Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Regent College October 22, 2016 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Former President Donald Trump has been issued Friday’s subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riots at the US Capitol.
The committee, which voted unanimously on the move, is asking for Trump’s testimony under oath next month as well as records related to the investigation into the attack, which the panel found. came weeks after he denied defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden.
The panel said on October 13 that it would subpoena Trump, whose supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a joint session of Congress convened to confirm Biden’s victory.
“We recognize that subpoenaing a former President is a historic and significant act,” the panel’s leaders wrote to Trump in a letter Friday.
“We do not take this action lightly.”
The filings being sought by the House committee under the subpoena are due on November 4. The subpoena also says that Trump will be removed from office on or about November 14, after the midterm elections. .
It is unclear whether Trump will comply with the subpoena.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Republican Vice Chairman Liz Cheney of Wyoming, in their letter to Trump, cited what they called his central role in a deliberate “multipart effort” intention to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election, and remain in power.
The letter accused Trump of “malicious” making false allegations of election fraud, “attempting to corrupt the Justice Department” to confirm those claims, and pressured state officials to change their results. election results and monitor efforts to submit the wrong electors to the Electoral College.
The letter also notes that he pressured Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count the Electoral College votes during a joint session of Congress.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have gathered a wealth of evidence, including from dozens of your appointees and former employees, that you personally coordinated and supervised multiple efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and impede a peaceful transition of power.” the letter said.
“You are at the center of any American President’s first and only attempt to overturn the election and impede the peaceful transition of power, which ultimately culminates in the attack bloodshed to our Capitol and to Congress itself,” the letter read.
Committee leaders point to the fact that seven presidents have testified before Congress after leaving office, most recently Gerald Ford, a Republican.
And at least two presidents, Ford and Abraham Lincoln, testified before Congress while serving in the White House, the letter noted.
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