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The House commission investigating the deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan.6 announced Monday that it has issued six additional subpoenas to some of Trump's top campaign partners, as it continues to search for testimony. and key witness documents in the extensive investigation.
With this round of subpoenas, the commission targets key members of Trump's reelection campaign who, according to the panel, were involved in promoting the lie that the elections were stolen.
The six citations are for:
Trump 2020 campaign manager William Stepien
Former Senior Campaign Advisor Jason Miller
John Eastman, a lawyer who helped make Trump's argument that the election was stolen
Michael Flynn, who was involved in a meeting about how the Trump campaign wanted to promote the lie that the election had been stolen.
Angela McCallum, Nationwide Executive Assistant in Trump's 2020 Re-election Campaign
Bernard Kerik, who participated in a meeting at the Willard Hotel focused on how to overturn the election results
The six people have been asked to provide documents to the commission by November 23, and their statements are scheduled for the last week of November and through mid-December.
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"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 vote counting," said the president of the commission, Rep. Bennie Thompson, in a statement.
"The Select Commission needs to know all the details about their efforts to nullify 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."
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Thompson added: "The Select Commission hopes that all witnesses will cooperate with our investigation as we work to obtain answers for the American people, recommend changes to our laws that strengthen our democracy and help ensure that nothing like January 6 happens again." .
This is the first round of subpoenas issued by the commission since the House of Representatives asked the Justice Department to file criminal contempt charges against Trump ally Steve Bannon for defying congressional order to appear and testify.
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The Justice Department has not yet indicated whether prosecutors will pursue an indictment against Bannon.
On Friday, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark sidestepped the commission's questions, appearing before the panel under a subpoena but declining to answer questions posed to him, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The commission wrote in its subpoena letter to Stepien that his role as Trump's former campaign manager makes him a key player in understanding Trump's campaign efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and promote the "Stop the Steal" narrative. ("Stop the robbery") echoed by protesters who stormed the Capitol on January 6.
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The commission cites an anonymous interview from a witness with personal knowledge to help support its claim that Stepien was deeply involved in the messages behind the "Stop the Steal" campaign effort. He also cites an internal campaign memo from shortly after the election that demonstrated that the Trump campaign knew that the claims about the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems were unfounded.
Kerik previously confirmed to CNN that he paid for rooms and suites in Washington hotels that "served as election-related command centers," according to the commission.
He also worked with former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani "to investigate allegations of voter fraud and promote unfounded litigation and 'Stop the Steal' efforts," the commission said Monday.
In February, the political action committee (PAC) Make America Great, the successor organization to Trump's presidential campaign, made two large outlays for "referred travel expenses," according to a filing with the Federal Commission. of Elections.
The PAC paid Kerik's and Giuliani's companies US $ 66,251.54 and 76,566.95, respectively.
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CNN previously reported that Eastman wrote an email blaming Pence for provoking the violence in the United States Capitol on January 6 with his refusal to block the certification of the 2020 election results by Congress, while The riots broke out and the then vice president was hiding from the mob that had stormed into the building.
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the commission, previously told CNN that the panel is interested in learning more about Eastman's role in trying to overturn the election results.
"We need to determine to what extent there was an organized effort against Vice President Pence and we believe that, you know, the names of some of the actors have been released, including John Eastman, who put it out in a memo," Raskin said. last month.
An eye on Trump's former national security adviser
In McCallum's case, the commission writes that her investigation and public accounts have led the panel to believe that her role as the national executive assistant to Trump's re-election campaign made her aware of and involved in the campaign's efforts to spreading false information about electoral fraud in presidential elections.
The commission cites a "publicly available" voicemail recording in its possession that McCallum left for a Michigan state representative whose name is not known, asking whether the Trump campaign could "count on" that representative, at the same time. which also told the legislator that they had the ability to name an alternate list of voters, although the Michigan state legislature never took that step.
The commission is interested in Flynn, who was Trump's National Security adviser and has remained a staunch ally of the former president since he was fired in 2017, because he allegedly attended a meeting in the Oval Office in December 2020 "during which participants discussed the seizure of voting machines, the declaration of a national emergency, the invocation of certain national security emergency powers, and continuing to spread the false message that the November 2020 elections had been tainted by widespread fraud. " .
CNN's Michael Warren contributed to this report.
