Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee will not let Trump flip testimony right into a ‘circus,’ Cheney says

The Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump Friday, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., mentioned Trump won’t be able to show his testimony right into a “circus.”

“The committee treats this matter with nice seriousness,” she advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “It might take a number of days, and it will likely be finished with a stage of rigor and self-discipline and seriousness that it deserves.”

The committee voted unanimously on the subpoena and is demanding related information and Trump’s testimony beneath oath subsequent month.

“We acknowledge {that a} subpoena to a former president is a big and historic motion,” the panel’s leaders wrote Trump in a letter on Friday. Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cheney cited what they known as Trump’s central function in a deliberate, “multi-part effort” to reverse his loss within the 2020 presidential election.

The subpoena mentioned that Trump can be deposed on Nov. 14, after the midterm elections. It’s not clear whether or not he’ll comply.

Former White Home aide Stephen Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in jail earlier Friday for refusing to adjust to subpoenas from the identical committee. He stays free pending attraction.

Cheney mentioned the committee has made it clear what Trump’s obligations are, and that it plans to proceed accordingly.

“This is not going to be his first debate towards Joe Biden and the circus and the meals combat that that grew to become,” she mentioned. “This can be a far too severe set of points.”