Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, instructed Newsmax Friday that Congress issuing a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for testimony in entrance of the committee investigating Jan. 6 is “ridiculous.”
“It’s ridiculous,” Jackson mentioned throughout “Rob Schmitt Tonight” Friday. “I am unable to consider the hypocrisy of the federal authorities on all of those explicit points.”
The Home committee issued the subpoena Friday calling for the previous president to testify on Nov. 14 simply hours after a federal choose sentenced former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to 4 months in jail for refusing to look in entrance of the panel.
“[Democrats] are placing Bannon in jail,” he mentioned. “When [Republicans] take the Home again and we subpoena individuals they usually do not present up, I count on them to go to jail.”
In accordance with The Washington Submit, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, and Vice Chairman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., issued an announcement as a part of a 10-page letter to Trump requesting his testimony.
“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have now assembled overwhelming proof, together with from dozens of your former appointees and workers, that you simply personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to impede the peaceable transition of energy,” the assertion mentioned.
Whereas the committee unanimously permitted the subpoena final week, and was anticipated to be issued, authorized specialists instructed the Submit that there’ll seemingly be a number of authorized hurdles to beat ought to Trump defy the subpoena, the Submit reported.
Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., challenged Trump to adjust to the subpoena within the Submit’s report.
“Earlier than any of the legalities, we would like the American individuals to ask themselves whether or not they would reply to a subpoena asking them to testify about an insurrectionary assault in opposition to the U.S. authorities,” Raskin mentioned within the report.
“What sort of American president sends different individuals into battle to storm the Capitol to ‘cease the steal,’ after which refuses even to inform the nation what he is aware of in regards to the occasions. What sort of snowflake are we coping with?”
The information outlet beforehand reported that Trump has instructed his internal circle that he’s keen to look and testify in entrance of the committee, however different advisers mentioned they do not count on him to look.
Of their assertion, Thompson and Cheney listed a number of former presidents which have testified after leaving workplace.
“Former Presidents John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford every testified earlier than Congress after they left workplace,” they write.
“President Roosevelt defined throughout his congressional testimony, ‘an ex-President is merely a citizen of america, like some other citizen, and it’s his plain responsibility to attempt to assist this committee or reply to its invitation.’ Even sitting Presidents, together with Abraham Lincoln and Gerald Ford, additionally testified earlier than Congress.
“Additional, each former and sitting presidents together with Presidents [Richard] Nixon, [John] Tyler, and [John] Quincy Adams, have offered proof in response to congressional subpoenas.”
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