Vox Sentences - A Trump subpoena

The January 6 committee subpoenas Trump; China cracks down on rare protest.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

January 6 panel wants to hear from Trump

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• Thursday, the House Committee investigating January 6 unanimously voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump for testimony about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. [Vox / Andrew Prokop]
• The decision came during the panel’s final hearing before the midterms. Lawmakers tried to show that Trump knew he’d lost the election and tried to spur his supporters to subvert President Joe Biden’s victory. [New York Times / Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer]
• Thursday’s hearing included a new video of congressional leaders pleading for help as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, and evidence the Secret Service received prior warnings about the violence. [Associated Press / Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, and Eric Tucker]
• Trump hasn’t said he would comply with the subpoena. But on Friday, he sent a letter to the committee chairman criticizing the panel’s work and repeating false claims the election was rigged. [Washington Post / Perry Stein, Tom Hamburger, and Spencer S. Hsu]
• After months of investigations and thousands of interviews, the committee will issue a final report on its findings in December. [NBC News]

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Vox’s Ben Jacobs explains what the January 6 hearings accomplished. [Vox / Ben Jacobs]

Rare one-person protest captivates Beijing

• Thursday, an unidentified person hung two banners from a Beijing bridge criticizing the country’s zero-Covid policy and calling for the removal of Chinese President Xi Jinping. [Washington Post / Christian Shepherd]
• While there has been much frustration with strict Covid testing requirements and lockdowns that have roiled the Chinese economy, it is rare for a public protest to criticize these policies or to call for ousting Xi. [Reuters/ Martin Quin Pollard and Eduardo Baptista]
• Chinese internet censors removed all images and posts related to the protest after the footage began spreading online. Some tried to discover the protester’s identity, while others praised his actions. [BBC / Yvette Tan]
• The banners were set up three days before the Chinese Communist Party congress, where Xi will be given an unprecedented third term. [Al Jazeera]

Friday, two anti-fossil fuel protesters threw tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting and glued themselves to the wall of London’s National Gallery. [CNN / Christian Edwards]

• French railway workers and civil servants voted to join oil workers in striking after the government tried to order refinery staff back to work. [France 24]
• Friday, Elon Musk said SpaceX couldn’t continue indefinitely funding Starlink terminals essential to military operations in Ukraine, and asked the US to foot the bill. [NYT / Cassandra Vinograd and Helene Cooper]
• UK Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Treasury chief on Friday and canceled tax cuts that had plunged the British economy into turmoil. [AP / Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless]

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“We want to eat, not do coronavirus tests; reform, not the Cultural Revolution. We want freedom, not lockdowns; elections, not rulers. We want dignity, not lies. Be citizens, not enslaved people.”

[One of the large white banners hung from Sitong Bridge in Beijing / Washington Post]

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