Donald Trump won’t say if he’ll comply with subpoena in scathing memo to January 6 committee

Ex-President Donald Trump despatched a letter to the Home choose committee probing the Capitol riot after its members voted to subpoena him (Footage: AP)

Former President Donald Trump despatched a scathing letter to the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot – however uncared for to say whether or not he’ll adjust to a subpoena.

The Home choose committee launched the letter from Trump on Friday morning, a day after voting unanimously to name onhim for questioning on his position within the occasions main as much as the riot.

‘This memo is being written to precise our anger, disappointment, and criticism that with all the a whole lot of tens of millions of dollars spent on what many think about to be a Charade and Witch Hunt,’ wrote Trump within the 14-page letter.

‘And regardless of robust and highly effective requests, you haven't spent even a brief second on analyzing the huge Election Fraud that happened throughout the 2020 Presidential Election, and have focused solely those that have been, as involved American Residents, protesting the Fraud itself.’

The January 6 committee on Thursday voted unanimously to subpoena ex-President Donald Trump (Image: AP)

Trump didn't point out the elephant within the room – the subpoena that panel members voted 9-0 to proceed with.

As a substitute, Trump railed on the committee along with his first line that was all in capital letters: ‘THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!’

Trump once more introduced up the group measurement for a rally he held early on January 6, 2021, during which he urged his supporters to battle the election outcomes.

The ex-president claimed that he licensed hundreds of troops to be deployed to the Capitol ‘as a result of I knew, simply primarily based on intuition and what I used to be listening to, that the group coming to hearken to my speech, and numerous others, can be a really huge one, far larger than anybody thought doable’.

The January 6 committee held its tenth and final assembly on Thursday earlier than the midterm elections (Image: CNP)

‘Because it seems, it was certainly one of many largest crowds I've ever spoken (at) earlier than, a really large swath stretching all the way in which again to the Washington Monument,’ he wrote.

‘The large measurement of this crowd, and its which means, has by no means been a topic of your Committee, nor has it been mentioned by the Faux Information Media that completely refuses to acknowledge, in any method, form or type, the magnitude of what was going down.’

Rep Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the January 6 committee, on Thursday stated Trump ‘is the one individual on the middle of the story of what occurred on Jan 6. So we wish to hear from him’.

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