As of: 12/29/2022 9:13 p.m
The investigative committee into the storming of the US Capitol has published its final report and will be dissolved next week. Therefore, the subpoena for Trump was withdrawn. The ex-president is celebrating.
The US Congressional committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 has officially withdrawn the subpoena against ex-President Donald Trump. Several US media reported on a letter in which Democratic committee chair Bennie Thompson informed Trump’s lawyers.
The committee of inquiry published its final report shortly before Christmas. Thompson explained that the subpoena was withdrawn because the panel had finished its work. The information obtained with a subpoena could then not be pursued further.
The committee is dissolved
The newly elected US Congress meets on Tuesday. Republicans then have a majority in the House of Representatives. The democratically led investigative committee is dissolved.
After several months of hearing numerous Trump confidants, the investigative committee decided in October to subpoena Trump himself – a rare measure against which the ex-president sued.
Trump sees the fact that the subpoena has now been withdrawn as a success. “They probably did it because they knew I wasn’t doing anything wrong,” he wrote on Truth Social, a social media platform he co-founded.
The judiciary decides on an indictment
In its final report, the committee advised Trump to be barred from a new presidency. The panel also recommended in its most recent public hearing that the Justice Department should prosecute the ex-president on four counts, including aiding and abetting the insurgency. The judiciary will now decide whether Trump will actually be charged.
On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters violently stormed the seat of Parliament in Washington DC. On that day, Congress convened to officially confirm Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election. Trump had previously emphasized in a speech that the election was stolen. Five people died in the course of the violent conflict.