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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Could a judge soon force Trump to testify about Jan 6?

President Donald Trump is not immune from a sweeping federal lawsuit seeking to hold the president accountable for violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and he now has to answer why he shouldn’t be forced to testify.

A long-running civil suit from Democratic members of Congress and law enforcement officers who faced a mob of Trump’s supporters accuses the president of leading a “coordinated campaign” to incite mob violence that threatened to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.

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