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The House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at Congress announced Friday it has formally issued subpoena to former President Donald Trump to testify before the committee on November 14. The panel detailed 19 areas of inquiry it wishes to discuss with Mr. Trump.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have
assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former
appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part
effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful
transition of power,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney
(R-Wyo.) wrote in the letter accompanying the subpoena, The Hill reported
On Thursday
the House Select Committee unanimously voted to issue a subpoena to Donald
Trump to testify before the panel.
The committee
released publicly a full, unredacted subpoena including all documents it is
seeking from the former president.
The committee
is requesting for any documents or communications related to efforts to
evaluate Vice President Mike Pence’s role in certifying the 2020 vote or “any
actions he might take” on January 6, according to The Hill. It also asks for
anything detailing discussions, including hand-written notes, about other
plots, including efforts to reach out to state lawmakers and election
officials.
Following the
unanimous vote by the panel, Mr. Trump dismissed the “committee of highly
partisan political hacks and thugs.”
He described
the work of the committee as a “charade and a Witch Hunt”.
Responding
in a 14-page statement issued Friday and dated Thursday 13th October 2022,
Trump accused the Democrats of seeking to “destroy the lives of many
hard-working American Patriots, whose records in life have been unblemished
until this point of attempted ruination.”