House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas retired Army colonel who worked for Trump’s outside legal team
By Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob announced Thursday it had issued a subpoena to retired Army colonel Phil Waldron as it investigates the causes of the insurrection.
Waldron worked with Trump’s outside legal team and circulated and briefed members of Congress on a PowerPoint presentation that outlined various proposals to overturn the results of the 2020 election. A version of the presentation that Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over to the committee surfaced last week after the panel made some of its findings public.
The subpoena requests that Waldron appear for a deposition on Jan. 17 and provide documents to the committee by Jan. 10.
“Mr. Waldron reportedly played a role in promoting claims of election fraud and circulating potential strategies for challenging results of the 2020 election,” Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee’s chairman, said in a statement. “He was also apparently in communication with officials in the Trump White House and in Congress discussing his theories in the weeks leading up to the January 6th attack. The document he reportedly provided to Administration officials and Members of Congress is an alarming blueprint for overturning a nationwide election.”
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/january-6-waldron/2021/12/16/3141c62a-5eaa-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html
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