{"id":1533171,"date":"2022-06-29T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533171"},"modified":"2022-06-29T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:05:06","slug":"jan-6-panel-subpoenas-former-white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-panel-subpoenas-former-white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjan-6-panel-subpoenas-former-white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House select committee investigating the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has subpoenaed former White House Counsel\u00a0Pasquale \u201cPat\u201d Cipollone for deposition testimony on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Select Committee\u2019s investigation has revealed evidence that Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump\u2019s activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded,\u201d said\u00a0the Democrat-led panel\u2019s chair and vice chair, Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wyo.),\u00a0in a <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/select-committee-subpoenas-pat-cipollone\">joint statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Select Committee appreciates Mr. Cipollone\u2019s earlier informal engagement with our investigation, the committee needs to hear from him on the record, as other former White House counsels have done in other congressional investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny concerns Mr. Cipollone has about the institutional prerogatives of the office he previously held are clearly outweighed by the need for his testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel seeks to compel\u00a0Cipollone to appear on July 6, after the former White House counsel informally met with them in April but was not deposed.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to\u00a0Cipollone, Thompson said the panel had \u201ccredible evidence\u201d that Cipollone had knowledge regarding Trump\u2019s awareness and involvement in certain activities and conspiracies to subvert the 2020 vote certification process (<a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/2022-06-29%20Cipollone%20Letter.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Thompson wrote that the panel was \u201cleft with no choice\u201d but to subpoena Cipollone, who they said was \u201cuniquely positioned to testify\u201d but has \u201cdeclined to cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The subpoena was issued after\u00a0Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified to the committee on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/former-meadows-aid-jan-6-testimony-denied-by-trump-secret-service_4564520.html\">Secret Service members have disputed<\/a> some of Hutchinson\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson told the panel that\u00a0Cipollone raised legal concerns around Trump\u2019s involvement in activities on Jan. 6 and that he urged the White House to take certain actions.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing Hutchinson\u2019s testimony, Cheney took to Twitter to call on\u00a0Cipollone to testify on the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House select committee investigating the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has subpoenaed former White House Counsel\u00a0Pasquale \u201cPat\u201d Cipollone for deposition testimony on Wednesday. \u201cThe Select Committee\u2019s investigation has revealed evidence that Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump\u2019s activities on January 6th and in the days [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}