WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday subpoenaed two former White House officials for documents and testimony, a day after another former official rebuffed the panel’s subpoena at the White House’s direction.
The committee sent subpoenas to former White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of President Trump’s closest advisers, and Annie Donaldson, who served as chief of staff to former White House counsel Don McGahn. Both Hicks and Donaldson spoke to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators. Donaldson kept notes during her tenure at the White House, according to the Mueller report.
The subpoenas direct Hicks to testify on June 19 and Donaldson to do so on June 24. Both were ordered to turn over documents by June 4.
McGahn on Tuesday declined to appear before the committee, after the White House directed him to ignore the panel’s subpoena for testimony. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D- N.Y., said earlier Tuesday that he would go to court if necessary to obtain McGahn’s testimony.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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