Capitol riot committee subpoenas 'Stop the Steal' organizer who boasted of 'scheming' with GOP lawmakers

The House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots has subpoenaed "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander, who boasted of "scheming" with multiple congressional Republicans to put "maximum pressure" on Congress to not certify the results of the 2020 election.

News of the subpoena was first reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney.

The Washington Post reported earlier this year that Alexander, in a since-deleted video, said that he plotted with Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to get Congress to vote against certifying the 2020 election.

"We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting," he said in the video, while adding that the plan was to "change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside."

Once Trump supporters breached the Capitol, however, members of Congress were evacuated and the certification of the election was delayed by several hours.

The Capitol riot also resulted in former President Donald Trump getting impeached for a second time, while 57 senators voted to convict him in the United States Senate.

Read the committee's full letter to Alexander below.