaign leadership, to ignore senior advisers, and to pursue a completely unlawful effort to overturn the election,” Rep. The House January 6 Committee must dissolve by December 31, when this congressional term expires, though lawmakers would likely want to depose Trump even sooner so they could include his testimony in the final report the committee will issue. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), in which he asserted false claims about fraud in the 2020 election and “express[ed] our anger, disappointment, and complaint” that the committee was not investigating the purported fraud. In the committee’s hearing on Thursday, lawmakers presented evidence alleging Trump and his allies’ plan to overturn the election results was premeditated and that Trump knew he had lost the election, allegedly telling then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the Supreme Court [struck down](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-trying-to-overturn-election/) a post-election challenge, “I don’t want people to know that we lost.” The committee’s evidence “has shown us that the central cause of January 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” Rep. If he doesn’t—as is likely to be the case, given his opposition to the committee’s work—it means lawmakers are overwhelmingly unlikely to hear from him, given that any legal battle over the subpoena would likely take months to resolve. “His intent was plain: ignore the rule of law and stay in power.” [expected](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/jan-6-hearing-trump#trump-subpoena-jan-6-committee) not to comply with the subpoena, the ex-president did share a Fox News [report](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-loves-the-idea-of-testifying-before-jan-6-committee-source-says-as-trump-slams-investigation) on Truth Social in which a source close to the former president said Trump “loves the idea of testifying” and if he testified, he would "talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was.” [approved](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday in a 9-0 vote during the committee’s public televised hearing.

After putting together a case that Trump knowingly fed the public lies about election fraud and then encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol building ...

When it comes to the events leading up to the deadly siege of the Capitol, Trump has a lot to explain. “Those who planned to overturn our election and brought us to the point of violence must also be held accountable.” Bennie Thompson, Democrat from Mississippi and the committee’s chair, said that Trump “is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. In addition to being subpoenaed by Congress, Trump is also currently under under scrutiny by New York Attorney General Letitia James who is investigating his business practices; the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis who is investigating Trump’s alleged pressure campaign on election officials; and Attorney General Merrick Garland who is investigating Trump’s role in Jan. 6, moments before taking the stage to speak to the crowd at the Ellipse, telling White House security officials to stop checking the crowd for weapons with magnetometers. [legal challenges,](https://time.com/6215419/trump-legal-trouble-key-strategies/) and that is to distract and delay as long as he can. Steve Bannon, an adviser to Trump, is currently awaiting sentencing on two charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee’s subpoena, after After putting together a case that Trump knowingly fed the public lies about election fraud and then encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol building to overturn the results, Rep. But, the committee found, Trump continued to publicly trumpet false claims of election fraud, using the authority of the White House as a backdrop, even after being told by the Department of Justice and campaign officials that allegation after allegation fell apart under scrutiny. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST.’” On Friday, he replied to the committee with a 14-page-long list loaded with false claims, but did not say if he intended to comply with the committee’s subpoena. If the Democrats lose control of the House in next month’s elections, as many [predict](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/house/) they will, the Jan. Would the temptation to come back to the center ring of the circus be too much for the showman to turn down?

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, ...

The full House is not scheduled to convene until after the midterms. 6 committee is expected to wrap up this year, and Republicans are expected to dissolve it in January if they win control of the House in the Nov. Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $200,000 after being found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. He already faces civil and criminal charges in New York regarding his business activities, federal and state investigations regarding the 2020 election, and a federal criminal investigation over his handling of government documents. He is due to be sentenced on Oct. WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the Jan.

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald J. Trump as it ...

Cheney, who has arguably been the driving force behind the committee and recently lost a bid to keep her seat in a primary against a Trump-backed challenger, closed the hearing by suggesting that the panel had evidence to make a criminal referral of Mr. Trump and key members of his security detail knew on the day of the attack that many people in the crowd that had gathered to hear him speak in Washington were carrying weapons and were possibly dangerous, the committee said. The panel presented more evidence that Mr. The panel plans to continue investigating the Secret Service’s role in Jan. Trump to ask his supporters to leave the Capitol, where Mr. Fitton, who offered the advice days before the election, indicated in a text message presented by the panel that he had discussed the idea with Mr. “Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Trump stubbornly ignored the facts, the committee said, and aggressively pressured state officials, strong-armed Justice Department leaders and sought to create fake slates of electors in states that had been won by Joseph R. Trump, enraged and embarrassed that he had lost the election and unwilling to accept that fact, sought to join the crowd he had summoned to Washington on Jan. The footage offered a glimpse of the shock and disbelief that gripped them as they urgently phoned governors and top national security officials in efforts to summon the National Guard or get Mr. The former president publicly attacked the committee, but has been telling aides privately that he favors testifying before the panel as long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions. Trump as it presented a sweeping summation of its case placing him at the center of a calculated, multipart effort to overturn the 2020 election, beginning even before Election Day.

