“You have not gone after the people that created the fraud, but rather great American patriots who questioned it, as is their constitutional right,” Mr. Trump wrote in the screed. “These people have had their lives ruined as your committee sits back and basks in the glow.”
Instead of providing what he claimed was evidence, he included appendices filled with assertions of widespread election irregularities that have been debunked, some by his own former attorney general, William P. Barr, and other top Justice Department officials.
“A large percentage of American citizens, including almost the entire Republican Party, feel that the election was rigged and stolen,” Mr. Trump wrote, without mentioning that his false claims were the reason the lies spread among the populace and have come to define the G.O.P.
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He included aerial photographs purporting to show enormous throngs of people on the National Mall on Jan. 6, 2021 — reminiscent of the images that the White House released after his inauguration in 2017 — and again complained of what he claimed was media censorship that downplayed the size of the crowd.
The letter emerged as the House committee, which voted unanimously on Thursday to issue a subpoena to Mr. Trump, was at work preparing the demand, which would list specific documents that the former president must turn over and a date by when he must testify. People close to the committee’s work said the panel was poised to issue the subpoena as soon as Monday.
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