The Justice Department's latest subpoena is likely to hand federal investigators bombshell information for their probe into the January 6 Capitol riot.
on Wednesday."If he thought that was his worst experience—going before the committee—he is in for a major surprise when he appears before that grand jury."
Nick Ackerman, who served as an assistant special Watergate prosecutor, called Tuesday—the day former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice—"the worst day for Donald Trump." Above, Trump speaks during the America First Agenda Summit at the Marriott Marquis hotel on July 26 in Washington, D.C.So far, Cipollone has been the highest-ranking White House official to be subpoenaed by the Justice Department.
Ackerman said that unlike the House panel, federal investigators won't let the former Trump lawyer cite executive privilege over conversations he had with Trump in his final days in office. "They allowed him to claim attorney-client privilege. None of this is going to go anywhere with the feds," Ackerman said."He is going to claim privileges with individual questions. They will take him to a court judge, who is going to order him to testify and tell him there is no privilege."
The former Watergate prosecutor said Cipollone could try to appeal those rulings, but he added that the investigation would move much swifter than the House committee's hearings have this summer.
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