Six more top advisers to former President Donald Trump now face subpoenas from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an effort by the panel to learn about the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Legal scholar John Eastman and Bernard Keri, a former New York City police commissioner, took part in the discussions in early January at the Willard Hotel in Washington about how to deliver the presidency to Trump despite his loss at the polls, the Washington Post reports.
Michael Flynn, who was briefly Trump's national security adviser, also was summoned. So were three members of Trump's reelection campaign: Jason Miller, Angela McCallum, and Bill Stepien, who was campaign manager. All were "tied to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election," the panel said in a statement, per CNBC. Chairman Bennie Thompson said his committee wants to know "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."
Eastman met with Kerik and Steve Bannon at the Willard "command center" to discuss how to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to take steps to block the certification of the election results, per the Post. Bannon was subpoenaed but has refused to cooperate with the committee and has been held in contempt by the House. The Post found that Miller was in contact with Trump on Jan. 6 and helped him draft a statement after the attack. The depositions for the six are scheduled to begin near the end of the month and wrap up by mid-December. (More Capitol riot stories.)
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