WASHINGTON --
The congressional committee investigating the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol mentioned on Tuesday it had issued subpoenas to 6 individuals who promoted false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and took part in, or inspired, actions based mostly on these false claims.
The people subpoenaed included Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who suggested former U.S. President Donald Trump, and Christina Bobb, a reporter for the far-right One America Information Community who additionally labored part-time for the Trump authorized workforce, a press release from the Home of Representatives panel mentioned.
Subpoenas additionally had been despatched to Trump marketing campaign legal professional Kenneth Chesebro, Washington lobbyist and legal professional Katherine Friess, Kurt Olsen, a personal legal professional who contacted Division of Justice officers on Trump's behalf; and Phillip Kline, the previous legal professional normal of Kansas.
Not one of the six might instantly be reached for remark.
"The Choose Committee is searching for details about makes an attempt to disrupt or delay the certification of electoral votes and any efforts to corruptly change the end result of the 2020 election," Democratic Consultant Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 Choose Committee, mentioned in a press release.
"The six people we have subpoenaed in the present day all have information associated to these issues and can assist the Choose Committee higher perceive all the varied methods employed to doubtlessly have an effect on the end result of the election," Thompson mentioned.
The committee is attempting to ascertain the actions of Trump and his interior circle in the course of the assault on the Capitol by 1000's of his supporters. They attacked police, vandalized the Capitol and despatched members of Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence operating for his or her lives as they gathered to certify Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory over Trump.
The Choose Committee has to this point interviewed greater than 560 witnesses, issued greater than 80 subpoenas and obtained greater than 50,000 pages of data because it probes the causes of the assault on the Capitol, and the position performed by Trump, who continues to push false claims that his election defeat by Biden was the results of fraud.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Jan Wolfe; Modifying by Tim Ahmann, Bernard Orr and Jonathan Oatis)