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Story · November 23, 2021

Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Stone, Jones and Others as Election Claims Become Evidence

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trump World’s November 23, 2021 Hangover Edition

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Correction: Correction: The key FEC action in this matter occurred on April 8, 2021, not Nov. 23, 2021. Later references in the file did not mark a new event.

The House Jan. 6 select committee put five more names on the books on Nov. 22, 2021, issuing subpoenas to Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Taylor Budowich, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence. The committee set a Nov. 23 compliance deadline and said it wanted information tied to organizing, planning, paying for or communicating about the events around Jan. 6 and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. citeturn0search0turn0search1

Stone and Jones were among the most visible public promoters of false claims about the election result, and the committee’s move signaled that investigators were digging into the machinery around that message, not just the message itself. The subpoenas did not establish anyone’s role by themselves, but they did show that the panel believed these witnesses could help fill in the timeline and the chain of communications behind the post-election push. citeturn0search0turn0search1

The practical effect was simple: the committee was demanding documents and testimony, not slogans. By setting a deadline and naming recipients, investigators turned a political fight into a paper trail. If the people involved wanted to keep the story abstract, the committee was making it concrete. citeturn0search0turn0search1

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