Liz Cheney says Donald Trump won’t be able to turn Jan 6 testimony into a ‘circus’
Donald Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, will face trial in New York today on allegations that it helped executives avoid income taxes on their pay. The trial is part of the same case that has ensnared the organization’s CFO, longtime Trump associate Allen Weisselberg.
The trial comes just after he was officially subpoenaed by the January 6 select committee. The former president has been given until 4 November to provide the committee with documents, and it is aiming to take “one or more days of deposition testimony” circa 14 November.
Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney has vowed she will not let him turn his testimony into a “circus”.
The subpoena topped off a week of bad news for the former president. After a judge found that Mr Trump had signed a false statement regarding election fraud in the 2020 election, he was deposed for the defamation case against him brought by E Jean Carroll, who accuses him of rape. Meanwhile, his former adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail.
Nevertheless, on Saturday evening, Mr Trump flew to Texas in his “newly inaugurated Trump Force One” Boeing 757 plane for a raucous “Save America” rally
