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Jan. 6 attack panel extends deadline for Trump to produce documents

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has extended the deadline for former President Donald Trump to turn over documents as part of a subpoena issued last month, while reiterating its request for a sit-down interview. The panel comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans issued a statement late Friday saying it is in communication with Trump's attorneys. Friday had been the committee's deadline for Trump to produce an extensive number of documents and communications with lawmakers. We have informed the former President's counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for deposition testimony starting on November 14th, Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in the statement. With other subpoenas, the committee's deadlines for document or depositions requests have generally been subject to negotiation, but only when there is a direct line of communication with the witness and thei

Updated On : 05 Nov 2022 | 12:24 PM IST

Donald Trump gets extension to next week to comply with Jan. 6 subpoena

''We have informed the former president's counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for deposition testimony starting on Nov. 14th''

Updated On : 05 Nov 2022 | 8:46 AM IST

US Capitol insurrection: Court upholds ruling on Kelli Ward's phone records

A federal appeals court panel has upheld a ruling requiring phone records of the Arizona Republican Party's leader to be turned over to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. The ruling issued over the weekend by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by state party Chair Kelli Ward that her First Amendment rights would be chilled if investigators were able to learn whom she spoke with while trying to challenge former President Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat. Barring a successful appeal, the House committee will get records of calls Ward made and received from just before the November 2020 election to January 31, 2021. That includes a period when Ward was pushing for Trump's election defeat to be overturned and Congress was set to certify the results in favour of Democrat Joe Biden. The ruling by appeals court judges Barry Silverman and Eric Miller said that allowing the panel to get ..

Updated On : 25 Oct 2022 | 8:33 AM IST

Delaware man who stormed Capitol with dad gets 2 years in prison

A Delaware man who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, with his Confederate flag-toting father was sentenced on Monday to two years behind bars. Hunter Seefried, 24, was convicted alongside his father of felony and misdemeanor charges by US District Judge Trevor McFadden in June. Hunter and Kevin Seefried opted for a bench trial, which is decided by a judge, rather than have their case be heard by a jury. The father and son travelled to Washington from their home in Laurel, Delaware, to hear Trump's speech at the Stop the Steal rally on January 6. They were among the first rioters to approach the building near the Senate Wing Door, according to prosecutors. After watching other rioters use a police shield and a wooden plank to break a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a large shard of glass in one of the broken windowpanes, prosecutors said. The judge found that two other rioters had destroyed the window before Seefried cleared the piece of glass. Widely ..

Updated On : 25 Oct 2022 | 6:54 AM IST

Jan 6 riots committee subpoenas Trump, demanding historic testimony

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol formally issued an extraordinary subpoena to Donald Trump, demanding testimony from the former president who lawmakers say personally orchestrated a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The nine-member panel issued a letter to Trump's lawyers saying he must testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, beginning on or about November 14 and continuing for multiple days if necessary. The letter also outlined a sweeping request for documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups. Those are to be turned in by November 4, although the committee's deadlines are generally subject to negotiation. We recognise that a subpoena to a former president is a significant and historic action," Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in the letter to Trump. We do not take this action lightly. The panel rooted its .

Updated On : 22 Oct 2022 | 9:18 AM IST

Jan 6 riots committee promises 'surprising' details before election

The House Jan 6 committee is set to unveil surprising details including evidence from Donald Trump's Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the US Capitol in what is likely to be its last public hearing before the November midterm elections. The hearing Thursday afternoon, the 10th public session by the panel, is expected delve into Trump's state of mind" and the central role the defeated president played in the multipart effort to overturn the election, according to a committee aide who discussed the plans on condition of anonymity. The committee is starting to sum up its findings: Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, launched an unprecedented attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory. The result was the deadly mob siege of the Capitol. The mob was led by some extremist groups they plotted in advance what they were going to do, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a committee member, told CNN. And those individuals were known to people in the Trump ...

Updated On : 13 Oct 2022 | 11:40 AM IST

Donald Trump at centre of Oath Keepers novel defence in January 6 case

The defence team in the Capitol riot trial of the Oath Keepers leader is relying on an unusual strategy with Donald Trump at the centre. Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes, founder of the extremist group, are poised to argue that jurors cannot find him guilty of seditious conspiracy because all the actions he took before the siege on Jan. 6, 2021, were in preparation for orders he anticipated from the then-president orders that never came. Rhodes and four associates are accused of plotting for weeks to stop the transfer of presidential power from the Republican incumbent to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating with Oath Keepers in battle gear storming the Capitol alongside hundreds of other Trump supporters. Opening statements in the trial are set to begin Monday. Rhodes intends to take the stand to argue he believed Trump was going to invoke the Insurrection Act to call up a militia to support him, his lawyers have said. Trump didn't do that, but Rhodes' team says that what prosecutors alleg