Trump Delaying Jan. 6 Subpoena a 'Sign of Weakness,' Glenn Kirschner Says

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to delay complying with the House select committee's subpoena is a "sign of weakness," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Friday.

The committee investigating last year's Capitol riot subpoenaed the former president last month, and demanded that he testify under oath and submit documents related to its probe. Trump is being investigated into whether or not he played a role in the insurrection after a group of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Trump was given until November 4 to provide the requested documents, however the select committee extended the deadline on Friday.

"Donald Trump is always looking for delay and here we go again. He's got more delay and it feels like a sign of weakness," Kirschner said during an interview on MSNBC's The 11th Hour.

The committee released a statement on its website on Friday, saying "we have received correspondence from the former President and his counsel in connection with the Select Committee's subpoena. We have informed the former President's counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week."

The ex-president is, however, still under subpoena for deposition testimony on November 14, the committee added.

"It was a lawfully issued subpoena. They asked for documents relevant to their probe, to their legislative mission, and he basically blew them off," Kirschner said, adding that the former president is "goading" the committee to push them to make another move.

The former federal prosecutor added that the committee's next move should be to "enforce the subpoena one way or another."

One of Trump's attorneys, Alina Habba, said last month that she would recommend the former president to testify to the House committee because he has "nothing to hide."

"I would recommend that he cooperate because when you have nothing to hide, that's what I always recommend," Habba told Newsmax. "He has no issue being deposed, even though the left-wing media would like to pretend that he does. He has no issue being subpoenaed and answering questions about what happened that day, and he should."

"What he did was very public, and it was really nothing other than to say to go out peacefully," Habba said, in an apparent reference to Trump's speech that he gave in Washington, D.C. on the day of the riot, where he told his supporters that if they didn't "fight like hell" they wouldn't "have a country anymore."

Trump is rallying on Saturday in Pennsylvania to support Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano ahead of Tuesday's midterm election.

The former president is also holding a rally in Miami on Sunday and will hold another rally on Monday in Ohio to support GOP U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's media office for comment.