The House Jan. 6 committee issued a fresh batch of subpoenas on Monday to five more people, including familiar allies of former President Donald Trump.
Among those subpoenaed by the Capitol riot committee were Roger Stone, conspiracy theorist and alt-right talk show host Alex Jones, Dustin Stockton, his fiance Jennifer Lawrence, and Taylor Budowich. The panel seeks documents and testimony.
“The Select Committee is seeking information about the rallies and subsequent march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob attacking the Capitol and threatening our democracy,” Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said in a statement.
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“We need to know who organized, planned, paid for, and received funds related to those events, as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress,” Thompson added.
Stockton and Lawrence helped plan rallies that took place after the 2020 election, including the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place on Jan. 6 prior to the attack at the Capitol complex, according to the panel. They were also involved in Steve Bannon’s “We Build the Wall” crowdfunding group. Bannon was charged with defrauding donors but was pardoned by Trump during his final hours in the White House.
Bannon, a Trump ally who was the chief strategist in the White House in the first year of Trump’s presidency, is another subpoena target of the Capitol riot panel. He was indicted by a federal grand jury for contempt of Congress on Nov. 12 after he defied a subpoena from the committee.
Budowich “reportedly solicited a 501(c)(4) organization to conduct a social media and radio advertising campaign encouraging attendance at the January 6th Ellipse rally and advancing unsupported claims about the result of the election,” the panel said.
Jones and Stone were tied by the panel to rallies that preceded the Capitol riot.
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Stone, yet another Trump confidant who was pardoned by Trump, issued a statement in response to news that he was subpoenaed.
“I have not yet been served and have not seen the details of what I may be asked to provide or what information they want from me. I have said time and time again that I had no advance knowledge of the events that took place at the Capitol on that day,” he said.
“Any statement, claim, insinuation, or report alleging, or even implying, that I had any involvement in or knowledge, whether advance or contemporaneous, about the commission of any unlawful acts by any person or group in or around the U.S. Capitol,” he added, “or anywhere in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, is categorically false. After the subpoena is served and after my counsel reviews the requests, I will make the determination of how we will proceed.”
