Kinzinger: McCarthy and Jordan should face Capitol attack subpoenas – but maybe not Trump - The Guardian

Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the US Capitol assault, will support subpoenas for testimony from Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader, and senior members of the congressional GOP including Jim Jordan, a prominent Trump ally from Ohio.

“I would support subpoenas to anybody that can shed light” on events on 6 January, Kinzinger said on Sunday, on ABC’s This Week.

“If that’s the leader, that’s the leader; if it’s anybody that talked to the president that can provide us that information.”.

He also suggested a subpoena for Donald Trump himself was unlikely, given the continuing circus around the former president and Trump’s habit of lying.

“I want to know what the president was doing every moment of that day after he said, ‘I’m going to walk with you to the Capitol,’” Kinzinger told ABC, referring to Trump’s remarks at a rally near the White House on 6 January, before Congress was stormed?

Kinzinger continued: “After [Alabama representative] Mo Brooks stood up and said ‘We’re gonna kick backside and take names, today’s the day that patriots take the country back from other people’, I want to know what they were doing because that’s going to be important.

“I want to know, you know if the national guard took five or six hours to get to Capitol Hill, did the president make any calls.

Asked if he would support a subpoena for Trump, he said: “We may not even have to talk to Donald Trump to get the information.