Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee won't let Trump turn testimony into a 'circus,' Cheney says

The House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed erstwhile President Donald Trump Friday, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Trump volition not beryllium capable to crook his grounds into a "circus."

"The committee treats this substance with large seriousness," she told NBC's "Meet the Press" connected Sunday. "It whitethorn instrumentality aggregate days, and it volition beryllium done with a level of rigor and subject and seriousness that it deserves."

The committee voted unanimously connected the subpoena and is demanding applicable records and Trump's grounds nether oath adjacent month.

"We admit that a subpoena to a erstwhile president is simply a important and historical action," the panel's leaders wrote Trump successful a missive connected Friday. Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cheney cited what they called Trump's cardinal relation successful a deliberate, "multi-part effort" to reverse his nonaccomplishment successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.

The subpoena said that Trump would beryllium deposed connected Nov. 14, aft the midterm elections. It is not wide whether helium volition comply.

Former White House adjutant Stephen Bannon was sentenced to 4 months successful jail earlier Friday for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the aforesaid committee. He remains escaped pending appeal.

Cheney said the committee has made it wide what Trump's obligations are, and that it plans to proceed accordingly.

"This isn't going to beryllium his archetypal statement against Joe Biden and the circus and the nutrient combat that that became," she said. "This is simply a acold excessively superior acceptable of issues."