The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob issued a subpoena Friday for testimony and documents from former president Donald Trump, requesting that he testify under oath on or about Nov. 14.
The subpoena was widely expected after the committee voted unanimously Oct. 13 in its final hearing that provided new evidence and testimony to bolster the bipartisan panel’s argument that the deadly violence on Jan. 6 was the direct and predictable result of Trump’s choices in the weeks after he lost his bid for reelection.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement, part of a 10-page letter to Trump.
Cheney and Thompson outlined 19 document requests, in which they are seeking Trump’s communications with Roger Stone, former Secret Service agent Anthony Ornato, attorneys John Eastman and Sidney Powell, and more than a dozen other people and members of extremists groups.
The committee is requesting the “information sufficient to identify every telephone or other communications device” that Trump used from Nov. 3, 2020, to Jan. 20, 2021. They also specifically requested communications conducted on Signal, an encrypted phone messaging application, on any personal devices, or communication conducted by any other means.
This is a developing news story and will be updated.