January 6th Committee Waves the White Flag on Donald Trump Testimony
Red StateDec 29, 2022
The House Jan. 6 committee has formally withdrawn its subpoena of former Pres. Trump, with committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) citing "the imminent end of our investigation" in a statement sent to Trump's lawyers.
Following the news, Trump issued a statement on Truth Social arguing that the "Unselect Committee of political Thugs [sic]" likely made the decision "because they knew I did nothing wrong, or they were about to lose in Court [sic]."
As anyone following the committee could tell, this subpoena was purposefully dead on arrival and only issued to create an anti-Trump media cycle the month leading up to the midterm elections. While that goal was certainly achieved, the subpoena itself was still a failure by the committee. It centered the entire so-called "investigation" around Trump and was never able to get what it wanted from him.
The committee's goal from the beginning was to collect evidence of wrongdoing by both Trump and his associates before and on the day of Jan. 6, 2021, which is exactly what it achieved. After months of revelations showing Trump's attempts to change the election and subsequently provoke an insurrection, the American people said enough is enough and voted against almost every Trump-endorsed candidate in November.
There's a 37% chance that any US court will rule that Donald J. Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency before January 20, 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.