US committee investigating January 6 summons Donald Trump to testify

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The bipartisan U.S. House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, capitol raid unanimously approved a motion on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump to provide clarification on the episode.

The Republican’s subpoena is one of the committee’s most emphatic measures since it was formed more than 15 months ago. The assessment of lawmakers was that ending work soon without talking to Trump, the central character of January 6, would be insufficient.

There is no expectation that the Republican will accept to appear without questioning the subpoena. One of his main allies, strategist Steve Bannon, was even convicted in July of contempt after flouting subpoenas from the committee to clarify his participation in the episode that marks the biggest recent attack on US democracy.

Congressmen who serve on the committee have repeatedly said that Trump is linked to the series of events that culminated in the invasion of the US Legislative headquarters, especially because of the questions that the former president raised about the results of the elections that raised his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden. , the White House.

“The central cause of January 6 was one man — Donald Trump —, who many others ended up following,” said Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from the state of Wyoming who, while a Trump supporter, has been one of the main voices against the impetus for the coup of the former head of the White House. “He had a premeditated plan to declare the election rigged.”

“He is the only person at the center of the story of what happened on January 6. So we want to hear from him,” said committee chairman, Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson. “He is obliged to answer to the police officers who put their lives on the line to defend our democracy.”

Although Trump’s frying process has not necessarily dehydrated the former president’s public force, the criticisms and allegations made there add to the accusations that the Republican faces in court.

In September, for example, he was indicted by the New York Attorney General’s Office for tax fraud over a decade. There are still other lawsuits running in Georgia and Manhattan.

On Thursday, Trump suffered another setback. The Supreme Court rejected the former president’s request for an independent arbitrator to examine more than 100 confidential documents that the FBI, the US federal police, removed from his Florida home in August.

The request had previously been rejected by a federal appeals court, and has now received the seal of the highest court in the US. The US Department of Justice had also asked the court’s judges not to comply with Trump’s requests.

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