Trump used the letter, addressed to committee Chair Bennie Thompson, to rail against what he called the “unselect” committee’s yearlong investigation.Trump used the letter, addressed to committee Chair Bennie Thompson, to rail against what he called the “unselect” committee’s yearlong investigation.
Former President Donald Trump, in a winding 14-page letter to the Jan. 6 select committee on Friday, declined to divulge whether he’d comply with the panel’s subpoena and testify before it.
Trump instead used the letter, addressed to committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), to rail against what he called the “unselect” committee’s yearlong investigation, which has amassed a wealth of evidence on the former president’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated with the Jan. 6 raid on the capitol by Trump supporters. The committee voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena the former president, moving the panel into what’s expected to be its final phase.
“Despite very poor television ratings, the Unselect Committee has perpetuated a Show Trial the likes of which this Country has never seen before,” Trump said in the letter, which he shared on Truth Social on Friday morning.
The former president also criticized the Jan. 6 committee in the letter for not investigating his long-held, baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and repeated his false claims that he won the election over President Joe Biden.
