Trump writes blistering Jan. 6 committee response, doesn't say if he'll testify
14.10.2022 - 19:11
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Former President Trump published a letter Friday ripping the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 for failing to investigate what he considers basic questions surrounding the riot. The committee issued a subpoena for testimony from Trump at its business meeting Thursday.
The letter, dated Thursday, opened with Trump's unproven claims that the 2020 election was "stolen" before directly addressing the Jan. 6 Committee and questioning its purpose. At no point in his memo did Trump clarify if he would be honoring the subpoena or ignoring it.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., makes remarks during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) "The Unselect Committee has willfully ignored the fact that days before January 6, 2021, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout Washington, D.C. on January 6th because I knew, just based on instinct and what I was hearing, that the crowd coming to listen to my speech, and various others, would be a very big one, far bigger than anyone thought possible," Trump wrote.
Read the Trump letter: Trump's arguments against the continued efforts of the Jan. 6th Committee hit similar points as wider criticism against the investigation by conservative groups. House Republicans have finalized a report outlining the intelligence and security failures that occurred during the Jan.
6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. An image of former President Trump is displayed during a hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on
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