Jan. 6 committee subpoenas leaders of 'America First' movement
By Mychael Schnell - 01/19/22 07:03 PM EST
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol on Wednesday subpoenaed the two leaders of the alt-right “America First” or "Groyper" movement.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement the panel believes Nicholas Fuentes and Patrick Casey have information relevant to the planning, coordination and funding of events that were held in the lead-up to the January attack.
“The Select Committee is seeking facts about the planning, coordination, and funding of events that preceded the violent attack on our democracy. We believe the individuals we have subpoenaed today have information relevant to those questions, and we expect them to cooperate with the committee,” Thompson said in a statement.
“The committee will continue to push forward to get answers for the American people and help ensure nothing like January 6th ever happens again,” he added.
Fuentes and Casey are both prominent far-right figures who in the past have touted false claims regarding the 2020 presidential election and called for the destruction of the GOP once it failed to overturn the vote tally. The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Fuentes as a white supremacist leader, and the FBI has referred to Casey as a white supremacist.
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