Trump slams ‘sham committee’ as January 6 panel subpoenas him to testify

Former president posted video to Truth Social attacking the work of the panel

Donald Trump took to Truth Social to slam the January 6 House panel as a ‘sham committee’ after it voted to subpoena the former president to testify before it.

The former president attacked the nine-member committee after they demanded that he appears before it for questioning over the 2020 insurrection they have been probing for the last year.

“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? 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?” he wrote on Truth Social.

“The Unselect Committee knowingly failed to examine the massive voter fraud which took place during the 2020 Presidential Election - The reason for what took place on January 6th.”

Mr Trump also posted a video attacking the

“Why does the unselect committee never talk about the peaceful crowd at the enormous January 6 speech? Or the overwhelming evidence of election fraud?” a caption over the video stated.

The video showed footage of the Trump rally that took place in front of the White Houe before his supporters marched and forced their way into the US Capitol.

It also included the section of the speech in which Mr Trump told his supporters to go to Congres and “peacefully and patriotically” make “your voices heard.”

And then it pivoted into Mr Trump’s fraudulent claims of election fraud in his election loss to Joe Biden, which has been rejected by courts across the country, including the US Supreme Court.

The video ended, with the phrase, “the sham committee is ignoring the truth” as a final caption.

Earlier, Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican, told the committee hearing that it was essential for Mr Trump to be called to testify and their duty “to our country, and our children and our constitution”.

“We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. And every American is entitled to those answers,” she said.

Mr Trump also seemingly responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to reject his emergency request for it to intervene in his legal battle over classified documents.

The justices, three of whom were appointed by Mr Trump, denied his request that a special master should be allowed to review particular classified papers taken from his Florida home by federal agents in August.

There were no noted dissents in the unsigned order that was released by the country’s highest court on Thursday. It would have taken at least five justices agreeing to take up the case.

In response, he reposted a story about George Bush’s White House “losing” 22 million emails.