Subpoena

All nine members of the committee voted to subpoena the former president to testify before them. Presidential subpoenas are complicated but not ...

[Trump has dodged a subpoena before](https://www.npr.org/live-updates/house-jan-6-hearing-10-13-2022#trump-has-dodged-a-subpoena-before-in-an-unrelated-case) in an unrelated case earlier this year. "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion," she said. [weekly Politics Newsletter](http://n.pr/politicsnewsletter) or listen to the NPR Politics Podcast on [Apple](https://n.pr/3Mq3rNc) or [Spotify](https://n.pr/3CrSypC).

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.

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."

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump during a hearing.

6, 2021, riot, when a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers to flee their chambers for safety. Trump railed against the Jan. Most of those witnesses have complied with the committee's requests. 6 probe in a flurry of angry statements and posts on his social media platform Truth Social later Thursday. The House select committee investigating the Jan. - The House select 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.

A panel of US lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, ...

VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson has more from the hearing. Capitol voted Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, legally compelling him to testify about his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 6, 2021, 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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.