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The House Select Committee to investigate the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, released a report on Friday outlining a new deadline. Former President Donald Trump Documents need to be changed It was subpoenaed.
“We have informed the former president’s lawyer that he should begin producing records no later than next week, and that he is under subpoena for testimony beginning November 14,” the committee said in a statement.
The group subpoenaed Trump last month Searches a wide range of documents By 10 a.m. Friday and Trump is scheduled to sit for an interview under oath on Nov. 14 and “continue on subsequent days as necessary.”
The committee also said it had “received correspondence from the former president and his lawyer regarding the Select Committee’s subpoena,” but did not provide additional information.
CNN has reached out to Trump and his lawyers for comment.
Trump’s lawyers have until Oct. 26 to accept service of the subpoena from the group, according to sources familiar with the matter. Trump has criticized the group, but has not said whether he would comply with the subpoena.
On the day the subpoena was announced, Trump’s lawyer, David Warrington, said in a statement that the group publicly issued the subpoena “in violation of regulations and due process” and that his legal team would “respond appropriately to this unprecedented action.”
Trump lawyers are coordinating with other members of the former president’s legal team to deal with the group’s subpoena requests and are deciding how to proceed, a source familiar with the matter said.
Although operating as two separate groups, the attorneys focused on addressing the group’s subpoena are consulting with attorneys representing Trump in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 case. things.
Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, the committee’s vice chairwoman, previously said the committee was “in consultation” with Trump’s lawyers about testifying at the hearing. But it is unclear whether those discussions will force him to step down.
The committee’s letter accompanying the subpoena summarized what the committee has provided in a series of hearings to demonstrate why it believes Trump “personally planned and oversaw” efforts to rig the 2020 election.
In the subpoena, the committee demanded that Trump turn over any communications sent or received between Election Day on November 3, 2020 and Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. A broad plan to beat the 2020 elections.
asked Trump to turn over all records of phone calls, text messages or communications with any members of Congress from December 18, 2020, to January 6, 2021; Specifically all his communications on January 6 and any communications or attempts to contact other witnesses at the panel’s hearing.
The broad document request asks for all documents and communications related to or “in any way” referring to members of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys or other extremist groups from September 1, 2020 to the present. The committee’s document request consists of 19 different categories.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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