Accountability is key, yes? For those who have been complaining that the 1/6 committee isn’t doing anything, a nice present. Now eat your words. Publicly. And remember, the Committee is going public soon, with open hearings on live TV. So sad for the Doom&Gloom brigade, so glorious for the rest of us.
CNN: January 6 committee subpoenas Giuliani and 3 others
The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a subpoena Tuesday for Rudy Giuliani, a central figure in former President Donald Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election on the basis of unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.
In addition to Giuliani, the committee issued subpoenas to two other attorneys who pushed various election fraud conspiracies on Trump's behalf: Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
Former Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, who was among those working with Giuliani at the post-election Willard Hotel "command center," was also subpoenaed Tuesday.
"The four individuals we've subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chairs the committee, said in a statement Tuesday.
The attorney-client privilege does not operate to shield participants in a crime from an investigation into a crime.
Congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the Select Committee, and previously a Trump impeachment manager
House special committee demands documents and testimony from ‘war room’ team involved in effort to overturn election result
In its most aggressive move, the select committee ordered Giuliani to testify under oath about his communications with Trump and Republican members of Congress regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the election results.
Epshteyn is the former communications director for Trump’s 2016 inauguration, who worked alongside Giuliani in the Willard hotel in the days before January 6 as Trump sought desperately to grant himself a second term.
Citing a report by the Guardian about how Trump pressed his lieutenants at the Willard hotel to prevent Biden’s certification hours before the Capitol attack, Thompson said in the subpoena letter to Epshteyn that the panel wanted to ask about his discussions with Trump.
In the subpoena letter to Powell, who is already sanctioned by a federal judge for misconduct relating to her lawsuits challenging Biden’s win, Thompson said the panel wanted the evidence she used to advance disinformation about the election.
In the subpoena letter to Ellis, the select committee said it was interested in her efforts to overturn the election results and her two memos that erroneously said then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject or delay counting electoral votes for Biden on January 6.
The subpoena letter to Giuliani
List of documents to be submitted by Feb. 1; in-person testimony on Feb. 8.
So. Will they refuse the subpoenas, like Steve Bannon? Will they simply take the Fifth? Will they brag about their “patriotic” misdeeds, and try to harangue the committee with all of their Kraken Conspiracy Theories? We don’t know. None of the four has responded publicly, yet.
How will this affect their disbarment status? Well, it can’t help.
To recap the subpoena news of the week: New York State has sent subpoenas to Trump’s children and The Himself, and now we get his closest legal associates. Much more is coming.
Enjoy.