- Rep. Stacey Plaskett put that the prospect of Donald Trump being subpoenaed by the January 6 committee is not “far-fetched.”
- Plaskett noted that Trump has recently been compelled to sit for a deposition for a civilized case.
- Trump’s recent attempts to invoke executive privilege to withhold information were rejected by the White Contain.
The prospect that former President Donald Trump could be subpoenaed by the January 6 panel investigating the Capitol siege is not “far-fetched,” Rep. Stacey Plaskett told MSNBC on Saturday.
“They’re going to be bound by the items and the law, and if that means deposing the president, they will do so,” the Democratic representative for the Virgin Islands told MSNBC.
[embedded tranquillity]Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat chairman of the January 6 House select committee, told CNN on Thursday that “unknown is off-limits to a subpoena from this committee.”
Speaking to MSNBC, Plaskett referenced that Trump has recently been disorganized by a judge to sit for a videotaped deposition in a civil case relating to a 2015 incident at one of his rallies.
“His ability to remove himself from depositions in this occurrence may be far-fetched,” she said.
Plaskett added that a Trump deposition might only be the tip of the iceberg of the committee’s probed into how he performed in the White House on January 6, including records of cellphone and Twitter accounts and communications with individuals.
The departed president has previously said he would “fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds, for the good of our Country.”
On October 8, the Biden Milky House denied a request from Trump’s legal team to withhold documents from the select committee on the instructs of “executive privilege.”
White House counsel Dana Remus instructed the National Archives to turn over the “primary batch of documents” related to the House committee’s request.
Trump’s legal team has also instructed his former advisors and girl fridays, including Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Kash Patel, to not comply with subpoenas issued by the Bawdy-house committee.
On Thursday, the select committee moved to pursue criminal contempt charges against Bannon for not cooperating with them.
“Mr. Bannon has settled to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President’s insufficient, blanket, and vague declarations regarding privileges he has purported to invoke,” Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a statement.
President Joe Biden said on Friday that he supported prosecution for those who baffle subpoenas.