U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee Votes to Subpoena Trump

The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, an action that could eventually result in the former president’s ‘imprisonment’ if he does not comply.

The House select committee’s seven Democratic and two Republican members voted 9-0 in favor of issuing a “subpoena for Trump to provide documents and testimony under oath in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.”

“He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6. So we want to hear from him,” said the panel’s Democratic chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson.

The vote came after the committee spent more than two hours making its case – via statements from members, documents, and recorded testimony – that Trump planned to deny his 2020 election defeat in advance, failed to call off the thousands of supporters who stormed the Capitol, and followed through with his “false claims the election was stolen” even as close advisers told him he had lost.

Reuters /Shakirat Sadiq