Subpoena

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald J. Trump as it ...

Cheney, who has arguably been the driving force behind the committee and recently lost a bid to keep her seat in a primary against a Trump-backed challenger, closed the hearing by suggesting that the panel had evidence to make a criminal referral of Mr. Trump and key members of his security detail knew on the day of the attack that many people in the crowd that had gathered to hear him speak in Washington were carrying weapons and were possibly dangerous, the committee said. The panel presented more evidence that Mr. The panel plans to continue investigating the Secret Service’s role in Jan. Trump to ask his supporters to leave the Capitol, where Mr. Fitton, who offered the advice days before the election, indicated in a text message presented by the panel that he had discussed the idea with Mr. “Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Trump stubbornly ignored the facts, the committee said, and aggressively pressured state officials, strong-armed Justice Department leaders and sought to create fake slates of electors in states that had been won by Joseph R. Trump, enraged and embarrassed that he had lost the election and unwilling to accept that fact, sought to join the crowd he had summoned to Washington on Jan. The footage offered a glimpse of the shock and disbelief that gripped them as they urgently phoned governors and top national security officials in efforts to summon the National Guard or get Mr. The former president publicly attacked the committee, but has been telling aides privately that he favors testifying before the panel as long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions. Trump as it presented a sweeping summation of its case placing him at the center of a calculated, multipart effort to overturn the 2020 election, beginning even before Election Day.

Donald Trump, in the words of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, had a “premeditated plan to declare the election was fraudulent and stolen before Election Day”; he knew he ...

And that certainty — along with the blatant refusal of millions to accept that reality — defines the limits of what the January 6 committee can accomplish.” For all of the legal landmines in Trump’s path — breaking Georgia’s laws on election interference, a possible contempt citation if he refuses to comply with today’s subpoena — the Mar-a-Lago case remains the most damaging to Trump, especially considering that at different times, he has more or less acknowledged breaking one or more of the laws regarding federal documents. Such an argument, no doubt, will be infuriating to those who have seen in these hearings a powerful case that the former president deliberately sought to sabotage the last election and to hold power by any means necessary. It was essentially two-and-a-half hours of leadup to the final moment of the Jan. Donald Trump, in the words of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, had a “premeditated plan to declare the election was fraudulent and stolen before Election Day”; he knew he had lost and fed his base endless lies about it; he welcomed a siege of the Capitol and did nothing to stop it. The unsigned order involved a relatively narrow dispute, but the lack of any dissents suggests that the court may not give Trump the protection he will seek from the Justice Department, should it end up indicting Trump for violating one or more federal laws.

Former President Donald Trump remained noncommittal on whether or not he'll comply with the House January 6 Committee's subpoena for his testimony Friday ...

[subpoena Trump](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday after months of hearings that laid out the president’s legal culpability in the January 6 attack and in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 6 Carries Risk of Legal Quagmire](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/subpoena-of-trump-over-jan-6-carries-risk-of-legal-quagmire?sref=LfZwdw4Z) (Bloomberg) 6 hearing shows Trump knew he lost — even while claiming otherwise](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/14/trump-knew-he-lost-jan-6/) (Washington Post) [Subpoena of Trump Over Jan. 6 Committee: Lawmakers Subpoena Trump In Final Hearing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) (Forbes) [Jan. Trump “knew he had lost the election, but he made the deliberate choice to ignore the courts, to ignore the Justice Department, to ignore his campaign leadership, to ignore senior advisers, and to pursue a completely unlawful effort to overturn the election,” Rep. The House January 6 Committee must dissolve by December 31, when this congressional term expires, though lawmakers would likely want to depose Trump even sooner so they could include his testimony in the final report the committee will issue. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), in which he asserted false claims about fraud in the 2020 election and “express[ed] our anger, disappointment, and complaint” that the committee was not investigating the purported fraud. In the committee’s hearing on Thursday, lawmakers presented evidence alleging Trump and his allies’ plan to overturn the election results was premeditated and that Trump knew he had lost the election, allegedly telling then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the Supreme Court [struck down](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-trying-to-overturn-election/) a post-election challenge, “I don’t want people to know that we lost.” The committee’s evidence “has shown us that the central cause of January 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” Rep. If he doesn’t—as is likely to be the case, given his opposition to the committee’s work—it means lawmakers are overwhelmingly unlikely to hear from him, given that any legal battle over the subpoena would likely take months to resolve. “His intent was plain: ignore the rule of law and stay in power.” [expected](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/jan-6-hearing-trump#trump-subpoena-jan-6-committee) not to comply with the subpoena, the ex-president did share a Fox News [report](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-loves-the-idea-of-testifying-before-jan-6-committee-source-says-as-trump-slams-investigation) on Truth Social in which a source close to the former president said Trump “loves the idea of testifying” and if he testified, he would "talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was.” [approved](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday in a 9-0 vote during the committee’s public televised hearing.

