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One of the first things that most pundits will tell you about Thursday's January 6 committee broadcast – the first since August, and probably the last ...

But the vote to subpoena Trump, and the willingness to embark on the legal and political fights that will ensue, suggests that congressional Democrats may have a little fighting spirit in them yet. The January 6 committee hearings have been, altogether, a much bolder affair than the impeachment, much more cognizant of their audience - the American public - much better at communicating with them, and much more willing to state facts plainly. Some people are so determined not to come off as naive that they adopt a withering cynicism, or even a kind of learned helplessness – and unfortunately, a lot of those people work in political media, or for the Democratic party. “The January 6 panel moves to subpoena Trump, an aggressive move that will likely be futile,” was The idea of this montage was to justify the subpoena of Trump himself. But the fifth amendment wasn’t just a justification, it was also a prediction: of course, Trump isn’t going to talk either.

Donald Trump speaks into a microphone at the Minden Tahoe Airport. Far from fading into irrelevance, Donald Trump is now positioned to ...

The paradox of the Jan. Here is the great paradox of the Jan. But it is worth remembering that it is a description that applies to most consequential presidents. 6 and initially shrugged his shoulders at the outbreak of violence at the Capitol. It made irrefutably clear how purposeful his effort was to sow doubt about the election, to try to enlist the Justice Department and other arms of the government to pursue his fraudulent claims of fraud, and illuminated how he encouraged mayhem on Jan. 6 panel accomplished was to assemble a vast array of evidence for the second interpretation. Contempt is the natural response to these outrages. This is largely on the strength of what looks to be the most consequential ex-presidency in American history. Yet the Jan. How many American presidents in 240 years have helped push the country to a place where its very governability was called into question? The usual journalistic crutch when assessing political legacies is “for better or worse,” but in this case it is only for worse. The whole Trump experience would live in national memory as a collective trip to Las Vegas, exhilarating and shameful in equal measure.

The last session held by the panel concludes that the former president had a 'premeditated' plan to declare himself the winner of the elections even if he ...

In addition to providing some new evidence, the session also served to some extent as a summary of the previous hearings. It highlighted statements by Trump and his aides, including his famous call in which he asked the Florida Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes,” as well as excerpts from statements taken from witnesses, emails and other documents, interspersed with statements by the members of the committee itself. “This big lie, President Trump’s effort to convince Americans that he had won the 2020 election, began before the election results even came in,” said Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat for California. Tom Fitton, leader of the conservative group Judicial Watch, went so far as to send an email to a member of Trump’s team recommending the text of the statement Trump should make to proclaim himself the winner before all the votes were counted. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly – A laughing stock all over the World?” On the contrary, Trump had “a premeditated” plan to proclaim himself the winner regardless of the result, according to evidence presented by the House committee investigating the [assault on Capitol Hill](https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2021-01-07/an-assault-against-us-democracy.html) on January 6, 2021.

The House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, held its ninth — and possible final — hearing on its investigation on ...

The committee shared evidence that Trump ignored the pleas from his advisors to make a statement to put an end to the violence. “He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6, in which McCarthy asked Trump to call off his supporters as his staff was “running for their lives.” “I vaguely remember him mentioning that he was a professor, and then essentially he turned the call over to Mr. 6 was heavily armed, and that many wouldn’t enter into the Ellipse because they would have to go through magnetometers, a fact Trump was aware of. Jim Clyburn, after being informed that members on the House floor were donning tear gas masks in anticipation of a breach. Ralph Northam of Virginia about sending reinforcements to the Capitol. The source said the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, planned to march into D.C. “When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. Communications Director Alyssa Farah recalled this comment from Trump: “I popped into the Oval just to give the president the headlines and see how he was doing. The House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on Jan. The panel also shared video clips of longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, who was previously convicted of lying to Congress, among other crimes.

With less than three months until the 117th Congress comes to a close, the House January 6 committee voted on Thursday to issue a subpoena commanding former ...

So it is our obligation to seek Donald Trump's testimony,” he said. If Republicans take control of the House (as is expected) a renewed January 6 committee is almost certainly not going to happen, which would mean the subpoena could simply disappear if the GOP majority decides not to continue fighting him in court. The 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee to testify about the bicentennial of the US Constitution in 1983, six years after he left office following his 1976 loss to Jimmy Carter.

