Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena Trump to testify under oath about the Capitol riot

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Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena Trump to testify under oath about the Capitol riot (cnbc.com)

 

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot unanimously voted at its public hearing Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump about his actions surrounding the insurrection.

The move to try to force Trump to testify under oath has been under consideration for some time.

The vote marks the boldest step yet for the bipartisan panel, which has so far issued more than 100 subpoenas and interviewed more than 1,000 people over the course of its investigation.

Most of those witnesses have complied with the committee’s requests. But Trump is thought to be highly unlikely to willingly cooperate with the panel, which he repeatedly decried as a politically motivated witch hunt.

“It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump’s testimony,” committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said before the vote.

 

Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who introduced the resolution for Thompson to issue the subpoena, said it is a “key task” of the committee to compel the testimony of “January 6th’s central player.”

She noted that, of the roughly 30 witnesses who have invoked the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination during their testimony, several did so directly in response to questions about their dealings with Trump.

 

Those witnesses include Republican political operative Roger Stone, former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, former national security advisor Michael Flynn and the pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, Cheney said.

She added that some key figures have defied subpoenas. They include Steve Bannon, a former senior aide in Trump’s White House who was convicted of contempt of Congress for his refusal to testify.

Thompson clarified in his opening statement that Thursday’s presentation is technically not a hearing, but a “formal committee business meeting” so members can potentially hold a vote on further investigative action.

Just before the hearing adjourned, the nine-member panel voted unanimously to direct Thompson to issue the subpoena for Trump.

Trump railed against the Jan. 6 probe in a flurry of angry statements and posts on his social media platform Truth Social later Thursday. “The committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country,” one post read.

The committee’s ninth public hearing Thursday afternoon took a broad look at the findings from its investigation, interspersed with new clips and information.

The panel kept the spotlight on Trump as it played clips of his former staffers, who testified that they knew at the time that Trump had lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

The hearing also showed new clips of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and others calling multiple Trump administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, to urge them to take action to quell the riot as they hid from the mob that overran the Capitol.

The committee is tasked with probing the facts and causes of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, when a violent mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers to flee their chambers for safety.

Trump, who never conceded the election to Biden, falsely claims that his victory was stolen through widespread voter fraud.

 

 

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[HipKat]

The Republican response to the January 6 committee: didn’t watch any of it, don’t know what they said, but I’m sure they’re full of shit because iT wAs A pEaCeFuL pRoTeSt….. 

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56 minutes ago, HipKat said:

The Republican response to the January 6 committee: didn’t watch any of it, don’t know what they said, but I’m sure they’re full of shit because iT wAs A pEaCeFuL pRoTeSt….. 

Trump can do no wrong. Demonrats bad.

[micknaboz]

All Trump has left is to go to the well again, AND DELAY, DELAY, DELAY, and pray the R's take back the House and end these investigations and Trump will once again not be held responsible for anything.

Not this time Donnie!  

You're going down this time!

[Toofast80]

Do any of you actually think anything will come from this? If you do, you should change course so you don’t set yourself up for a huge letdown. If they prosecuted him for this, they’d have to prosecute Hiden, Harris, Pelosi, etc... for their speeches and comments requesting “war in the streets” the summer of 2020!

[HipKat]

2 hours ago, Toofast80 said:

Do any of you actually think anything will come from this? If you do, you should change course so you don’t set yourself up for a huge letdown. If they prosecuted him for this, they’d have to prosecute Hiden, Harris, Pelosi, etc... for their speeches and comments requesting “war in the streets” the summer of 2020!

First of all, if any of those other people have committed crimes then what’s stopping them from being investigated and prosecuted?

Second of all, as far as anything coming from this, like trump going to prison? That’s not gonna happen. What this is going to do is expose the truth and publish the facts of what really happened and why it happened and who is responsible for it happening. Which will set a precedence. The other thing it will do is put a much deserved black mark on Donald Trump. 

The real tragedy of this whole thing are Trump supporters, in light of all the evidence and all the testimony which has almost all come from his own people, who were there throughout the whole entire thing, still denying it.

That is the part that needs to change and what this whole thing should be having the biggest affect on. Exposing the truth and then hoping that the people who still defend him will see it and come to their senses.

problem with that though, is that Trump supporters won’t even look at it. Is

[TonyasTaters]

5 hours ago, Toofast80 said:

Do any of you actually think anything will come from this? If you do, you should change course so you don’t set yourself up for a huge letdown. If they prosecuted him for this, they’d have to prosecute Hiden, Harris, Pelosi, etc... for their speeches and comments requesting “war in the streets” the summer of 2020!

Typical low IQ response from a Jiffy Lube oil guy. Lack of intelligence is incredible.