Trump Had Not Yet Been Subpoenaed as Jan. 6 Pressure Built

Story · October 7, 2022

Trump Had Not Yet Been Subpoenaed as Jan. 6 Pressure Built

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trumpworld’s October 7 Hangover

Subpoena pressure Confidence 5/5

Correction: Correction: The Jan. 6 committee voted on Oct. 13, 2022, to authorize a subpoena for former President Donald Trump, and the subpoena was issued on Oct. 21, 2022.

On Oct. 7, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still moving toward Donald Trump, but it had not yet taken the formal step of subpoenaing him. The committee did not vote to authorize that subpoena until Oct. 13, and Trump was not served until Oct. 21. citeturn0search0turn0search1

By that point, the committee had already spent months collecting testimony, documents, and public evidence about the effort to overturn the 2020 election and the attack on the Capitol. Its public record laid out how Trump and allies tried to reverse the result, and it set up the committee’s next move: demanding Trump’s own testimony and records. citeturn0search0turn0search1

So the status on Oct. 7 was not a finished confrontation. It was a committee edging closer to one. The subpoena was coming, but it was not yet in force. citeturn0search0turn0search1

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