House Select Committee Unable To Serve Subpoena To Former Trump Aide In Person

Dan Scavino, a former Donald Trump aide, seems to be ignoring the House select committee that is investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol as they have reportedly been unable to track him down to serve the subpoena to him in person.

A few weeks ago, subpoenas were issued for three close allies of Trump and Scavino, and they were requested to submit documents by Thursday and depose by Oct. 15, reported CNN.

Scavino, who served as the White House deputy chief of staff during Trump's presidency, is yet to comment on it. An unnamed source joked that the committee should just tweet the subpoena to Scavino as he has been actively trolling the panel on the platform.

The committee mentioned in their letter to Scavino that due to his close bond and long duration of working with Trump, he can give useful information related to conversations the former President had on Jan. 5. Trump tried to convince members of Congress to not certify the 2020 election--the communication strategy the White House had in the lead up to the Jan. 6 rally and Trump's movements on Jan. 6.

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and former adviser Steve Bannon have been subpoenaed as well. Patel confirmed that he had got the subpoena, and it looks like the committee has been successful in serving subpoenas to the other two allies of the former President as well.

Some of Trump's allies might refuse to comply with the subpoenas, and the committee is prepared for it. The committee is "going to do everything in our power to get them to testify," said Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, who is serving on the panel.

"There is civil, there is criminal referrals that can happen if they refuse, refusing a subpoena from congress is a crime," he shared. Kinzinger added that they are not out to try to hang this around anybody's neck, they simply want answers.

Meanwhile, Trump's former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who has been making headlines for her book "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House," said Tuesday that she didn't vote for him in last year's election.

In her book, Grisham, who also served as East Wing communications director and chief of staff to former First Lady Melania Trump during the Trump administration, wrote that she found herself wishing there was another candidate from the Republican party to vote for in the election.

When she was asked if she voted for Trump in 2020, she said that she did not and wrote in a different candidate, but refused to name that person, reported CNN. Grisham, who resigned on Jan. 6, said that she would testify before the House committee investigating the attack if asked to do so.