Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe committee subpoenas former President Trump

Former President Donald Trump was issued a subpoena Friday by the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot astatine the U.S. Capitol.

The committee, which voted unanimously connected the move, is demanding Trump's grounds nether oath and records applicable to the probe into the 2021 onslaught connected the Capitol and its causes.

Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming successful a missive to Trump cited what they called his cardinal relation successful a deliberate effort to reverse his nonaccomplishment successful the 2020 statesmanlike election, and to stay successful power.

 "As demonstrated successful our hearings, we person assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your erstwhile appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and to obstruct the peaceful modulation of power," the missive said.

"You were astatine the halfway of the archetypal and lone effort by immoderate U.S. President to overturn an predetermination and obstruct the peaceful modulation of power, yet culminating successful a bloody onslaught connected our ain Capitol and connected the Congress itself," the missive said.

The records being sought by the House committee pursuant to the subpoena are owed Nov. 4.

The subpoena besides says that Trump would beryllium deposed connected oregon astir Nov. 14, aft the midterm elections.

 The sheet connected Oct. 13 had said that it would subpoena Trump, whose supporters stormed the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021 arsenic a associated league of Congress met to corroborate the predetermination of President Joe Biden.

It is not wide whether Trump volition comply with the subpoena.

In their missive to Trump, the committee's leaders pointed to the information that 7 presidents had testified to Congress aft leaving office, astir precocious Gerald Ford, a Republican. And astatine slightest 2 presidents, Ford and Abraham Lincoln, testified earlier Congress portion serving successful the White House, the missive noted.

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