House Inquiry Into Jan. 6 Issues 10 New Subpoenas

Politics|House Inquiry Into Jan. 6 Issues 10 New Subpoenas

WASHINGTON — The House committee scrutinizing the Jan. 6 Capitol onslaught issued 10 caller subpoenas connected Tuesday for erstwhile apical officials successful President Donald J. Trump’s White House, including his elder advisor Stephen Miller, arsenic its probe continues to expand.

The latest batch of demands for grounds and documents focuses connected White House officials with cognition of Mr. Trump’s actions successful the buildup to and during the unit that engulfed the Capitol, erstwhile a mob of his supporters stormed the gathering connected Jan. 6, and aides who helped the erstwhile president property the prevarication that the 2020 predetermination had been stolen from him.

“The prime committee wants to larn each item of what went connected successful the White House connected Jan. 6 and successful the days beforehand,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the committee’s chairman, said successful a statement. “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.”

The caller demands are portion of a ramping-up of the enactment of the committee, which successful conscionable the past 2 days has astir doubled the fig of subpoenas it has issued, bringing the full to 35.

Among the others receiving subpoenas was Nicholas Luna, an adjunct to Mr. Trump who acted arsenic 1 of his “body men” and was successful the Oval Office arsenic the president pressured Vice President Mike Pence to garbage to certify the election. Ben Williamson, an advisor to the erstwhile White House main of unit Mark Meadows who the sheet said had tried unsuccessfully during the riot to get Mr. Trump to contented a connection condemning the violence, was besides summoned, arsenic Mr. Meadows was past month.

The committee besides issued a subpoena for Molly Michael, a White House adjunct who emailed Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen “talking points” alleging a “cover-up” regarding voting machines successful Michigan.

And the sheet demanded documents and grounds from Johnny McEntee, a erstwhile White House unit director, who was reportedly successful the Oval Office during a gathering with Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence erstwhile Rudolph W. Giuliani, the erstwhile president’s idiosyncratic lawyer, suggested seizing Dominion voting machines due to the fact that of predetermination fraud.

Keith Kellogg, Mr. Pence’s nationalist information adviser, and Kayleigh McEnany, the erstwhile White House property caput who was reportedly with Mr. Trump astatine times arsenic helium watched the attack, besides received subpoenas.

The orders came a time aft the committee issued subpoenas for six Trump allies, including the erstwhile nationalist information advisor Michael T. Flynn, and arsenic it tightened its absorption to an orchestrated effort by Mr. Trump and his associates to overturn the 2020 election.