The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol issued its subpoena Friday that seeks testimony and documents from Donald Trump but did not further clarify what they might do to enforce it if the former president does not comply.
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The panel’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., released a letter and subpoena that requests documents from Trump by Nov. 4 and his testimony by Nov. 14. Trump is not expected to cooperate with the probe.
[The panel didn’t expect him to cooperate, either. They could have issued this subpoena in June 2021 if they wanted to do anything more than an election-eve stunt. — Ed]
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