Trump allies Flynn, Miller, Eastman, others subpoenaed by Jan 6 committee

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Congressional Committee investigating the January 6 fatal attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas to seek documents and testimony from six other employees of former President Donald Trump, including top Adviser from his re-election campaign.

You are William Stepien, Republican President 2020 Re-election Campaign Manager; Jason Miller, senior advisor to the campaign; Angela McCallum, National Assistant to the Management of the Campaign; John Eastman, an attorney for Trump; Michael Flynn, who was briefly Trump’s national security advisor, and Bernard Kerik, a former New York police superintendent.

The Democrat-led special committee of the House of Representatives wants those summoned to sit on the dismissals scheduled between November 30 and December 13.

The panel has now issued 25 subpoenas and received statements from more than 150 witnesses. More subpoenas are expected later this week.

The subpoenas announced on Monday focus on Trump employees believed to have developed strategies to overturn the November 2020 election results, including those who spent time in a “command center” at Washington’s Willard Hotel to investigate the Efforts to control the Democrat Joe Biden to contest his victory.

Eastman in particular is under intense scrutiny. He spoke at the January 6 rally where Trump delivered a fiery speech accusing election fraud and calling for support to march on the Capitol. Eastman also wrote a memo setting out how he believed then-Vice President Mike Pence could thwart Congressional formal confirmation of Trump’s re-election defeat. Pence ultimately refused to follow Eastman’s advice.

“A statement in the days before the attack on the 6th.

“The special committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the elections, including who they spoke to in the White House and Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all. “Said Thompson.

A mob of supporters of US President Donald Trump fight with law enforcement officials at a door they broke into when they attacked the US Capitol in Washington, USA, on January 6, 2021. REUTERS / Leah Millis / File Photo

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Hundreds of arrests

Miller declined to comment. Kerik issued a statement accusing the committee of having decided to “publicly defame” him and demanding that his press release be withdrawn. The other Trump employees were not immediately available for comment or did not respond.

More than 670 people were charged with participating in the riot in the Capitol when Congress and Pence were asked to confirm Biden’s defeat to Trump. It was the worst attack on the seat of the US government since the War of 1812 and the only time that power in the United States has not been peacefully transferred.

Trump has filed a lawsuit to avoid revealing White House documents, urging former staff members to decline subpoenas from the panel and asserting the right to withhold information based on executive privilege, a principle of law that protects many White House communications.

Legal experts dispute his claim that the principle applies.

The House of Representatives voted last month to despise longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon for refusing to collaborate.

Four people died on the day of the attack, and a Capitol police officer died the next day from injuries sustained while defending Congress. Hundreds of policemen were injured in the hour-long attack, and four officers have taken their own lives since then.

The special committee was set up by the Democrats in the House of Representatives against the will of most Republicans. Two of its nine members – MPs Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – are Republicans who voted with the Democrats in the House of Representatives to impeach Trump earlier in the day for giving a fiery speech to their supporters on the 6. January instigated.

Several courts, state election officials and members of Trump’s own administration have rejected claims that Biden won on electoral fraud.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Elizabeth Culliford in New York and Jan Wolfe in Washington; Adaptation by Scott Malone, Jonathan Oatis, Lincoln Feast, Raju Gopalakrishnan

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