On Monday, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection issued a new batch of subpoenas to former Trump administration officials and re-election campaign aides who played key roles in then-President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, including the lawyer responsible for crafting the strategy of how the former president could undermine democracy and stay in power, NBC News reports.
The six subpoenas released Monday target: “Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser; William Stepien, Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign manager; Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser; Angela McCallum, a former campaign aide; John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who reportedly advised Trump and others in the administration, Bernard Kerik, an adviser who reportedly used Washington, D.C. hotels to serve as “command centers” for the campaign’s election strategy,” according to NBC.
House investigators claimed that Trump’s campaign aides and advisers used a “war room” as a command center to brainstorm efforts to halt the counting of electoral votes days before the violent assault on the Capitol.
“In the days before the January 6th attack, the former President’s closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes. The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement, NBC News reported.
The committee is demanding the witnesses provide records and testimony between late November and mid-December.
