BREAKING: A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection subpoenas six more Trump associates, including campaign aides who were involved in the former president's efforts to challenge Joe Biden's election victory.
The House voted last month to hold longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt after he refused to comply with his subpoena from the panel investigating the origins of the violent attack. Trump himself is fighting the probe in court.
The rioters who violently pushed back police to break into the Capitol and interrupt the electoral count repeated Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud, and the committee says the six people subpoenaed helped amplify the misinformation in the days ahead of the attack. Trump’s claims came as election officials and courts across the country verified Biden’s win, and as his own attorney general said there was no evidence of significant fraud.
Trump’s own opposition has prompted some of his advisors, including Bannon, to say they can’t speak publicly about their roles. The former president is claiming he can assert executive privilege in a lawsuit aiming to block the government from releasing a tranche of internal White House documents, including call logs, drafts of remarks, speeches and handwritten staff notes from before and during the insurrection.
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