Trump writes to Jan. 6 committee after its vote to subpoena him (CBS News)

[ificandream]

A day after the House Jan. 6 select committee voted unanimously to subpoena former President Trump, he responded with an angry letter to committee Chairman Bennie Thompson to complain about its work. The select committee has been investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and its root causes, with the aim of determining who was responsible for the mayhem and preventing it from happening again.

Trump did not mention the subpoena, and instead railed at the committee; he said he was writing "to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt." He also attacked the committee for not looking into election fraud and appeared to defend the targets of the committee, who, he claimed were just acting "as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself."

Thompson said in Thursday's hearing that Trump "is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6. So we want to hear from him."

The former president also brought up crowd size in the letter, complete with an appendix of photos of the crowd, and assailed the committee in his first line in all capital letters: "THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!"

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-writes-to-jan-6-committee-after-its-vote-to-subpoena-him/ar-AA12XGna

Direct link to Trump letter: https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=test123&_nhids=TEST?ftag=MSF0951a18

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Comment: Trump's usual performance for his minions. Wah, wah, wah. Cry baby ...

(FYI, I posted this because of the direct link to his letter.)

[cilla4progress]

1. Petulant child

With petulant children for adherents.

SMDH.

[MuseRider]

2. How do people not see

the illness in this despicable human form?

We would have questioned the sanity of any of our people after a few weeks of his campaign and then rapidly discarded him. We KNOW how bad it is for our country to have someone like this and now there are more of them and they are all acceptible to them.

Our country has fallen already. I sure hope we can drag it back because quite frankly I do not think most of them want to go back.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Trump will do anything possible but testify under oath. He is married to his lies. He won't divorce.

Pelosi is right. Trump isn't man enough to tell the truth.

[Yonnie3]

4. How does this help him?

The committee won't change course.

Those who would believe the nonsense in the letter already believe it, so no help there.

Its purpose is only for his ego.

[chriscan64]

5. The letter is his testimony

Of course, it is missing the "under penalty of perjury" line down where he signed it. It is just his way of making cowardice look like bravery. There may have been political calculation, but in the end, he just can't shut up. He has to have the last word, the last false, ignorant word.