Trump does not appear to be taking the January 6 subpoena very well, if his 14—14!—page meltdown is anything to go by.
The January 6 committee has used its public hearings over the last several months to lay out, in painstaking detail, the lengths to whichtried to overturn the election, unleashed a mob on the US Capitol when things didn’t go his way, and did nothing to stop the violence that, despite what his allies may claim, he absolutely loved watching play out.
Over the course of a classically unhinged but long-winded-even-for-him letter to the committee, Trump did not indicate whether he would actually comply with the subpoena. He did, however, double down on his favorite election lies and cast himself as a victim of terrible injustice inNot surprisingly, the first sentence of the missive, addressed to chairmanreads: “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!” Things then further devolve from there.
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