January 18, 2022, 06:38pm.
The House issued subpoenas on Tuesday to four Trump campaign allies and attorneys who helped lead the former president's fight to overturn his 2020 election loss, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
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The committee instructed Giuliani, Powell, Ellis and Epshteyn to give testimony and turn over records next month.
The committee said that Giuliani, Powell, Ellis and Epshteyn were involved in attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of election results.
Forbes reached out to the four ex-Trump staffers.
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The January 6 committee has subpoenaed dozens of Trump staffers and outside allies, aiming to investigate both the Capitol attack itself and the weeks of voter fraud allegations that preceded it. The subpoenas are tied to Trump's efforts to sue his way to a second term, led by Giuliani, and several other lawyers that Ellis once described as an "elite strike force." The team failed to overturn any of Biden's state-level wins, but they frequently repeated claims of widespread fraud. In particular, Giuliani and Ellis traveled the country trying to convince swing-state legislators to toss out Biden's victories, and Powell repeated the bizarre theory that a shadowy group of foreign actors rigged the nation's voting machines to counteract Trump's "landslide" win. Ellis wrote memos about how congressional Republicans could reverse Biden's win, and Giuliani asked the Department of Homeland Security if it could seize voting machines. The House panel is interested in him because he appeared with Giuliani, Ellis and Powell at a November 2020 press conference to promote false voter fraud allegations, and ahead of January 6, 2021, he and other Trump loyalists attended planning meetings.
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