The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol summons Trump to testify and requires him to hand over documents

The United States House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021, assault on Capitol Hill has issued a subpoena to testify against former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in a plot to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election. 2020. The body has ordered former President Trump to declare “one or more days” from November 14, at the same time that it has urged him to deliver, before November 4, all kinds of documentation that can clarify what happened that day, according to the CNN television network. Although it is still not clear whether Trump will finally go to testify, or not, the summons does serve as a firm signal from the Committee to show that it is interested in collecting Trump’s direct testimony about the attack on Capitol Hill. “We have gathered overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a var parties to annul the 2020 presidential election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” the committee said in its letter to the former president. The committee’s vice chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, has noted on more than one occasion that it is ” key” getting the former president to testify under oath. “We are obliged to seek answers directly from the man who set all this in motion,” he has pointed out on occasion. This summons occurs on the same day that the United States Justice has sentenced four months in prison and 6,500 dollars ( 6,600 euros) fine for contempt of Trump’s ideological adviser, Steve Bannon. Therefore, in the event that the former White House tenant decides to testify, he could suffer the same fate as Bannon, who in his refusal to testify the The Prosecutor’s Office saw an attempt to “exacerbate” the spirit of aggression against the rule of law that the insurrection represented.