House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 10 more former Trump officials

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By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators have issued subpoenas to 10 much erstwhile officials who worked for Donald Trump astatine the extremity of his presidency.

They are portion of a committee's effort to find retired much astir what the president was doing and saying arsenic his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6 successful a bid to overturn his defeat.

The subpoenas see demands for documents and grounds from elder advisor Stephen Miller and Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

They bring the House sheet tasked with investigating the insurrection adjacent person wrong Trump’s interior ellipse — and to Trump himself.

The different witnesses subpoenaed by the committee Tuesday are Nicholas Luna, Molly Michael, Benjamin Williamson, Christopher Liddell, John McEntee, Keith Kellogg, Cassidy Hutchinson, and Kenneth Klukowski.

Luna served arsenic Trump’s idiosyncratic assistant. Michael served arsenic Special Assistant to the President and Oval Office Operations Coordinator. Williamson served arsenic Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Liddell is simply a erstwhile White House Deputy Chief of Staff. McEntee is simply a erstwhile White House Personnel Director. Kellogg served arsenic Vice President Pence’s National Security Advisor. Hutchinson served arsenic Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Klukowski is simply a erstwhile Senior Counsel to Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.

These summonses travel a time aft the committee subpoenaed six different associates of Trump who were progressive successful his efforts to overturn the results of the election.

The president of the committee, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, issued the pursuing connection erstwhile announcing the caller subpoenas:

“The Select Committee wants to larn each item of what went connected successful the White House connected January 6th and successful the days beforehand. We request to cognize precisely what relation the erstwhile President and his aides played successful efforts to halt the counting of the electoral votes and if they were successful interaction with anyone extracurricular the White House attempting to overturn the result of the election. We judge the witnesses subpoenaed contiguous person applicable accusation and we expect them to comply afloat with the Select Committee’s probe arsenic we enactment to get answers for the American people, marque recommendations connected changes to the instrumentality to support our democracy, and assistance guarantee that thing similar January 6th ever happens again.”