Alex Jones of Infowars is followed by political operative Roger Stone L before the testimony of Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Google and its data collection, use and filtering practices on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. December 11, 2018. REUTERS Jim Young
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, Reuters -- The U.S. House of Representatives committee on the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol said on Monday it issued subpoenas to Alex Jones, founder of the right-wing website Infowars and Roger Stone, an ally of former President Donald Trump.
The committee also issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from Dustin Stockton, a political activist linked to longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Stockton's fiancee Jennifer Lawrence.
Stockton and Lawrence were members of the group We Build the Wall, which was raided by federal agents in August 2020 as part of a fraud investigation.
A subpoena was issued to Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Trump.
The panel has received testimony from more than 200 witnesses and has issued more than three dozen subpoenas.
Stone said he had not seen the subpoena yet, but he said he had no advance knowledge of the events that took place at the Capitol on that day. The four others who were issued the latest subpoenas did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Bannon, who defied a subpoena from the House Select Committee, was indicted earlier this month on two counts of contempt of Congress. A mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a failed attempt to prevent congressional certification of his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The committee is looking at Trump's actions relating to those events. Bannon is the first to face criminal charges arising from the panel's inquiry.
Nearly 700 people have been charged with taking part in the riot at the Capitol. It was the worst attack on the seat of the U.S. government since the War of 1812.