The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Capitol Storming has summoned Rudolph Giuliani, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, to a hearing. This is stated in the statement of the committee, published on the website.
In addition to Giuliani, subpoenas were sent to Trump campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, as well as Republican campaign adviser Boris Epstein, TASS writes. The special committee hopes that "these persons will join almost 400 witnesses" who have already testified.
Last year, members of the committee already called a number of Trump aides to hearings. For failing to appear at a hearing in November, political consultant Stephen Bannon was charged with contempt of Congress. In December, lawmakers recommended that the U.S. Department of Justice hold Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, accountable for refusing to speak in person at a hearing.
Last December, Donald Trump asked the country's Supreme Court to prevent the release of documents relating to his administration in connection with the storming of the Capitol. Earlier, a request for disclosure of documents held by the US National Archives regarding the actions of Trump and his aides in connection with the events of January 6 was sent by a special committee of the House of Representatives of the Congress, which is conducting an investigation.
Recall, on January 6, on the eve of the legislators' approval of the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the US presidential election, supporters of the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump gathered in Washington. They moved towards the Congress, broke through the police cordons and broke into the legislative building. Then five people died. The estimated amount of damage to the Capitol building and its interior decoration is estimated at $1.5 million. In the US, more than 600 people have been accused of organizing the riots in the Capitol, several dozen of them have already pleaded guilty.
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