Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena to former President Trump

The House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot formally issued a subpoena to former President Trump Friday, six days after voting unanimously to do so at their most recent public meeting.

The subpoena is likely to kick off weeks of additional legal wrangling involving the 45th president, who is already embroiled in a court fight with the Justice Department over classified documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago resort in August.

The subpoena orders Trump to produce all “relevant documentary material” and to participate in “one or more days of deposition testimony” starting on Nov. 14 “and continuing on subsequent days as necessary.”

An initial report by Fox News indicated that the former president “loves the idea of testifying” before the committee, but Trump has already hired the Dhillon Law Group to handle his engagements with the panel regarding the riots, Politico reported Thursday.