In an extraordinary move, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump on Friday.
on Friday, kicking off a legal battle with the former president who has denounced the committee's investigation as political.
"You were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturn an election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on the Congress itself," said the letter signed by the committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson,D-Miss., and vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has not said whether or not he would honor the subpoena.
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