The House of Inquiry into the Assault on Capitol Hill subpoenaed former Republican President Donald Trump on Friday to appear “on or about November 14,” just after the midterm elections.
In a letter that he made public, he also instructed him to present before November 4, four days before the election, a whole series of documents, including a report of all his communications on January 6, 2021.
“We recognize that subpoenaing a former president is an important and historic action and we do not take it lightly,” write Democrat-elect Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney, who oversee this commission.
several precedents
The panel, made up of seven elected Democrats and two Republicans, voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to summon the former president.
However, this will not be the first, as several former presidents have testified before Congress after leaving the White House, they add, criticizing Donald Trump for having “personally orchestrated and supervised” a campaign to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. .
Calendar coincidence or not, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to four months in prison for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the commission.
Source: BFM TV
