The committee's subpoena appeals to Trump's 'love of the limelight and his instinct to avoid not looking weak,' writes ByBrianBennett. 'Would the temptation to come back to the center ring of the circus be too much for the showman to turn down?'
they will, the Jan. 6 committee will be shut down by January. That’s a short clock Trump may be tempted to run out with stall tactics and court appeals, as he has many times before.
After putting together a case that Trump knowingly fed the public lies about election fraud and then encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol building to overturn the results, Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming, said that the committee wanted to hear from the former President himself. Multiple Trump allies have refused to cooperate with the committee’s subpoenas, and in some cases have been charged with contempt. Steve Bannon, an adviser to Trump, is currently awaiting sentencing on two charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee’s subpoena, afterBut Trump, as a former President, would pose a different legal challenge. While four former Presidents testified voluntarily to Congress, no former President has ever had to be subpoenaed to do so.
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