Pelosi says Trump not ‘man enough to show up’ to testify on January 6

Lawmakers probing the 2021 attack on the US Capitol said on 22 October that they had issued the former president with a subpoena to give evidence on his involvement in the violence. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

As jury selection begins in a criminal trial of the Trump Organization for tax fraud, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has taunted Donald Trump with being too cowardly to testify in another legal challenge bearing down on him.

The House speaker goaded the former president in an MSNBC interview over the subpoena that was served on Friday, ordering him to testify under oath before the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack. “I don’t think he’s man enough to show up,” Pelosi said.