By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Dartunorro Clark -
NBC News
The House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill issued a new batch of subpoenas on Monday to former advisers to the Trump Administration and the reelection campaign who supported the then-president's effort to overturn the 2020 election. .
Six individuals were cited:
Bill Stepien,
director of Trump's 2020 re-election campaign
Jason Miller,
a senior campaign advisor
Angela McCallum,
a former assistant
John Eastman,
a conservative attorney who allegedly advised Trump and other members of the Administration
Michael Flynn,
Trump's former National Security Advisor
Bernard Kerik,
a consultant who, according to the committee, used hotels in Washington DC to serve as "command centers" for the campaign's electoral strategy.
The Committee is demanding that the records and testimonies be delivered to it between late November and mid-December.
Former Homeland Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks at a press conference at the White House in 2017.Carolyn Kaster / AP
Lawmakers claimed that Trump campaign aides and advisers used a "war room"
as a command center to devise efforts to stop the counting of electoral votes days before the violent assault on the Capitol.
"In the days leading up to the January 6 attack, the former president's allies and closest advisers launched a campaign of disinformation about the elections and planned ways to stop the Electoral College's counting of votes," the Democratic representative said in a statement. Bennie Thompson, chair of the committee.
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"The select committee needs to know all the details about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had to the rallies that turned into riots, and who paid for it all."
The committee - made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans - has already summoned dozens of former Trump aides and allies, including organizers of the Jan.6 and earlier rallies.
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Trump was quick to file a lawsuit last month to try to block any release of documents requested by the committee to the National Archives.
The former president has also pressured his former aides and allies not to comply with the commission's requests.
In addition, he
has tried to invoke executive privilege to prevent the committee from obtaining his records from the White House.
The Biden government, however, has denied the requests.
The committee alleged Monday that Trump's re-election campaign urged state and Republican Party workers to pressure state election officials to "delay or deny the certification of electoral votes."
The panel said there is a recording of a voicemail from McCallum in which she asked an unknown Michigan state representative if the Trump campaign could "count on" the representative to appoint alternate voters.
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Eastman, according to the committee, briefed nearly 300 state legislators on the unfounded claims of voter fraud and allegedly told the group to "make sure we're not putting a guy who wasn't elected in the White House."
Donald Trump harangues his supporters on January 6, 2021, moments before they launched to take over the Capitol.Evan Vucci / AP
After the election, Miller also coordinated with Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the president's former attorney, to discuss strategies to overturn the election results and pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the Electoral College tally, according to the panel. .
Flynn was also involved in discussions with the campaign and the Administration, attending a December 2020 meeting in the Oval Office in which officials discussed the seizure of voting machines and the declaration of a national emergency, among other options, according to the committee.
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Thompson, in his statement, urged witnesses to cooperate with the committee, which has reprimanded those who refused to comply with its subpoenas.
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The House voted last month to hold former White House strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and asked the Justice Department to press criminal charges.
Jeffrey Clark, a former acting chief of the Justice Department's civil division who played a key role in Trump's effort to nullify the election, frustrated committee members last week when he arrived on Capitol Hill and refused to testify, citing the Trump's lawsuit.
