The committee of the United States House of Representatives investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 has summoned three more people from the environment of former President Donald Trump, advisers Andrew Surabian and Arthur Schwartz, and Ross Worthington, to testify. who wrote the speech that the ex-president gave the same morning of the riots.
Surabian and Schwartz reportedly have been maintaining communications with the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, and with the former president’s adviser, Kimberly Guilfoyle, during the demonstrations in Ellipse, which preceded the assault on the Capitol, according to the committee, as stated in the American chain CNN.
The subpoenas, which were announced Tuesday by committee chair Bennie Thompson, require the three men to provide documents by January 24 and appear to testify between January 31 and February 2.
"We have reason to believe that the people we have quoted today have relevant information and we hope they will join the more than 340 people who have spoken with the committee as we move forward to investigate this attack."Thompson said.
Likewise, it has also reiterated that the protests, carried out by "troublemakers" They were "an attack on democracy" for "derail the peaceful transfer of power", according to Bloomberg.
Surabian’s lawyer, Daniel Bean, has stated in a statement posted on the adviser’s networks that they plan to cooperate with the committee "within reason", although they have shown "bewildered" with the decision: "It had nothing to do with the events that took place that day. He had no involvement in organizing the rally that preceded it and was outside the Trump campaign as of November 15, 2020".
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