The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a 'large volume' of ballots were delivered to the TCF ...

He knows, too, that producing page after page of “election fraud” will be just as effective as producing page after page of actual evidence: The sense of wrongdoing is all he needs, just as a sense that covering windows was wrong is good enough as a trigger. And he knows that people who work for The Washington Post will angrily print it out and scribble on it and reinforce to the reality-adjacent that his arguments are reality-defiant. The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a ‘large volume’ of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center with no chain of custody. The error was caught (thanks mostly to Antrim being reliably red and the initial count showing Trump losing), and accurate totals were announced in short order. DePerno’s efforts and can confidently conclude they are demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.” In fact, DePerno is now the subject of Here’s the relevant section of their analysis related to these votes, with the “large volume” reference highlighted. Regardless, there’s no evidence — and, in fact, no reason to think — that this in anyway affected the actual vote count. Consider his list of claims about Michigan, a swing state mostly in the sense that he barely won it in 2016 and lost it handily four years later. [response](https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=test123&_nhids=TEST) to the imminent subpoena from the House select committee investigating the [Jan. [an article from 708 days ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/michigan-election-ballot-counting.html) explaining why the windows were covered and “poll watchers” (often simply protesters) were barred from entering. What’s more, there were [plenty of allies of Trump inside](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/10/fact-check-videos-crowd-locked-out-detroit-center-lack-context/6195038002/); his complaint conflates prohibition of more supporters from entering with prohibition of all supporters. “These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow” — so mixed a metaphor that it actually causes you to stop and consider it.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the panel, about the interest the subpoena has generated, ...

And those of us who aspire and attain to public office are nothing but the servants of the people. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. So his being a former president does not entitle him to skip out on the law. FADEL: Now, so much about this moment is unprecedented or feels unprecedented - the attack on the Capitol and many things that have come after. All you have to do is meet the subpoena, and then you can get out of jail. RASKIN: Well, of course, that's going to be up to him, although we've talked to more than a thousand people now, and the vast majority of people that we've contacted or subpoenaed have recognized that this is both a legal duty and also a civic opportunity. So, you know, I'm hopeful that - you know, we don't think this is just some kind of poetic exercise. RASKIN: And I just want everybody to focus for a moment, at least, on what you would do, wherever you are, if you had information about this attack. Yesterday's hearing summed up a year-and-a-half-long investigation that found former President Trump pushed the big lie that the election was stolen, even though he knew he lost, that he pressured state officials and his own vice president to overturn the results and that he summoned a violent mob to the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. And many people have told us that they felt it's their patriotic obligation to come forward, to share whatever knowledge they have with the committee as we investigate this worst mass violent domestic assault on Congress in our history. FADEL: That's committee chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi during a hearing that closed with the panel unanimously voting to subpoena the former president's testimony and documents. BENNIE THOMPSON: This is a question about accountability to the American people.

In a rambling, 14-page restatement of false claims and conspiracy theories, the former president did not indicate whether he would testify before the House ...

Trump would comply but that he believed the panel had compiled a comprehensive case of the events of Jan. Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Mr. The former president has indicated privately to aides that he would be willing to testify to the House panel but would like to do so live, according to a person close to him, a prospect that would prevent video of him from being clipped or edited in a manner he dislikes. The letter he released on Friday — a conspiracy theory-filled rehash of his many grievances and false assertions — underscored the risks for the committee of giving Mr. In a 14-page missive that did not address whether he would comply with the subpoena, Mr. 6 assault with a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the panel’s work, reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud and presaged a potentially bruising battle over whether he would be compelled to testify about his role in the riot and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Trump issued a letter to select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson in which he criticized the committee's work and reiterated previous claims of fraud in ...

Trump claimed that the committee “willfully ignored” that he allegedly recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to the Capitol in the days before Jan. 6 attack, arguing that he “did [his] job long ahead schedule” and that the “troops were ready to go.” Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for the hours-long delay in the deployment of the National Guard to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 investigation a “Charade and Witch Hunt.” Trump then urged Thompson and other committee members to examine the “massive Election Fraud” that Trump insists took place during the 2020 presidential election. Trump also defended his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot moved Thursday to force a showdown with Donald Trump, voting to subpoena the former president to ...

Even if a decision comes before the end of the year, it could be appealed and ultimately got to the US Supreme Court, adding months or even years to the litigation. David Rosenberg College of Law and former attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?” And if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections next month, GOP leaders are expected to end the committee’s work, likely making any subpoena fight moot. If Trump challenges the subpoena in court, or if the committee sues to enforce it, the legal fight could take years by raising largely untested questions about immunity for presidents in and out of office. It will not result in any testimony from the former president.”

