Hours earlier, Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify in the committee’s investigation into the insurrection.

In a letter to Trump’s lawyers, the nine-member special panel demanded that the former president testify under oath, either on Capitol Hill or by videoconference, “beginning on or about November 14.” which is after the crucial midterm elections on November 8 – and continue for several days if necessary.

A series of documents was also requested, including personal communications between him and legislators, as well as with extremist groups, made on the day of the assault. The subpoena comes after this special panel voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to order Trump to appear before investigators.

“We recognize that subpoenaing a former president is an important and historic move,” commission chair Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney wrote in the letter. “We do not take this measure lightly.”

It was unclear how the tycoon and his legal team would respond to the order, as he could abide by it, negotiate with the panel or simply ignore it. He could also challenge it in court. His spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.

The commission alleged in its letter that it has gathered “overwhelming evidence” that Trump “personally orchestrated” a campaign to reverse his own defeat in the 2020 election, including spreading false allegations of widespread fraud, “attempting to corrupt” the Department. of Justice and pressuring state officials, legislators and his own vice president to alter the results.

Lawmakers, however, say key details about the case are missing, and the only person who can fill those gaps is Trump.

Meanwhile, federal judge Carl Nichols sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison for refusing to testify, although he allowed him to remain free while he appeals. In addition, he fined her $6,500 as part of the sentence. In July, a federal court found him guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: refusing to testify and failing to produce documents.

Steve Bannon, Trump ally and convicted of contempt of Congress, accompanied by his lawyer Evan Corcoran, leaving the court that sentenced him yesterday. Photo: AP.

Nichols recalled that the law clearly establishes that contempt of the legislature is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of one month in jail. The prosecution had asked for a six-month sentence, while the defense had argued in favor of a period of probation.

“Today was my trial day,” Bannon said defiantly as he left federal court in Washington. He promised that “on November 8 the illegitimate regime” of President Joe Biden will be judged, alluding to the mid-term elections. Protesters yelled at him “Traitor! Fascist!”

Asked about the sentence, Biden responded with disdain: “I never have a reaction with Steve Bannon.”

Alan Byerly, a Pennsylvania man, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for assaulting an Associated Press photographer and attacking police officers with a stun gun during unrest on Capitol Hill.

The Department of Justice assured that it urgently needs “more than 34 million dollars in additional financing” to maintain the investigation against those suspected of participating in the insurrection of January 6.

In this context, anonymous sources consulted by The Washington Post newspaper reported that the documents seized from the Trump mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, last August included highly confidential intelligence data that addressed Iran’s missile program and “described a job of highly sensitive intelligence directed at China.

(Taken from The Day)

The congresswoman launched those words when an aide informed her that the Secret Service – the police force that protects the US president – had refused to allow Trump to go to Capitol Hill to support his supporters, who were in full coup attempt.

Pelosi’s sentence was recorded on video by her daughter, Alexandra, who is a documentary filmmaker and was recording the ratification of the election result that Joe Biden won that day.

The video was broadcast Thursday at the session of the House Committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters.

The footage was overshadowed in the media by the vote to call the former president to testify before the Committee.

Today, Friday, Trump has tried to respond to the summons to testify with a 14-page letter in which he does not say whether he will go or not, although he insists again on his theory -never proven- that in 2020 there was fraud electoral.

But the video reveals how Pelosi and then-Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to prevent the assault on Congress.

Likewise, it shows Pelosi, once she had already been evacuated from the building, trying to mobilize the National Guard to come to the Capitol to restore order.

The images and sound reveal that, contrary to what Trump and several of his supporters in Congress have stated, Pelosi tried to restore order so that the election ratification process could continue.

(Taken from The World)