Subpoenas show Jan. 6 panel's focus on Trump's plans
By Scott Wong and Rebecca Beitsch - 11/10/21 06:01 AM EST
A flurry of subpoenas shows the Jan. 6 committee is setting its sights on how former President Trump and his loyalists concocted a plan to spread lies about voter fraud and block Congress from certifying President Biden’s victory, an effort that directly led to the violence at the Capitol.
The special committee on Monday and Tuesday issued 16 new subpoenas for ex-administration officials, top Trump campaign aides and law professor John Eastman, who crafted the now-infamous memo laying out how, in six steps, then-Vice President Mike Pence could take unilateral actions to overturn the election and declare Trump the victor.
The latest subpoenas on Tuesday included demands for testimony from former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, personnel director John McEntee and deputy chief of staff Christopher Liddell.
“The riots surrounded an insurrection and the insurrection surrounded a coup, and we are going to investigate every level of activity,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a Jan. 6 panel member, told The Hill in a telephone interview on Tuesday in which he explained the latest subpoenas.
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