Latest subpoenas suggest DOJ probe could be aiming squarely at Trump
Source: CNN
(CNN)"This is probably bad ... for former President Trump."
With dry understatement, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the insurrection, summed up on CNN on Wednesday a significant turn in the Department of Justice probe into the mob attack on the US Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
News of grand jury subpoenas for former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and former deputy counsel Patrick Philbin, the latter of which was first reported by CNN, is the latest sign that department investigators are reaching inside Trump's inner circle during his final days in the White House.
These developments, which are the clearest indication yet that Trump is in the investigation's sights, suggest the effort to find the truth will survive even if Republicans win the House this fall and shut down the select committee. Unlike the House investigation, the Justice Department would be able to bring criminal charges against former Trump administration officials if it chooses.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/trump-justice-department-probe-subpoenas/index.html
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