Trump isn’t ‘man sufficient’ to testify in Jan. 6 probe, Pelosi says By Reuters

By Richard Cowan and Katharine Jackson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is an excessive amount of of a coward to obey a subpoena from the U.S. Congress compelling him to testify to a particular committee investigating his function within the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, Home of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi prompt on Sunday.

“I do not suppose he is man sufficient to indicate up. I do not suppose his attorneys will need him to indicate up as a result of he has to testify underneath oath,” Pelosi stated in an interview with MSNBC.

“We’ll see if he is man sufficient to indicate up,” she added.

On Friday, the choose committee introduced that it had issued the subpoena to Trump, giving him till Nov. 4 to submit a variety of paperwork associated to his actions earlier than and after the lethal Jan. 6 assault by the previous president’s supporters. The panel additionally knowledgeable Trump that it desires him to seem for testimony on or about Nov. 14.

The assault on the Capitol erupted as Trump supporters tried to cease Congress from formally certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s decisive win within the 2020 presidential election.

Trump and Pelosi have had an extended, stormy relationship.

She guided two impeachment proceedings in opposition to him and their dislike of one another typically was on public show throughout his presidency.

On the conclusion of Trump’s 2020 “State of the Union” speech to Congress, Pelosi disdainfully tore in half a printed copy of that deal with as she sat behind him throughout the nationally televised occasion. That got here after Trump arrived on the Home podium to start the speech and refused to shake Pelosi’s hand.

The earlier 12 months, a White Home assembly between Trump and congressional leaders on U.S. coverage in Syria erupted in anger when Trump reportedly referred to as Pelosi a “third-rate politician” and later stated she was “unhinged.”

Exterior the White Home following the assembly that Democrats stormed out of, Pelosi advised reporters Trump had suffered a “meltdown.”

Additionally on Sunday, Republican Consultant Liz Cheney advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump doubtless has dedicated a number of prison offenses that the U.S. Division of Justice doubtlessly can prosecute him on.

“We now have been very clear about a variety of completely different prison offenses which can be doubtless at concern right here,” stated Cheney, considered one of two Republican members on the choose Home panel.

“He has demonstrated his willingness to make use of power to try to cease the peaceable transition of energy,” Cheney stated.

She didn’t lay out particular prison fees the committee may advocate in an upcoming report following a greater than year-long investigation.

Cheney, who misplaced her Republican management function over her criticisms of Trump, in addition to her 2022 major election, stated, “We now have placed on testimony that he admitted that he misplaced (the 2020 presidential election).

“However even when he thought that he had gained, you could not ship an armed mob to the Capitol. You might not sit for 187 minutes and refuse to cease the assault whereas it is underway. You might not ship a tweet that incites additional violence,” Cheney stated.

Cheney didn’t say what the panel would do if Trump refuses to cooperate with the subpoena. If he testifies, she stated, “he isn’t going to show this right into a circus.”