Who are the Trump allies that the committee investigating the Capitol robbery has summoned for questioning?

The committee of the United States House of Representatives, created to investigate the fateful assault on Capitol, issued last Monday a series of subpoenas to question several allies of the former president Donald Trump on his participation in the events recorded on January 6.

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The six characters mentioned are the lawyer who advised the former president to affirm that the elections were fraudulent, John Eastman; the former national security adviser, Michael Flynn; Trump’s former campaign spokesman, Jason miller; the director of Trump’s reelection campaign, William Stepien; the former chief of police in New York, Bernard Kerik; and the executive assistant, Angela McCallum.

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The hearings where they are questioned are expected to take place between the end of November and the first half of December. According to the CNBC television network, McCallum would be the first cited, scheduled for November 30. Then there would be Kerik (December 3), Flynn (December 6), Eastman (December 8) and Miller (December 10); being the last appointment for Stepien, scheduled for December 13.

“In the days leading up to the January 6 attack, the former president’s allies and closest advisers launched a disinformation campaign about the elections and planned ways to stop the Electoral College’s counting of votes.”Bennie Thompson, chairman of the parliamentary committee, said in a statement about the mentioned subpoenas.

Who are these characters and what events have caused the United States Congress to link them to the assault on the Capitol?

John Eastman

Until a few months ago, Eastman was a respected law professor at the prestigious Chapman University. However, between the allegations of unsubstantiated fraud presented by Donald Trump and the assault on the Capitol, he ended up becoming a mass agitator who must now answer to the legislators of his country.

Conservatively, he has participated in two elections in the past, first in 1990 when he ran for the California Congress for the Republican Party, and then in 2010 when the California Attorney General’s office did the same. In both cases, however, he was not elected.

Eastman was in charge of designing the legal strategy on which Trump relied to denounce that his electoral defeat had been a fraud and that his vice president, Mike Pence, had the power to annul the election.

Shortly after, an email that Eastman sent to Pence’s lawyer was leaked where he blamed them for what happened on Capitol Hill for “not acting in time.”

The most serious accusation against him, however, points to the meetings he held at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington DC, during the days before the assault. On the other hand, his participation in the rally held near the White House just before the attack is also being investigated.

Attorney John Eastman, left, with former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani during a rally prior to the Capitol storming, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo: Jim Bourg / Reuters)

Michael Flynn

The discredited former Homeland Security adviser during the Trump administration, Michael Flynn, has also been subpoenaed by the investigative committee. It should be remembered that Flynn was fired from the position in 2017 for having lied to the FBI in the framework of the Russiagate, but was pardoned in November 2020 by Trump.

The committee is now investigating the meeting that Flynn would have attended on December 18 in the Oval Office of the White House, the same one in which the option for Trump to invoke special powers in the face of alleged electoral fraud would have been discussed.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is caught protesting the results of the presidential elections on December 12, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

William Stepien

Bill Stepien, as he is better known in the Republican political circle, is a reputed election campaign consultant. For this reason, Trump chose him as director of his, when he sought re-election in 2020.

His role within the team with which Trump sought to obtain a new mandate has been the main motivation for the committee to summon him to testify. His participation in the meetings held at the Willard Hotel is also being investigated.

Bill Stepien was the campaign manager for the re-election of Donald Trump in 2020. (Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP)

Jason miller

Political communication specialist Jason Miller served as a spokesperson during Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

According to the committee, Miller also participated in meetings at the Willard Hotel prior to the assault on the Capitol. Those same meetings, according to lawmakers, were also attended by Trump’s adviser, Steve Bannon, and the former president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

Bernard Kerik

Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was charged with leading the department during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. However, his reputation collapsed in 2009, when he was sentenced to 48 months in jail in federal prison after being found guilty of 8 counts of tax evasion and perjury upon being nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security.

In February 2020, Kerik received a presidential pardon from Trump.

The committee investigates Kerik’s participation in meetings held at the Willard Hotel, where he accompanied Eastman in meetings with other allies of the former president.

Angela McCallum

McCallum is the youngest figure on this list. She graduated from Clemson University in 2019 and interned at the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs before being hired to be part of Trump’s re-election campaign.

Within the team, he became the National Executive Assistant for Election Day Operations.

The summons to McCallum is due to the fact that two legislators denounced in December 2020 that different deputies of both houses had received calls from Trump’s campaign team asking him to invalidate the electoral result by claiming to have evidence of fraud that they never presented.

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