January 6 committee subpoenas Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone for testimony

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Source: CNN

(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to compel testimony from Pat Cipollone, former President Donald Trump's White House counsel. Cipollone, who many former administration officials credit with helping to prevent Trump from taking legally questionable actions in the months around the 2020 presidential election, has long been considered a key witness by the committee. He has resisted talking further with the committee after previously sitting for a closed-door interview. During recent public hearings, members of the panel have publicly pressured Cipollone to testify.

The committee is now taking the step to issue a subpoena in an effort to force his formal cooperation. Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel's chairman, and Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the panel's vice chair, said in a statement that "the Select Committee's investigation has revealed evidence that Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump's activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded." "While the Select Committee appreciates Mr. Cipollone's earlier informal engagement with our investigation, the committee needs to hear from him on the record, as other former White House counsels have done in other congressional investigations," the pair continued.

"Any concerns Mr. Cipollone has about the institutional prerogatives of the office he previously held are clearly outweighed by the need for his testimony." Witnesses who have testified before the panel have repeatedly mentioned Cipollone as someone who can shed light on key events inside the Trump White House leading up to, on and after January 6, 2021. Not long after the rioters broke into the US Capitol, Cipollone rushed into then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' office demanding a meeting with Trump, Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6 committee this week.

"I remember Pat saying to him something to the effect of, 'the rioters have gotten to the Capitol. We need to go down and see the President now,'" Hutchinson said in a videotaped interview. And Mark looked up at him and said, 'He doesn't want to do anything, Pat,'" she said. Cipollone, Hutchinson added, emphasized to Meadows the need for action to control the situation to Meadows. She said Cipollone "very clearly said this to Mark -- something to the effect of, 'Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood's going to be on your f**king hands. This is getting out of control. I'm going down there.'"

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(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to compel testimony from Pat Cipollone, former President Donald Trump's White House counsel.


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This is breaking all over with just brief blip. AP also just did a breaking.

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Pat Cipollone, former WH counsel

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who previous witnesses have testified was in meetings in which lawyers debated strategies to overturn former President Donald Trump's election loss.

The committee said that it required Cipollone's testimony after obtaining other evidence about which he was "uniquely positioned to testify."

The subpoena came one day after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson provided new details about Trump's behavior on Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of his supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol and broke inside to disrupt the certification of his loss to President Joe Biden.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-subpoenas-pat-cipollone-1c6b5339b27ccf885ae6261e84089e9c

[agingdem]

1. Now we're in business!

so, what will he do..motion to quash the subpoena, claim executive privilege, honor the subpoena with a closed door deposition?...

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He could do a Flynn with a barrage of "Fifths"

although, and maybe I'm recalling incorrectly, I thought some of the descriptions of his involvement were almost like he did the same sort of thing that McCarthy did - trying to head off some of the lunacy at the pass?

[SeattleVet]

3. He needs legal representation...

I understand that Rudy may be available. He has not yet been disbarred in DC.

[NYC Liberal]

4. I think his license is suspended there though.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. OK!!!! Now let's watch the DOJ jump into ACTION!!!!!!!.................

Oh, wait...........

There's a few others ahead of him in line, right Kevin? Mark?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. They may already be subjects of a grand jury (or subpoended to testify in one)

but we wouldn't know unless it was officially released info or their lawyers told us.

[soldierant]

7. I may just be blowing smoke,

(metaphorically - I quit smoking over 45 years ago) but based on others' testimony, he sounds like a possible candndaie for immunity It's true he didn't report what was going on (although even there, report to whome? No one around him was trustworthy), but he seems to have done all he could to tone it down and eliminate ot minimize bodily harm. If he could help us get the real slimeballs really pinned tight, I for one would not lose any sleep about him getting away

[NCjack]

8. I hope Rep Cheney asks him what is in the speech Trump planned to deliver

to Congress after his thugs captured the Capitol.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Cippolone might not know that but you bring up another possibility

I.e., every President has a cadre of speech writers and we all know the head honcho of that...



He did testify for the J6 Committee back in April but...