Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Stephen Miller, Kayleigh McEnany and other top ex-Trump aides

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Source: NBC News

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a new round of subpoenas on Tuesday to 10 former officials who worked in the Trump administration, including Kayleigh McEnany and Stephen Miller.

McEnany had been serving as White House press secretary on the day of the riot, a position she held from April 2020 until Trump left office. Miller, who was a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, spread erroneous information about voter fraud in the 2020 election and was involved in efforts to encourage state legislatures to alter the outcome, according to the committee.

Others subpoenaed on Tuesday included Nicholas Luna, a personal assistant to Trump; Molly Michael, a special assistant to Trump; Ben Williamson, a deputy assistant to Trump and senior adviser to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Christopher Liddell, a former White House deputy chief of staff; John McEntee, a former White House personnel director; Keith Kellogg, who served as former Vice President Pence's national security adviser; Cassidy Hutchinson, a special assistant to Trump for legislative affairs; and Kenneth Klukowski, a former senior counsel to assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.

"We believe the witnesses subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to comply fully with the Select Committee’s investigation as we work to get answers for the American people," said Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. in a statement.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-stephen-miller-kayleigh-mcenany-among-other-n1283587

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The fresh batch of subpoenas comes only a day after the select committee issued subpoenas to six former Trump administration and campaign officials: Bill Stepien, Trump's 2020 re-election campaign manager; Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser; Angela McCallum, a campaign aide; John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who was reported to have advised Trump and others in the administration; Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser; and Bernard Kerik, an adviser who the committee said used Washington, D.C., hotels as "command centers" for the campaign's election strategy.

[SeattleVet]

1. Slowly making their way through TFG's syndicate.

Climbing the food chain to the big prizes.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Yeah, I'm Sure He's Shaking In His Gold Boots Down In Mara Lago nt

[RFCalifornia]

3. He's been teflon thus far

And the penalty for ignoring a subpoena is maybe a $1K fine

It would be nice if the 1/6 cmte had some teeth

[padah513]

6. Easy to be teflon when you control the DOJ

He doesn't anymore and it shows. 150+ interviews thus far. I wanted them to rush too, but patience is what's needed here. The pieces are starting to fall into place. Watch Angela McCallum. She's in deep and she doesn't want to go to jail. She's gonna give up the farm and everybody in it. Aren't recording great?

[RFCalifornia]

8. Whatever stops him, so. Mote. It. Be.

[Loge23]

4. ...and if they ignore the subpoenas?

Will the DOJ react? It's one of the last pillars to fall if they don't.

[captain queeg]

5. I'm hoping they are building their case, starting at the lower levels

So when they start dragging in the big fish they’ll easily prove perjury. I think that’s how they attack mob cases and the slob father is nothing more than a mobster. At any rate, I’m not giving up on things because they are progressing slowly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Good

[appmanga]

9. You can't convince the country you're serious...

...by not letting the country know your serious.

If this committee is met by further stonewalling, they have to start using their power of inherent contempt. They can't allow any of these people to slow walk away from having to testify by going through the courts. The whole idea of going to court is run out the clock on this session of Congress and hope the Democrats lose their majority in the House.

Supreme Court precedent (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/#tab-opinion-1931647) is plain and clear: either chamber of Congress can have recalcitrant witnesses arrested and detained until they cooperate with Congress. I believe the specter of having to spend an indefinite period in the D.C. jail should convince all these people they're better off testifying.

The effect of using inherent contempt would also be huge news that will hopefully allow people to understand this is not a run-of-the-mill exercise, and the extent the committee and the Democrats are willing to go to in order to get to the bottom of Trump's attempted coup.

[demosurvivor]

10. Until the DOJ

gets off their ass, do their job, and put Bannon behind bars, don't count on any of these losers to show up. All of em think they are above the law, and push that fact every day. Again you can thank the narcissistic, corrupt, game show host for all of this.