Jan. 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena for President Trump

The Jan. 6 House select committee withdraw its subpoena of President Donald Trump, which prompted a victory lap from his attorney and the former commander-in-chief himself. The panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said in a letter to Trump’s attorneys that the committee is no longer pursuing the subpoena that was issued in October for the former president’s testimony and documents regarding the Jan. 6, 2021 incident at the Capitol. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” Thompson wrote in the Dec. 28 letter,…