Jan. 6 Committee Votes To Subpoena Trump To Testify After Sharing Never-Before-Seen Footage Of Capitol Attack

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol shared motions to subpoena erstwhile President Donald Trump to attest earlier the committee during the proceeding connected Thursday, October 13. The committee voted unanimously to contented a subpoena to the erstwhile president. “He is the 1 idiosyncratic astatine the halfway of the communicative of what happened connected January 6. So successful bid to perceive from him, the committee needs to bash everything successful our powerfulness to archer the astir implicit communicative imaginable and supply recommendations to assistance guarantee thing similar January 6, ever happens again,” Committee seat Rep. Bennie Thompson said during the hearing.

Before turning it implicit to a vote, Thompson said that Trump needed to beryllium held “accountable” for the onslaught connected the Capitol and is “required to reply for his actions” to the constabulary who defended against his supporters arsenic good arsenic the Americans whose votes helium wanted to propulsion out.

Co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney pointed retired the galore radical who person gone retired of their mode not to attest astir Trump and his transportation with the January 6 attack. She spoke astir however important it was for the committee to effort to get important answers from the erstwhile president, making a subpoena necessary. “We are obligated to question answers straight from the antheral who acceptable this each successful motion, and each American is entitled to those answers, truthful we tin enactment present to support our republic,” she said earlier the committee voted unanimously.

This antecedently unseen footage shows Congressional leaders—both Republicans and Democrats—as they were taken to a unafraid determination during the January riot.

Everyone progressive was actively moving to code the violence. All of them did what President Trump refused to do. pic.twitter.com/fcF4zBLGWm

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) October 13, 2022

The proceeding was the archetypal since a summertime recess, aft the league connected July 21. The proceeding had been rescheduled from its archetypal day of September 28 owed to Hurricane Ian making landfall. The committee presented never-before-seen evidence, including footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer calling officials to petition assistance arsenic rioters attacked the Capitol. There were clips of Pelosi calling erstwhile Virginia Governor Ralph Northam requesting help, and the House Speaker and Schumer imploring Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to effort to get Trump to marque a connection telling them to leave. There were besides clips of Trump supporters receiving the president’s video connection instructing them to spell home. The committee tweeted the video footage shown.

Earlier successful the session, the committee reiterated points made during anterior hearings, including that Trump knew that helium had mislaid the predetermination and that members of his unit had pushed backmost connected him promoting predetermination lies and attempting to overturn the results. Communications obtained from Secret Service members were besides presented astatine the hearing, including that rioters were making threats against erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence.

The Committee is continuing their probe and is expected to taxable a study aboriginal this twelvemonth with their findings, astir Trump and his engagement successful the riot.  Both Republican members of the committee Reps. Adam Kinzinger  (IL) and Liz Cheney (WY) volition besides not beryllium returning to Congress successful the adjacent term. Kinzinger announced his plans to discontinue from Congress successful October 2021, and Cheney mislaid the Republican superior against Harriet Hageman.

The committee has held aggregate hearings investigating the onslaught connected the Capitol. (J Scott Applewhite/AP/Shutterstock)

Cheney has besides signaled that she would wantonness the Republican enactment if Trump became the nominee for the 2024 election. “If [Trump] is the nominee, I won’t beryllium a Republican,” she told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith at the newspaper’s festival connected Saturday, September 24. She adjacent said that she’d beryllium consenting to enactment Democrats successful their campaigns to effort to halt Trump-backed candidates from winning their races, astir notably preventing Kari Lake from winning the Wyoming gubernatorial race.

Since the past hearing, Trump’s residence astatine Mar-a-Lago was raided by FBI agents, pursuing a Justice Department investigation, which recovered that the erstwhile president had taken classified documents to his backstage residence. The DOJ revealed that FBI agents uncovered implicit 100 classified documents during the August 8 search, and its suspected that determination whitethorn inactive beryllium more, according to CNBC. 

The January 6 Committee revealed much astir Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 predetermination successful the latest hearing. (Matt York/AP/Shutterstock)

During the archetypal proceeding backmost successful June, Cheney didn’t clasp backmost successful calling retired Trump for provoking his supporters to invade the Capitol connected January 6. “President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” she said, during opening statements.

Prior to the hearing, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had teased that this proceeding whitethorn beryllium “more sweeping than immoderate of the different hearings,” during an quality connected CNN. He besides said that the proceeding would shed caller airy connected antecedently presented worldly arsenic good arsenic bring caller findings forward. “The nationalist volition surely larn things it hasn’t seen before, but it volition besides recognize accusation it already has successful a antithetic discourse by seeing however it relates to different elements of this plot,” helium said.

During the astir caller anterior proceeding successful July, outtakes of Trump’s speech pursuing the onslaught were shown, including a clip of him cutting the operation “The predetermination is over” retired of his speech. An anonymous information authoritative besides revealed that members of erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence’s information item made calls “to accidental goodbye to household members,” arsenic the mob attacked.