GOP questions Trump subpoena timing: 'Made-for-TV prop'

foxnews.com:

Republicans are questioning the timing of the January 6 Committee's subpoena of former President Trump – more than a year after it started its investigation and just weeks before Republicans are expected to disband the committee if they win back the House. "The Select Committee’s unenforceable subpoena is just another made-for-TV prop," Rep.

Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital. "Everything the January 6th Committee does is a performance," said Banks, whose appointment to the committee was blocked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "The good news is that in a few months, they'll no longer be able to make a mockery of Congress’s investigative authority." The committee made a last-second change to its scheduled hearing Thursday by making it a "business meeting," which allowed it to hold a unanimous vote in favor of issuing a subpoena for Trump's testimony.

The House January 6 Committee voted Thursday to subpoena former President Trump.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion," said committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. "Every American is entitled to those answers, so we can act now to protect our republic." However, the subpoena vote happened just two-and-a-half months before the end of the current Congress, and Republicans are expected to scrap the committee if they take the majority.That is an extremely short amount of time if the committee intends to go through a legal battle to compel Trump to appear.

It took the House more than two years to force testimony from former White House Counsel Don McGahn in connection with Russia and the 2016 election.