The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a 'large volume' of ballots were delivered to the TCF ...

He knows, too, that producing page after page of “election fraud” will be just as effective as producing page after page of actual evidence: The sense of wrongdoing is all he needs, just as a sense that covering windows was wrong is good enough as a trigger. And he knows that people who work for The Washington Post will angrily print it out and scribble on it and reinforce to the reality-adjacent that his arguments are reality-defiant. The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a ‘large volume’ of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center with no chain of custody. The error was caught (thanks mostly to Antrim being reliably red and the initial count showing Trump losing), and accurate totals were announced in short order. DePerno’s efforts and can confidently conclude they are demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.” In fact, DePerno is now the subject of Here’s the relevant section of their analysis related to these votes, with the “large volume” reference highlighted. Regardless, there’s no evidence — and, in fact, no reason to think — that this in anyway affected the actual vote count. Consider his list of claims about Michigan, a swing state mostly in the sense that he barely won it in 2016 and lost it handily four years later. [response](https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=test123&_nhids=TEST) to the imminent subpoena from the House select committee investigating the [Jan. [an article from 708 days ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/michigan-election-ballot-counting.html) explaining why the windows were covered and “poll watchers” (often simply protesters) were barred from entering. What’s more, there were [plenty of allies of Trump inside](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/10/fact-check-videos-crowd-locked-out-detroit-center-lack-context/6195038002/); his complaint conflates prohibition of more supporters from entering with prohibition of all supporters. “These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow” — so mixed a metaphor that it actually causes you to stop and consider it.

In a rambling, 14-page restatement of false claims and conspiracy theories, the former president did not indicate whether he would testify before the House ...

Trump would comply but that he believed the panel had compiled a comprehensive case of the events of Jan. Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Mr. The former president has indicated privately to aides that he would be willing to testify to the House panel but would like to do so live, according to a person close to him, a prospect that would prevent video of him from being clipped or edited in a manner he dislikes. The letter he released on Friday — a conspiracy theory-filled rehash of his many grievances and false assertions — underscored the risks for the committee of giving Mr. In a 14-page missive that did not address whether he would comply with the subpoena, Mr. 6 assault with a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the panel’s work, reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud and presaged a potentially bruising battle over whether he would be compelled to testify about his role in the riot and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot moved Thursday to force a showdown with Donald Trump, voting to subpoena the former president to ...

Even if a decision comes before the end of the year, it could be appealed and ultimately got to the US Supreme Court, adding months or even years to the litigation. David Rosenberg College of Law and former attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?” And if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections next month, GOP leaders are expected to end the committee’s work, likely making any subpoena fight moot. If Trump challenges the subpoena in court, or if the committee sues to enforce it, the legal fight could take years by raising largely untested questions about immunity for presidents in and out of office. It will not result in any testimony from the former president.”

Donald Trump speaks into a microphone at the Minden Tahoe Airport. Donald Trump blasted the select committee's investigation and repeated debunked conspiracy ...

[in the latest Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ poll](https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2022/10/14/23403342/poll-suntimes-wbez-pritzker-bailey-duckworth-salvi-general-election-november-governor-senate): Gov. Prose](https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/10/fetterman-to-release-new-tv-ad-focused-on-stroke-and-family.html). [writes The Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman](https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/persistent-house-gop-advantage-democratic-open-seats). [CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck dig up](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/politics/kfile-gabe-vasquez-new-mexico-deleted-progressive-tweets/index.html) old tweets that he’s deleted that advocated more liberal positions. [WaPo’s Jon Swaine and Emma Brown report](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/10/14/sidney-powell-defending-republic-tax-filings/). [Scott Clement, Emily Guskin, Amy Wang and Sabrina Rodríguez write](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/14/hispanic-voters-democrats/). Xi has made clear that his overarching goal is to restore China to what he believes is its rightful place as a global player and a peer of the U.S. [The 30-second spot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXTehIpZdp0&t=2s) [The detailed tax filings](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23132293-redacted-fins-1) [Julia Ainsley reports](https://twitter.com/JuliaEAinsley/status/1580939035241254914) that the panel asked the Secret Service for records of communications between an agent and the Oath Keepers. 6 grand jury,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/14/marc-short-grand-jury-testify-pence-trump/) by WaPo’s Spencer Hsu, Josh Dawsey and Jackie Alemany: “In a sealed decision that could clear the way for other top Trump White House officials to answer questions before a grand jury, Chief U.S. 6 that some in the bureau were ‘sympathetic’ to the Capitol rioters,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-official-was-warned-jan-6-bureau-sympathetic-capitol-rioters-rcna52144) by NBC’s Ryan Reilly and Ken Dilanian: “‘There’s no good way to say it, so I’ll just be direct: from my first-hand and second-hand information from conversations since January 6th there is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol,’ and that it was no different than the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020, the person wrote in an email to PAUL ABBATE, who is now the No.