The unanimous vote to issue a surprise subpoena seeking testimony from former president Donald Trump came at the end of the committee’s ninth and likely final public hearing, a session intended as a closing argument to the panel’s 14-month investigation.
The unanimous vote came at the end of the committee’s ninth and likely final public hearing, a session intended as a closing argument to the panel’s 14-month investigation.
And committee members displayed emails and other messages that showed the U.S. Secret Service was repeatedly warned of the possibility of violence before Jan. 6 — and that Trump persisted in pushing to join the mob as it besieged the U.S. Capitol later into the afternoon than was previously known.Experts said the committee faces several hurdles in attempting to force Trump to testify about those and other subjects.
Thompson told reporters after the hearing that the committee needed to gather evidence first before deciding Trump’s testimony was necessary. “I think everything we’ve shown — especially in this hearing and in some early hearings — show that he was complicit,” he said. The documents showed that the Secret Service received repeated warnings of possible violence on Jan. 6 in the weeks before thousands of Trump supporters came to Washington to protest his election loss.Some of that evidence appeared designed to bolster the committee’s star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
The committee has previously tracked how Trump spent hours that afternoon watching the violence unfold on television at the White House and refusing entreaties that he speak out and call for peace. Congressional leaders, meanwhile, reacted far differently, according to a video aired for the first time Thursday.
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