WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 uprising on Capitol Hill has assigned 11 people who helped plan pro-President Donald Trump rallies ahead of the attack, adding the big occasion on siege day that the president told supporters. to “fight like a demon. “
The announcement follows a first subpoena circular last week addressed to former White House and management officials who were in contact with Trump before and the insurgency.
The committee said Wednesday that the subpoenas are part of the panel’s efforts to collect data from organizers “and their related entities on the planning, organization and investment of those events. “In letters to officials summoned to appear, committee chairman Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson demanded that they provide documents to the panel by Oct. thirteen and appear in separate depositions the committee has scheduled for between October and early November.
Thompson cites in the letters the efforts of representatives of the Organization Women for America First to organize the rally on January 6 and jointly with senior White House officials. The subpoenas also mention other occasions the organization planned in the weeks between Trump’s election defeat in November. and the January attack.
The House committee of nine lawmakers, seven Democrats and two Republicans, has stepped up its investigation in recent weeks as it tries to dissect the origins of the insurgency through Trump supporters and pinpoint tactics to prevent it from falling again. Police officers injured as they made their way inside the building, destroyed assets and sent lawmakers to run for their lives. Repeating Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud, they disrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory and deeply shook those on Capitol Hill.
The list of subpoenas includes Amy Kremer, founder and president of Women for America First; Kylie Kremer, founder and executive director of Women for America First; Cynthia Chafian, organizer who presented the first permit for the rally; Caroline Wren, who said the committee in the permit documents for the Jan. 6 collection as a “VIP advisor”; and Maggie Mulvaney, whom the panel said on the leave of time as a “VIP manager. “
Wren, a veteran Republican fundraiser, was the national finance representative for Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the president’s re-election crusade and the Republican National Committee. The AP in the past reported that Wren participated in at least one call before Trump’s professional—Moninato with members of several teams indexed as participants in the rally to set up the credentials of VIP participants.
Amy Kremer, who the committee said was on the list of designated contact items for the rally, denounced the attack on Jan. 6 and said it was triggered after the rally through a “handful of bad actors,” though she appeared to be to blame. Democrats and media for the riots. She is also a co-founder of pac Women for Trump and former president of the Tea Party Express.
Mulvaney, niece of Trump’s most sensible former adviser Mick Mulvaney, worked as director of monetary operations for the Trump campaign, according to her LinkedIn profile. Maggie Mulvaney retweeted several messages on Jan. 6, adding one from the president urging the Capitol Police.
Former Trump Crusade official Katrina Pierson also cited the commission, which the committee said was “apparently concerned about organizing” the Jan. 6 rally and a smaller one the day before. Trump in the days leading up to the rally.
The other names on the list were related to the control and production of the rally and dealt with scheduling, operations and logistics. These are Justin Caporale and Tim Unes of Event Strategies Inc. , Megan Powers of MPowers Consulting LLC, Hannah Salem of Salem. Strategies LLC and Lyndon Brentnall of RMS Protective Services.
Event Strategies states on its online page that it has “played a vital role in each and every U. S. presidential crusade since its founding. “Corporal and Unes were on the Jan. 6 permit document list as assignment manager and rally manager, according to the committee.
Powers, who served as director of operations for the 2020 campaign, worked as press secretary at the White House and NASA, and was listed as one of two operations managers for the Jan. 6 event. The White House press director advances, the “director of logistics and communications operations” of the rally, according to the permit documents.
The panel said Brentnall indexed in the permit documents as an “on-site supervisor. “He is the owner of RmS Protective Services, founded in Florida, which promotes the protection, investigation, tracking and scanning of errors.
It’s unclear whether any of the other 15 people the committee has cited will accept the requests. Committee members have stated that they are ready to fight for testimony and will use the courts to do so if necessary. The press Wednesday night responded to requests for comment.
Many of the rioters who stormed the Capitol walked down the National Mall from the rally as Trump spoke for more than an hour and told the crowd to “fight like hell. “They had been refuted in elections and courts across the country.
At the rally, Trump warned that protesters will head to the Capitol from the domain of staging near the White House to inspire Republican lawmakers to “step up” and oppose voters’ willingness to give him another term. Many did, and he still speaks as otros. la people started running towards the building.
On Jan. 6, the House committee issued subpoenas to former White House leader Mark Meadows, former White House deputy communications director Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. unwavering top helpers and some of them spoke to him or were with him that day.
In July, the committee held an emotional first hearing with 4 police officers who fought the insurgents and were injured and verbally assaulted when rioters stormed the building, spoke of their lingering physical and intellectual injuries and described in detail how they were attacked through the Officer said he called racial slurs while holding the insurgents.
At least nine other people who were there died and after the riots, adding a woman who was shot dead by police as she tried to break into the House chamber and 3 other Trump supporters who suffered medical emergencies. days later, and a third officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed and died after interacting with protesters. Later, a medical examiner decided that he had died of herbal causes.
The Metropolitan Police announced this summer that two of its officers, Officers Kyle DeFreytag and Gunther Hashida, had died by suicide and both had responded to the insurgency.