Politico | Donald Trump tells four former aides to defy January 6 committee’s subpoena
- The former US president is signalling he will go to court to block testimony from ex-adviser Steve Bannon, ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others
- The four men have been ordered to turn over documents related to the Capitol attack by Thursday and to sit for interviews with investigators next week
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Betsy Woodruff Swan on politico.com on October 7, 2021.
Former US president Donald Trump is directing a group of his former aides to ignore a subpoena from the House committee probing the January 6 Capitol attack and signalling he will go to court to block their testimony to the investigators.
The committee has subpoenaed documents and testimony from four Trump administration alumni: former social media tsar Dan Scavino, former defence department official Kash Patel, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
The four men were ordered to turn over documents related to January 6 by Thursday and to sit for interviews with investigators next week.
But Trump is saying otherwise. In a letter that POLITICO viewed, a Trump lawyer tells them not to cooperate with the probe.