In a letter addressed to committee chairman Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the former President doubles down on fraudulent claims that the 2020 ...

Donald Trump speaks into a microphone at the Minden Tahoe Airport. Donald Trump blasted the select committee's investigation and repeated debunked conspiracy ...

[in the latest Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ poll](https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2022/10/14/23403342/poll-suntimes-wbez-pritzker-bailey-duckworth-salvi-general-election-november-governor-senate): Gov. Prose](https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/10/fetterman-to-release-new-tv-ad-focused-on-stroke-and-family.html). [writes The Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman](https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/persistent-house-gop-advantage-democratic-open-seats). [CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck dig up](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/kfile-gabe-vasquez-new-mexico-deleted-progressive-tweets/index.html) old tweets that he’s deleted that advocated more liberal positions. [WaPo’s Jon Swaine and Emma Brown report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/10/14/sidney-powell-defending-republic-tax-filings/). [Scott Clement, Emily Guskin, Amy Wang and Sabrina Rodríguez write](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/14/hispanic-voters-democrats/). Xi has made clear that his overarching goal is to restore China to what he believes is its rightful place as a global player and a peer of the U.S. [The 30-second spot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXTehIpZdp0&t=2s) [The detailed tax filings](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23132293-redacted-fins-1) [Julia Ainsley reports](https://twitter.com/JuliaEAinsley/status/1580939035241254914) that the panel asked the Secret Service for records of communications between an agent and the Oath Keepers. 6 grand jury,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/14/marc-short-grand-jury-testify-pence-trump/) by WaPo’s Spencer Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Jackie Alemany: “In a sealed decision that could clear the way for other top Trump White House officials to answer questions before a grand jury, Chief U.S. 6 that some in the bureau were ‘sympathetic’ to the Capitol rioters,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-official-was-warned-jan-6-bureau-sympathetic-capitol-rioters-rcna52144) by NBC’s Ryan Reilly and Ken Dilanian: “‘There’s no good way to say it, so I’ll just be direct: from my first-hand and second-hand information from conversations since January 6th there is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol,’ and that it was no different than the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020, the person wrote in an email to PAUL ABBATE, who is now the No.

Former President Donald Trump was subpoenaed Thursday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

[wrote](https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99/doccuments/20210623/SMPO_2020ElectionReport.pdf) this in its section on the Antrim County situation: “The Committee closely followed Mr. [wrote in his report ](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20484973-fulton-county-state-election-board-report)that “at no time did I ever observe any conduct by Fulton County election officials that involved dishonesty, fraud, or intentional malfeasance,” though he did find sloppiness and other issues. The error was rapidly corrected, long before any results were made official, and a [Republican-led investigation](https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/michigan-gop-committee-investigation-2020-election) of the 2020 election by a Michigan state Senate committee concluded that “that ideas and speculation that the Antrim County election workers or outside entities manipulated the vote by hand or electronically are indefensible.” The words “shrunk as more votes continue to be tallied in Fulton County” [sham partisan “audit”](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/22/politics/arizona-audit-report/index.html) of the 2020 election. He wrote that an investigator reported 1,200 ballots being “‘wheeled in through the back door’ days after Election Day, when President Trump’s massive lead ‘shrunk as more votes continue to be tallied in Fulton County.’” [human error](https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/30lawens/Antrim_Fact_Check.pdf?rev=7a929e4d262e4532bbe574a3b82ddbcf) in readying its election technology. [reported](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-maricopa-18000/fact-check-no-evidence-maricopa-county-accepted-18000-ballots-after-2020-election-day-idUSL1N2XV2AI__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!jKVPtvpI1myW8XEy51YWhSX2b9gQOyEWx5IEYGPAwbY1v-AKjvYybBWz8V_w47-jYdc0SGCKQu7_57E_e5eJQQ$), this claim, which has circulated among Trump supporters on social media, is based on a misinterpretation of a document that does not actually show that Maricopa County accepted any ballots after Election Day, let alone thousands of ballots. And Trump was also wrong if he was repeating the claim that the state counted more votes in the 2020 election than it counted voters who participated in that election. Trump returned to a favorite conspiracy theory about a particular county in Michigan, another swing state he lost to Biden. [false](https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_b0703cb8-5522-4b82-be38-4bd0d666e284). Joe Biden was the legitimate winner, Trump the legitimate loser.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol unanimously voted to subpoena former President Trump for his testimony and ...

He is required to answer to those millions of Americans whose votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power." [convicted](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-verdict-jan-6-criminal-contempt-congress-trial/), and he is to be sentenced on Oct. "He is required to answer for those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. Should Trump choose to defy the subpoena, the committee would need to secure a majority vote by the full House of Representatives to refer to the Justice Department a misdemeanor charge of refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. It's likely he will challenge the select committee's subpoena. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol