Some have wondered why the January 6 committee waited so long to try to make the former president testify under oath.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack has been accused of carrying out a political stunt by waiting until its possibly final live hearing to vote to subpoena Donald Trump.
During its ninth public presentation on Thursday, the panel looking into the events which led up to the insurrection unanimously voted to issue a congressional subpoena against the former president to testify about the Capitol attack.
The likelihood of Trump complying with the subpoena or choosing not to invoke the Fifth Amendment if he does agree to answer questions are minimal at best.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) may not even decide to charge Trump for refusing to comply with the congressional subpoena, a step it didn’t take with former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and ex-deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, due to the potential fallout of indicting a former president with a relatively minor offense.
The timing of the vote has also been raised into question. Should the Republican Party retake control of the House in November’s midterms, the GOP would almost certainly drop the committee’s probe into the January 6 attack at the start of the next congressional term in January 2023 and would likely not recommend the DoJ bring charges against the former president.
