House special committee demands documents and testimony from legal team involved in effort to overturn election result
The US congressional committee investigating the deadly January 6 Capitol attack has issued a blitz of subpoenas to some of Donald Trump’s top lawyers – including Rudy Giuliani – as the panel continues to gather information on the former president’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The House select committee subpoenaed four of Trump’s legal team on Tuesday: the former president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associate Boris Epshteyn, as well as Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, who all worked to defend Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims as he attempted to undermine the election result.
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, said in a statement that the panel issued the subpoenas to the four Trump lawyers because they were “in direct contact with the former president about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes”.
The move by the select committee amounts to another dramatic escalation in the 6 January investigation as the orders compel Trump’s lawyers to produce documents and testimony despite claims of attorney-client privilege, suggesting the panel believes the lawyers may have acted unlawfully.
The House select committee subpoenaed four of Trump’s legal team on Tuesday: the former president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associate Boris Epshteyn, as well as Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, who all worked to defend Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims as he attempted to undermine the election result.
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, said in a statement that the panel issued the subpoenas to the four Trump lawyers because they were “in direct contact with the former president about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes”.
The move by the select committee amounts to another dramatic escalation in the 6 January investigation as the orders compel Trump’s lawyers to produce documents and testimony despite claims of attorney-client privilege, suggesting the panel believes the lawyers may have acted unlawfully.