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FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump basal extracurricular the U.S. Capitol successful Washington connected Jan. 6, 2021. A national justice is questioning Donald Trump's efforts to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the Capitol. Judge Tanya Chutkan was skeptical Thursday, Nov. 4, of attorneys for the erstwhile president who asked her to artifact the handover of documents to a House committee. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

WASHINGTON – A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to six associates of erstwhile President Donald Trump who were progressive successful his efforts to overturn his decision successful the 2020 election, further escalating the panel’s probe into the origins of the convulsive attack.

The panel’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, said successful a connection Monday that the committee was demanding grounds and documents from erstwhile Trump run officials and others who strategized astir however to halt the certification of Biden’s triumph successful a alleged “war room” up of the siege.

Thompson said the committee had issued subpoenas to William Stepien, manager of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign; Jason Miller, a elder advisor to the campaign; Angela McCallum, nationalist enforcement adjunct to the campaign; John Eastman, a lawyer who advised the erstwhile president; Michael Flynn, a erstwhile nationalist information advisor to Trump who talked with Trump up of the insurrection; and Bernard Kerik, who the committee says paid for edifice rooms that served arsenic bid centers up of Jan. 6.

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“In the days earlier the January 6th attack, the erstwhile President’s closest allies and advisors drove a run of misinformation astir the predetermination and planned ways to halt the number of Electoral College votes. The Select Committee needs to cognize each item astir their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to successful the White House and successful Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all,” Thompson said successful a statement.

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