“We Demand Answers On The Crime Of The Century”: Donald Trump Reacts to January 6 Committee Subpoena With Lengthy Missive

After the January 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump on Thursday, on Friday evening, Trump wrote an angry 14-page letter reacting to the House committee’s efforts.

Despite the letter’s length, the former president did not address whether he would comply with the subpoena. Instead, the message began with a familiar string of words—in all-caps this time: “The presidential election of 2020 was rigged and stolen!”

In the missive, Trump sank even deeper into his hole of 2020 election fraud lies and said the committee pursued the wrong people: “You have not gone after the people that created the Fraud, but rather great American Patriots who questioned it, as is their Constitutional right. These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow.”

He concluded by saying, “We demand answers on the Crime of the Century.”

The New York Times reported that sources expect the January 6 committee to issue the subpoena as soon as Monday. The hearing on Thursday was likely the panel’s last public hearing. Just before the committee members voted on the subpoena, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said: ​​“[Trump] is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on January 6. So we want to hear from him. The committee needs to do everything in our power to tell the most complete story possible.”

Footage released on Thursday showed how Trump had planned on announcing his 2020 victory months in advance. Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told the committee that Trump had planned on declaring victory–regardless of the real results–since July 2020.

Similarly, conservative activist Tom Fitton sent a memo to two White House officials on October 31, 2020–four days before Election Day–stating, “We had an election today—and I won.”

One day after the vote for subpoenaing the former president, the Justice Department appealed the appointment of the special master to review the documents found at Mar-a-Lago.

“Plaintiff has no plausible claim of executive privilege as to any of the seized materials and no plausible claim of personal attorney-client privilege as to the seized government records — including all records bearing classification markings,” according to the DOJ’s brief.

“Accordingly, the special-master review process is unwarranted,” the DOJ wrote.