The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has issued a subpoena to retired Army Col. James “Phil” Waldron, directing him to appear before the committee and testify to his role in creating a presentation on how Republicans could subvert the 2020 election, as well as his work with Trump’s legal team in spreading election lies from state to state.  “Mr. Waldron reportedly claimed to have visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election, spoken to Mark Meadows ‘maybe 8 to 10 times,’ and briefed several members of Congress on election fraud theories. He also publicly acknowledged contributing to the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that was given to, or described for, Republican Members of Congress on the eve of January 6th. According to reporting, he also participated in meetings at the Willard Hotel in early January 2021.” The information that’s been made available by the select committee over the last two weeks has filled in gaps, tied together information that previously seemed disconnected, and provided a very different view of what happened to create the insurgency on Jan. 6. What originally seemed like a collection of flailing efforts being pursued by Trump’s legal team, by White House advisers, and by Republicans in Congress, has been revealed as a much more unified effort—one single coup scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election by simply refusing the count the votes from states where Joe Biden won. Read more