Following the Jan 6 Committee’s decision to subpoena him on Thursday, President Donald Trump hit back with a blistering statement.
President Trump released a 14-page statement on Friday which denounced the House Committee as “highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs.”
He began the statement by again saying that the 2020 Presidential election was ‘rigged and stolen.’
Trump called the J6 Committee as a “total ‘BUST.'”
He also questioned why they waited until now to ask him to testify.
“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly — A laughing stock all over the World?”
While he did not say one way or another if he would comply, Trump will likely fight the committee’s decision.
'LAUGHING STOCK': Trump responds to 'total BUST' of a Jan. 6 committee after partisan panel's vote to subpoena him https://t.co/dqsmt7gkoQ pic.twitter.com/dBz9PILhFA
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 13, 2022
Newsmax shared President Trump’s reaction:
Former President Donald Trump slammed the Jan. 6 committee, calling it a “total ‘BUST'” after it voted to subpoena him on Thursday.
“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly — A laughing stock all over the World?”
https://twitter.com/amadorn/status/1580890363438370817?s=20&t=wZiPJgU-dpCPWCAEP2tfJQ
Former President Trump responds to the House Committee investigating the Capitol riot.https://t.co/n91CXyyjYn
— FOX News Radio (@foxnewsradio) October 14, 2022
#BREAKING: Former President Donald Trump issued his latest attack against the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, just one day after the panel held its final public hearing before the midterm elections.https://t.co/oBBjVq3lyB
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 14, 2022
The Washington Examiner provided more details:
Former President Donald Trump issued his latest attack against the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, just one day after the panel held its final public hearing before the midterm elections.
In a 14-page statement issued Friday, the former president denounced the panel as being made up of “highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs” and criticized Congress for funding the investigation into the Capitol riot despite being what he calls a “Charade and Witch Hunt.” The statement also comes after the Jan. 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump to offer testimony to the panel as part of its investigation.
“The double standard of the Unselects between what has taken place on the ‘RIGHT,’ and what has taken place with Radical Left, lawless groups such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and others, is startling and will never be acceptable, even to those who will be writing the history of what you have done to America,” Trump said in a statement.
Here is President Trump’s response:
Trump responds pic.twitter.com/WoCmapYbaa
— CUKFree 🇺🇸 🐊 🐍 (@CukFree) October 14, 2022
Trump reacts to Jan. 6 committee subpoena vote:
"Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?…" pic.twitter.com/X4WYDZk1hN
— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/WayneDupreeShow/status/1580926994794958849?s=20&t=wZiPJgU-dpCPWCAEP2tfJQ
So House can now call Obama to testify under oath on:
Benghazi
IRS abuse
Fast and Furious
Spying on Trump
Cash to Iran terror regime
Arms to jihadists in Syria
Solyndra
You can keep your doctor
Unlawful amnesty
Clinton crime cover up
Unmaskings
Biden scandals?— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) October 14, 2022
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