Trump’s spokesman said he collaborated with the U.S. House Panel Review Jan. 6 | Top News

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WASHINGTON (Reuters)-A current spokesman for former U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said in a court filing that he had fully cooperated with the congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The spokeswoman, Taylor Budowich, said in a lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, that she produced more than 1,700 pages of documents and gave nearly four hours of sworn testimony to the panel of House of Representatives.

Budowich, in a recent deposition, answered questions about funding and planning a Trump speech to supporters near the White House on Jan. 6 that preceded the violence in the Capitol that day.

Budowich’s lawsuit sought a court order barring the House committee from having access to his financial records at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

“The subpoena seeks personal financial material that is unrelated to any conceivable law and is not relevant to any alleged purpose of the Select Committee,” Budowich said in the case.

A spokesman for Jan. 6 Select Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Budowich’s lawsuit is the latest in a flood of litigation by the committee’s targets seeking to prevent it from enforcing its subpoenas for information, but it is the first lawsuit to focus on a subpoena for financial records.

This week, former Trump adviser Michael Flynn and right-wing radio host Alex Jones filed separate lawsuits alleging the Select Committee was not legally formed and its subpoenas for their testimony were therefore against the law.

The appeals court rejected that argument, ruling on Dec. 9 that the committee was valid and entitled to see White House records that Trump tried to protect from public view. Trump on Thursday appealed that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The committee issued more than 50 subpoenas and heard from more than 300 witnesses in its investigation into the attack.

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Mary Milliken, Robert Birsel)

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