WASHINGTON —
A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol revolt has issued subpoenas to 6 associates of former President Donald Trump who have been concerned in his efforts to overturn his defeat within the 2020 election, additional escalating the panel’s probe into the origins of the violent assault.
The panel’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, mentioned in an announcement Monday that the committee was demanding testimony and paperwork from former Trump marketing campaign officers and others who participated in a so-called “battle room” forward of the siege and in any other case strategized about the way to halt the certification of Biden’s victory.
Thompson mentioned the committee had issued subpoenas to Invoice Stepien, supervisor of Trump’s 2020 reelection marketing campaign; Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the marketing campaign; Angela McCallum, nationwide govt assistant to the marketing campaign; John Eastman, a lawyer who suggested the previous president; Michael Flynn, a former nationwide safety adviser to Trump who talked with Trump forward of the revolt; and Bernard Kerik, who the committee says paid for resort rooms that served as command facilities forward of Jan. 6.
“Within the days earlier than the January sixth assault, the previous President’s closest allies and advisors drove a marketing campaign of misinformation concerning the election and deliberate methods to cease the rely of Electoral School votes. The Choose Committee must know each element about their efforts to overturn the election, together with who they have been speaking to within the White Home and in Congress, what connections that they had with rallies that escalated right into a riot, and who paid for all of it,” Thompson mentioned in an announcement.
The rioters who violently pushed again police to interrupt into the Capitol and interrupted the electoral rely of Biden’s victory repeated Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud, and the committee says the six individuals subpoenaed helped amplify the misinformation within the days forward of the assault. Trump’s false claims got here as election officers and courts throughout the nation verified Biden’s win, and as his personal legal professional basic mentioned there was no proof of fraud.
The subpoenas come because the panel is working with different shut Trump advisers to achieve testimony. It has interviewed greater than 150 individuals throughout authorities, social media and legislation enforcement.
