With new subpoenas, Jan. 6 committee closes in on its ultimate target: Donald Trump

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With new subpoenas, Jan. 6 committee closes in on its ultimate target: Donald Trump
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the others summoned this week had better be careful: They're walking into a trap

By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
PUBLISHED JANUARY 22, 2022 8:00AM


(Salon) Lawyers, investigative reporters and congressional committees have one thing in common: They like to ask questions they already know the answer to. That's the big takeaway from the four subpoenas issued by the House committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6 of last year. On Tuesday, the committee subpoenaed former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani; former Michael Flynn lawyer and "election fraud" conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell; former Trump legal adviser and evangelical law professor Jenna Ellis; and former Trump adviser and TV commentator Boris Epshteyn. If this committee's investigation is being run like many others I've followed over the years, they already have the answers to most of the questions they plan on posing to all four of these witnesses.

I realize that everyone they just subpoenaed is a "former" of one kind or another, but that's where the committee is now as it closes in on people close to Trump who were involved in the events leading up to the assault on the Capitol last year. The committee has already subpoenaed a long list of Trump acolytes, hangers-on, former administration officials and former White House employees, including such luminaries as Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, the former White House director of communications.

That's just the tip of a rather large iceberg. The committee has issued 60 subpoenas, interviewed about 400 witnesses and obtained more than 50,000 pages of documents in its six-month investigation of the Capitol insurrection. Some of the witnesses who didn't appear voluntarily and had to be subpoenaed by the committee include:

* Ali Alexander, an organizer of the "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 5.
* Amy Kremer, founder and chair of Women for America First, involved in planning for the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse, where Trump, Giuliani and many others spoke.
* Tim Unes, listed on Parks Department paperwork for the Jan. 6 rally as "stage manager."
* Taylor Budowich, who organized radio and social media advertising for the Ellipse rally, and is now employed as Trump's primary spokesman and communications director for Trump's Save America PAC.
* Ed Martin, an organizer of the "Stop the Steal" movement and fundraiser for the Jan. 6 rally.

And here's where it gets interesting: There are more than 300 other people who appeared voluntarily and have testified to committee investigators under oath, including at least a dozen former White House employees, some of whom were questioned for as long as five or six hours. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/22/with-new-subpoenas-jan-6-committee-closes-in-on-its-ultimate-target-donald/

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1. Let's go Ali, Amy, Tim, Taylor and Ed.