The US congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot is issuing a legal summons for former President Donald Trump to testify.

"Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?" "Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?" And every American is entitled to those answers."

The ex-president rehashed criticisms of the panel and unfounded election fraud claims.

[President Trump](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump) on Friday issued what he characterized as his official response to the Jan. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chair of the committee, Trump rehashed a multitude of critiques he and his Republican allies have previously lodged against the panel. [said Thursday](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-eyes-finish-line-sprint)that the subpoena would be issued "as soon as we get the paperwork."

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, saying the former ...

It’s important to understand the lengths the president was willing to go to physically be at the Capitol because it was part of his strategy to disrupt Congress and to stay in power.” 6 attack was the culmination of that effort. Possession is nine-tenths of the law.” But Trump should also be made to answer in the interest of being accountable for his actions, he said. “He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. “But our duty today is to our country and our children and our Constitution. The panel revealed new footage of Roger Stone Thursday, taken from a documentary recorded before the election. Thompson said there is precedent for former presidents to be compelled to provide testimony to Congress—even if it is a “serious and extraordinary action.” During the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Congress tried and failed to make President Harry S. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly – A laughing stock all over the World?” 6,” Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said in introducing the subpoena vote. The bipartisan committee, in possibly its final hearing, has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. 6 attack on the U.S.

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, ...

The full House is not scheduled to convene until after the midterms. 6 committee is expected to wrap up this year, and Republicans are expected to dissolve it in January if they win control of the House in the Nov. Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $200,000 after being found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. He already faces civil and criminal charges in New York regarding his business activities, federal and state investigations regarding the 2020 election, and a federal criminal investigation over his handling of government documents. He is due to be sentenced on Oct. WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the Jan.

Trump used the letter, addressed to committee Chair Bennie Thompson, to rail against what he called the “unselect” committee's yearlong investigation.

6 attack on the Capitol, and select committee members are skeptical that the former president will comply with their subpoena. He has previously declined efforts to testify in congressional inquiries related to his conduct, including the 2021 impeachment inquiry about the Jan. Although he gave no answer in his Friday letter, Trump has offered small signals thus far that he is at least considering speaking to the Jan. Trump also sought to blame the attack by his own supporters on the Capitol — a group he assembled in Washington and then urged to march on Congress — on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser. He made no mention of whether he would comply with the committee’s subpoena to testify, leaving the panel’s chances of obtaining his deposition unclear. The committee has shown evidence that Trump himself knew he had lost the election and had been informed repeatedly by White House, campaign and Justice Department aides that claims to the contrary were false.

Sources tell Guardian ex-president may choose to appear before Capitol attack committee after Thursday vote to subpoena him.

Both groups have been linked to Trump aides and allies, prominently including the Republican operative Roger Stone, who was [shown](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/13/roger-stone-jan-6-hearing-video-violence-documentary) on film in Thursday’s hearing saying: “Fuck the voting, let’s get right to the violence.” [Peter Navarro](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/peter-navarro-indicted-contempt-congress) and [Steve Bannon](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/22/steve-bannon-trial-trump-contempt-congress-charges), aides to Trump, face jail time for contempt of Congress, after refusing to cooperate with the January 6 committee. Members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys far-right groups are charged with [seditious conspiracy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/proud-boys-capitol-attack-seditious-conspiracy). Taken together with the committee’s prior hearings, it left no doubt that Trump deliberately tried to steal the 2020 election and committed major federal crimes in the process.” He also cited the Russia investigation (over 2016 election interference and links between Trump and Moscow); “Impeachment Hoax #1” (his impeachment for blackmailing Ukraine for political dirt); “Impeachment Hoax #2” (for inciting the Capitol attack); “the atrocious and illegal spying on my campaign” (a If Republicans take back the House next month, as seems likely, the January 6 committee will in all probability be disbanded. These people have had their lives ruined as your committee sits back and basks in the glow.” Our constitution demands it. Our democracy demands it. You have not gone after the people that created the fraud, but rather great American patriots who questioned it, as is their constitutional right. Two anti-Trump Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, sit on the panel. [have been charged](https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1) in relation to the Capitol attack. [June](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/how-was-the-first-january-6-hearing-our-panel-weighs-in), Thompson’s committee has laid out in extraordinary detail the chaos, fear and violence of a day now [linked](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html) to nine deaths.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a campaign rally. Photograph by Justin Sullivan / Getty.

