US committee investigating Capitol riots issues first round of subpoenas
A House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol has subpoenaed four advisers and associates to former President Donald Trump, who were in contact with him before and during the attack.
The panel subpoenaed former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson wrote to the four men that the committee is investigating "the facts, circumstances, and causes" of the attack.
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Former associates and advisers of Supporters of former US President Donald Trump have been asked to provide documents as part of an investigation into the January 6 Capitol riots. AP
The committee also asked them to produce documents and appear at depositions in mid-October.
The subpoenas are a significant escalation for the panel, which plans to launch the interview phase of the investigation after sorting through thousands of pages of documents the committee requested from federal agencies and social media companies.
The goal is to provide a complete accounting of what went wrong when the Trump loyalists quickly overwhelmed police and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden's victory and to prevent anything like it from ever happening again.
Hundreds of Trump's followers violently broke into the Capitol that day and tried to overturn his defeat, interrupting the certification of President Joe Biden's victory.
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