The Jan. 6 House select committee’s decision to withdraw its subpoena of former President Donald Trump prompted a victory lap from his attorney and the former commander-in-chief himself, who speculated that the panel was well aware he had done “nothing wrong.”
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, which came after the committee concluded its work last week and released its final report….