Alex Jones, Roger Stone and other Trump allies are subpoenaed by the House board of directors on January 6: NPR
Roger Stone, left, and Alex Jones hold a news conference before attending a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2018.
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The Democratic-led House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has issued five new subpoenas to several officials and allies of the former Trump administration, including including Roger Stone, spokesman Taylor Budowich and InfoWars founder Alex Jones.
The commission said the subpoenas focused on the planning and financing of the January 5 and January 6 protests in Washington, DC, the ensuing march and the deadly riot.
“The Selection Committee is seeking information on the protests and the ensuing march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob that attacked the Capitol and threatened our democracy.” The committee chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement. “We need to know who organized, planned, paid for, and received money in connection with those events, as well as who the organizers communicated with officials in the White House and Congress.”
Subpoenas, including requests for records and testimony, were also issued for Dustin Stockman and his fiancé, Jennifer Lawrence. The commission said both were involved in the protests.
In response to this new wave of requests for testimony and documents, the committee issued nearly three dozen subpoenas to former Trump officials, advisers and organizers of the January 6 rally.
To date, the committee has met with about 200 unnamed witnesses who have volunteered to speak, received 25,000 pages of documents and received more than 200 tips through a hotline, Democrat California Zoe Lofgren, a member of the council said.
Court fight over release of documents Trump continues
Monday’s requests come the same day the committee and the National Archives responded to former President Trump’s arguments before the appeals court to block the release of documents related to June 6. January. trumpet appeal the ruling of the district court should have sent hundreds of pages of documents to the commission earlier this month.
The lawsuit comes after President Biden relinquished executive privilege over Trump documents.
Last week, Trump’s legal team filed a summary before the U.S. Court of Appeals at the DC Circuit disputing a dispute between a former president and incumbent that highlights important concerns about executive privilege. . Another ruling in favor of the committee, Trump argued, would have a direct impact on the advice President Biden and future presidents can receive without fear of public disclosure.
But the defendants in the case, the commission and the National Archives, have denied those claims. For example, the committee’s legal team said Trump failed to demonstrate how withholding documents would harm the office of the president.
“The only harm that Mr. Trump asserts is that the release of the requested records would harm the interests of the Executive Branch,” the committee said in its filing Monday. But “that assertion of harm goes beyond public interest in a complete and timely investigation into the Capitol attack, as President Biden has identified.”
With an urgent schedule in place, the appeals court will hear the oral arguments in the case next week, on Tuesday, November 30.
