Roger Stone, left, and Alex Jones hold a press conference before attending a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2018.
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Roger Stone, left, and Alex Jones hold a press conference before attending a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2018.
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The Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued five new subpoenas to several ex-Trump allies, including Roger Stone, spokesman Taylor Budowich and InfoWars founder Alex Jones.
The committee said the subpoenas are focused on the planning and financing of Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 rallies in Washington, D.C., the subsequent march and deadly riot.
With this latest wave, the panel has now issued 40 subpoenas in its probe.
“The Select Committee is seeking information about the rallies and subsequent march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob attacking the Capitol and threatening our democracy,” the committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement. “We need to know who organized, planned, paid for, and received funds related to those events, as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress.”
The subpoenas, which include demands for records and testimony, were also issued for Dustin Stockton, and his fiancé, Jennifer Lawrence. Both were involved in the rallies, the committee said.
All the new witnesses were told they are due to turn over documents and testify by mid-December.
Before this new wave of testimony and document demands, the committee issued nearly three dozen subpoenas for former Trump officials, advisers and Jan. 6 rally organizers.
So far, the committee has met with about 200 unnamed witnesses, who spoke voluntarily, received 25,000 pages of documents and has gotten more than 200 tips through a hotline, said California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the panel.
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Stone, who was pardoned by the former president for several crimes tied to a congressional probe into the Trump 2016 campaign, participated in “Stop the Steal” efforts, the panel said.
Through an attorney, Stone said in a statement that he had not been served his subpoena and has not seen the…
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