Trump allies Flynn, Miller, Eastman, others subpoenaed by Jan 6
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[November 09, 2021]
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.
congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol
issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more
associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from
his re-election campaign.
They are William Stepien, manager of the Republican president's 2020
re-election campaign; Jason Miller, senior adviser to the campaign;
Angela McCallum, national executive assistant to 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 City
police commissioner.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives Select Committee wants those
subpoenaed to sit for depositions scheduled for between Nov. 30 and Dec.
13.
The panel has now issued 25 subpoenas and received testimony from more
than 150 witnesses. More subpoenas are expected as soon as this week.
The subpoenas announced on Monday focus on Trump associates believed to
have strategized about ways to overturn the results of the November 2020
election, including those who spent time at a "command center" at
Washington's Willard Hotel set up to steer efforts to deny Democrat Joe
Biden his victory.

Eastman in particular has been under intense scrutiny. He spoke at the
Jan. 6 rally where Trump gave a fiery speech alleging election fraud and
urging supports to march on the Capitol. Eastman also wrote a memo
outlining how, in his view, then-Vice President Mike Pence could thwart
formal congressional certification of Trump's re-election loss. Pence
ultimately declined to follow Eastman's advice.
"In the days before the January 6th attack, the former president's
closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the
election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes,"
Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Select Committee, said
in a statement.
"The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to
overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White
House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that
escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all," Thompson said.
HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS
Miller declined comment. Kerik issued a statement accusing the committee
of deciding to "publicly defame" him and demanded that it retract its
press release. The other Trump associates could not immediately be
reached for comment or did not respond.
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The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault
on the Capitol issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from
six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top
aides from his re-election campaign.

More than 670 people have been charged with taking part in the riot
at the Capitol as Congress and Pence were to certify Biden's defeat
of Trump. It was the worst attack on the seat of the U.S. government
since the War of 1812 and the only time power in the United States
has not been transferred peacefully.
Trump has filed suit to avoid turning over White House documents and
urged former aides to reject panel subpoenas, claiming the right to
withhold information because of executive privilege, a legal
principle that protects many White House communications.
Legal experts have disputed his claim that the principle applies.
The House voted last month to hold longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon
in contempt over his refusal to cooperate.
Four people died the day of the assault, and one Capitol police
officer died the next day of injuries sustained while defending
Congress. Hundreds of police were injured during the multi-hour
onslaught, and four officers have since taken their own lives.
The Select Committee was created by House Democrats against the
wishes of most Republicans. Two of its nine members -
Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger - are Republicans who
joined House Democrats in voting to impeach Trump in January on a
charge of inciting the Jan. 6 attack in a fiery speech to supporters
earlier that day.
Multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own
administration have rejected his claims that Biden won because of
election fraud.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Elizabeth
Culliford in New York and Jan Wolfe in Washington; editing by Scott
Malone, Jonathan Oatis, Lincoln Feast, Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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