House Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas Giuliani, Powell over alleged election fraud

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House Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas Giuliani, Powell over alleged election fraud

The House Committee on Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Tuesday to Rudy Giuliani and three other allies of former President Donald Trump who were involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

The committee said Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn publicly promoted unsupported claims about the 2020 election and participated in attempts to delay or disrupt the certification of election results. The four individuals we subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. In a statement, the statement was made.

The committee said in a news release that Giuliani actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of the former President and wanted to convince state legislators to take measures to overturn the election results. He was reported to have been in contact with President Trump and other members of Congress about strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election. Powell, Thompson said in a letter that he promoted election fraud claims and was reported to have urged President Trump to control voting machines around the country to find evidence that foreign adversaries had hacked those machines and altered the results of the election. Ellis, the committee said, has prepared and circulated two memos which are intended to analyze the constitutional authority for the Vice President to refuse or delay counting electoral votes, while Epshteyn reportedly had a call with President Trump on the morning of January 6th to discuss options to delay the certification of election results in the event of Vice President Pence s unwillingness to deny or delay the certification.