Former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn speaks throughout a protest of the end result of the 2020 presidential election exterior the Supreme Courtroom in December 2020. Flynn has been subpoenaed by a choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
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Former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn speaks throughout a protest of the end result of the 2020 presidential election exterior the Supreme Courtroom in December 2020. Flynn has been subpoenaed by a choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
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The Democratic-led Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol has issued a brand new spherical of subpoenas to a number of ex-Trump administration officers, together with former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer John Eastman, who wrote a memo outlining methods former Vice President Mike Pence may reject Joe Biden’s electoral rely victory.
In all, the panel issued six new subpoenas, together with calls for for data and testimony. Apart from Flynn and Eastman, subpoenas have been issued for former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, ex-campaign supervisor William “Bill” Stepien, former New York Police commissioner and Trump ally Bernard Kerik, and Trump ally Angela McCallum.
(See a list of all the committee’s witness targets here.)
“Within the days earlier than the January sixth assault, the previous President’s closest allies and advisors drove a marketing campaign of misinformation in regards to the election and deliberate methods to cease the rely of Electoral Faculty votes,” the committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., stated in a press release. “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 went onto say the panel expects all of the witnesses to cooperate with their investigation.
