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Hugo Lowell in Washington

US Capitol attack committee subpoenas Rudy Giuliani and other Trump lawyers

Rudy Giuliani led Donald Trump’s legal team in the former president’s efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
Rudy Giuliani led Donald Trump’s legal team in the former president’s efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. Photograph: Robert Bumsted/AP

The US congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack has issued a blitz of subpoenas to some of Donald Trump’s top lawyers – including Rudy Giuliani – as it examines whether the former president oversaw a criminal conspiracy on 6 January 2021.

The House panel subpoenaed four of Trump’s legal team on Tuesday: the former president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associate Boris Epshteyn, as well as Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, who all defended Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims as he attempted to overturn the election result.

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