U.S (Washington Insider Magazine) -This week, the House Select Committee on Intelligence issued additional subpoenas to 10 Trump administration officials, including former senior adviser Stephen Miller and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, broadening their investigation into former United States President Donald Trump’s involvement in the circumstances surrounding the January attack on the nation’s Capital.
According to reports the House Select Committee probing the fatal Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol has been preparing to issue subpoenas to top Trump lieutenants implicated in attempting to manipulate the 2020 election outcomes from the Willard hotel in Washington.
The subpoenas for records and testimony are directed at White House actions and come a day after the select committee subpoenaed other key Trump lieutenants who worked from the Willard hotel in Washington to discredit the results of the 2020 election.
On Tuesday, Nov. 9, House investigators targeted 10 top Trump White House officials, including Miller, McEnany, former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security advisor Keith Kellogg, and the White House personnel director at the time, John McEntee.
Molly Michael, Trump’s former Oval Office operations coordinator, was also subpoenaed, as was Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff, Christopher Liddell, senior DoJ attorney Kenneth Klukowski, and top staffers Cassidy Hutchinson, Ben Williamson, and Nicholas Luna.
Mississippi Democratic congressperson Bennie Thompson, who leads the select committee, said in a statement that he issued the subpoenas to Trump officials to learn exactly what role Trump and his advisers had in halting the electoral vote count.
Thompson also stated the committee wants Trump officials to assist them in determining if anyone outside the White House participated in seeking to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Extremist Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, to prevent Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the previous November’s presidential election.
Trump contended in a court filing that the records requested by the committee were protected by presidential privilege, a legal tenet that preserves the confidentiality of some White House discussions. He sought an injunction to prevent the National Archives, the government agency in charge of his White House documents, from cooperating with the committee’s document requests.
The committee stated it requires the sought papers to comprehend Trump’s involvement in inciting the incident.
According to the select committee, Miller was subpoenaed because he pushed state legislators to send alternative slates of electors as part of an effort to re-elect Trump and spread lies about voter fraud that had been debunked by the Justice Department and others who declared 2020 the most secure election in US history.
House investigators summoned McEnany and McEntee because they were both near Trump on Jan. 6 as he watched the attack develop on TV and might offer light on Trump’s conduct during the insurgency, according to the committee.
Kellogg, a prominent adviser to Pence, was subpoenaed in part because he was allegedly a direct witness to a January 2021 conversation with Trump and White House attorney Pat Cipollone during which the former president ordered Pence not to declare Biden’s victory.
Other staffers have been subpoenaed in connection with acts like disseminating misinformation on Trump’s favor, pushing election authorities about unsubstantiated electoral fraud, and talks about reversing Biden’s victory.
The select committee gave all 10 Trump officials until Nov. 23 to respond to the subpoena’s document requests, with deposition dates planned through December.
The additional subpoenas were issued only hours after a federal judge dismissed Trump’s request for an injunction to prevent the National Archives from revealing information from his administration.
Trump’s legal team submitted an emergency plea late Monday seeking US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan for the injunction, which was denied.