“For this reason, I cannot in good conscience give him permission to testify.” “This afternoon, Mr. The foot specialist, Dr.

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald J. Trump as it ...

Cheney, who has arguably been the driving force behind the committee and recently lost a bid to keep her seat in a primary against a Trump-backed challenger, closed the hearing by suggesting that the panel had evidence to make a criminal referral of Mr. Trump and key members of his security detail knew on the day of the attack that many people in the crowd that had gathered to hear him speak in Washington were carrying weapons and were possibly dangerous, the committee said. The panel presented more evidence that Mr. The panel plans to continue investigating the Secret Service’s role in Jan. Trump to ask his supporters to leave the Capitol, where Mr. Fitton, who offered the advice days before the election, indicated in a text message presented by the panel that he had discussed the idea with Mr. “Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Trump stubbornly ignored the facts, the committee said, and aggressively pressured state officials, strong-armed Justice Department leaders and sought to create fake slates of electors in states that had been won by Joseph R. Trump, enraged and embarrassed that he had lost the election and unwilling to accept that fact, sought to join the crowd he had summoned to Washington on Jan. The footage offered a glimpse of the shock and disbelief that gripped them as they urgently phoned governors and top national security officials in efforts to summon the National Guard or get Mr. The former president publicly attacked the committee, but has been telling aides privately that he favors testifying before the panel as long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions. Trump as it presented a sweeping summation of its case placing him at the center of a calculated, multipart effort to overturn the 2020 election, beginning even before Election Day.

In a rambling, 14-page restatement of false claims and conspiracy theories, the former president did not indicate whether he would testify before the House ...

Trump would comply but that he believed the panel had compiled a comprehensive case of the events of Jan. Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Mr. The former president has indicated privately to aides that he would be willing to testify to the House panel but would like to do so live, according to a person close to him, a prospect that would prevent video of him from being clipped or edited in a manner he dislikes. The letter he released on Friday — a conspiracy theory-filled rehash of his many grievances and false assertions — underscored the risks for the committee of giving Mr. In a 14-page missive that did not address whether he would comply with the subpoena, Mr. 6 assault with a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the panel’s work, reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud and presaged a potentially bruising battle over whether he would be compelled to testify about his role in the riot and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

In a letter addressed to committee chairman Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the former President doubles down on fraudulent claims that the 2020 ...

Feds believe Judge Cannon was wrong in creating special master and want all the documents back in prosecutors' hands. Former President Donald Trump ...

In the new filing, the Justice Department emphasized that investigators need access to the 11,000 unclassified records also found at his estate as part of its investigation. Trump asked the Supreme Court to put those records back into the process, but the high court turned that down Thursday. Trump’s attorneys have argued that the special master process was needed in order to protect his right to claim attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

Independent arbiter was tasked to inspect thousands of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in August search by FBI.

But a major hurdle was cleared last month when the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit lifted a temporary bar on the department’s ability to use the seized classified documents as part of its criminal probe. The move permitted a core aspect of the investigation to resume, greatly reducing the chances that the special master process could have a significant impact on the investigation. He was assigned last month by a judge to inspect the thousands of records taken in the 8 August search of

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked an appeals court to end a third-party review of documents seized from Donald Trump's Florida home, arguing that ...

Prosecutors have said they need to be able to access all of the seized records for their criminal investigation. Cannon gave Trump's team 21 days to review the records and determine whether he would assert any privileges over them. The Justice Department is investigating whether Trump broke the law by taking government records to his Florida estate after leaving office in January 2021. Prosecutors are also looking into whether Trump or his team obstructed justice when the FBI sent agents to search his home. District Judge Aileen Cannon exceeded her authority when she named the special master to vet the more than 11,000 seized documents. WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The U.S.

The Justice Department told an appeals court that a federal judge was wrong to intervene in its investigation into the former president's hoarding of ...

