Lawyers representing the Proud Boys plan to subpoena Trump to testify in the January 6 trial.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four other members have been charged with seditious conspiracy.
"We're calling on Donald Trump to take the stand," a defense attorney said.
Lawyers for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four other defendants plan to subpoena former President Donald Trump, seeking his testimony in the high-profile trial that charges the far-right group's members with conspiring to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 win on January 6, 2021.
"Donald Trump called on patriots to stop the steal. We're calling on Donald Trump to take the stand," Norm Pattis, an attorney representing Proud Boys member Joseph Biggs, said Thursday, according to Politico and the CBS-affiliate WUSA9.
Forcing Trump to testify as a witness would require approval from Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee presiding over the case in Washington, DC's federal district court. Proud Boys' lawyers are seeking the federal government's help to serve the subpoena, according to Politico.
For more than a month, the Justice Department has argued that the defendants — Tarrio, Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola — plotted to stop the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Biden on January 6. Prosecutors claimed that under Tarrio's leadership, the group banded together to violently storm the Capitol and obstruct the 2020 electoral certification process — a serious and...
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