Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas seeking information on alternate elector plots – By Daniel Uria (UPI) / February 15, 2022
Feb. 15 (UPI) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol issued a new wave of subpoenas Tuesday seeking information about efforts to appoint illegitimate electors in states carried by President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
The committee subpoenaed two members of former President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and three Republican officials from battleground election states.
“The Select Committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement. “We’re seeking records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who we believe have relevant information about the planning and implementation of those plans.”
In its statement, the committee said Trump’s campaign director, Michael A. Roman, and deputy director, Gary Michael Brown, took part in efforts to “promote allegations of fraud in the November 2020 election and encourage state legislators to appoint false ‘alternate’ slates of electors.”.
