Jan. 6 panel issues new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol sent a number of subpoenas Monday, including to top 2020 Trump campaign aides and the lawyer responsible for crafting the strategy of how the former president could seek to overturn the election results in Congress.

Jan. 6 panel issues new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides© The Hill Jan. 6 panel issues new subpoenas for Eastman, top Trump aides
Among the six subpoenas released is one for John Eastman, who drafted a memo advising the Trump campaign both to use supposed vice presidential authority to push back on election results and to get state legislatures to reject electors from certain states in order to deny President Biden a majority of the Electoral College vote.

The subpoenas also target Bill Stepien, the manager of former President Trump's 2020 campaign, Jason Miller, a senior advisor to the campaign, and Angela McCallum, Trump's campaign assistant.

Also among those subpoenaed to appear before the committee is Michael Flynn, who briefly served as Trump's national security advisor and who the committee said reportedly attended a December meeting at the White House during which participants discussed declaring a national emergency as a route for seizing voting machines.

"In the days before the January 6th attack, the former President's closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes. The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all," Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.