Jan. 6 committee subpoenas author of debunked election-fraud PowerPoint sent to Meadows

The summons asks Waldron to turn over documents to the panel by Jan. 10 and appear for a deposition the week after. Waldron could not immediately be reached for comment.

Waldron’s subpoena comes as the panel zeroes in on the Trump White House’s countenancing of election fraud claims. Earlier this week, the full House voted to hold former chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he refused to testify before the select committee.

The panel had hoped to ask Meadows about the Waldron PowerPoint, which he received on Jan. 5 amid intensifying last-ditch efforts by Trump allies to overturn the election. Meadows turned over the Waldron document during a brief period of cooperation with the committee.

Waldron also participated in state-level hearings held by Republican allies of Trump in the aftermath of the Nov. 3, 2020, election, testifying about discredited claims of fraud that Trump seized on to assert that the election had been stolen from him.

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