In its filing, the Justice Department said Mr. In this filing, it argued that investigators needed access to the unclassified documents as well. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had declassified all the records he took to Mar-a-Lago. In its new filing, the Justice Department asked the appeals court to reverse her order for the remaining 11,000 or so records. In particular, they noted that Judge Cannon herself had said one condition — whether the F.B.I. Dearie, a semiretired judge in the Eastern District of New York suggested by Mr. The Justice Department asked an appeals court on Friday to end a special master review of thousands of documents that the F.B.I. The three judges — including two Trump appointees — had said none of the legal factors that would justify judicial intervention were met in this situation. “The court should now reverse the order in its entirety for multiple independent reasons.” But in the August search, the F.B.I. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, the Justice Department broadly challenged the legal legitimacy of orders last month by Judge Aileen M. Trump’s Florida estate, arguing that a federal judge had been wrong to intervene in its investigation into Mr.

Former president fails to say whether he will comply with a subpoena issued by the committee investigating January 6th attack.

In fact, for such a historic event, there are very few pictures that accurately show the event, or how many people were really there. He maintained that no incumbent president had gained votes and lost a re-election bid. Mr Trump, in a 14-page letter issued to the chair of the committee Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, described the investigation as a “show trial” and a “witch hunt”.

The former president is considering granting the Capitol attack committee's demand to appear – but would such a move be wise?

The select committee has rejected testimony with conditions for virtually all witnesses, with the exception of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. The select committee could alternatively refer the former president to the justice department for contempt of Congress as it did with former aides Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, but the justice department would probably decline to prosecute on the immunity standard, the experts said. The issue for Trump with the select committee remains whether the panel would accept a demand to testify live.

In new memoir, former Israeli PM describes efforts to turn US president against Palestinian leader Abbas.

“The president pointed to the other senior officials in the Oval Office and said, ‘Maybe they needed to see this. And peace with the Palestinians is a hole-in-one through a brick wall.’ In his book, he denies any breach of secrecy and says he was only discussing results. Peace with the Saudis is a 30-foot putt. Superimposed on the map was the distance from Trump Tower to the George Washington Bridge. It showed the distance from Tel Aviv to the 1967 lines to which the Palestinians demanded we retreat. The Palestinians, Trump was told, were hostile and wanted a border as close to Tel Aviv as the George Washington Bridge is to Trump Tower. Netanyahu writes: “I could see that the video registered with Trump, at least momentarily. Netanyahu says Ron Dermer, then Israeli ambassador to the US, was “flabbergasted. The tape portrayed the Palestinian leader as two-faced, talking peace in English and praising terrorists in Arabic. ‘Is that the same guy I just met in Washington? The Guardian obtained a copy.

Readers praise the committee for doing “a masterful job” of compiling and presenting the evidence. Also: The Parkland gunman; support for Mayor Eric Adams.

I did not mean to suggest that the mayor has few accomplishments or policy goals, nor is it accurate. The death penalty reinforces the belief that bad things happen to those who deserve it. The reason he didn’t was that he just didn’t want to lose. This was obvious even in the structure of the proceedings, as members shared responsibility for different sections of the presentations. It was ugly, but the system held. Trump to the Justice Department. He knew that tally would be the final nail in his re-election coffin. 6 attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump had more than ample reason to concede that he had lost. The hearings have also made manifestly clear that in terms of character, temperament, morals and ethics Donald Trump is fundamentally unfit to ever serve again as president. The cumulative evidence paints a stark picture of Donald Trump’s role in precipitating the assault on the Capitol. Nor that the committee will subpoena Donald Trump to testify, a request that he will surely fight in court. The importance of this hearing was not so much that it revealed any startling new revelations; it did not.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with University of Chicago constitutional law professor Aziz Huq about what happens now that the House Jan.

The problem today is that the Constitution has nothing else to say on the matter. In that case, the former president would not have any legal concern with respect to producing information for a committee that no longer existed. If the Republicans gain control of the House in November, the new majority would have power both to wind up the January 6 committee and also to withdraw the subpoena against the former president. If the former president does not produce documents, does not show up and testify, what happens? He is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland is on the committee, and he told NPR this morning that Trump doesn't really have a choice.