Interesting timing for the jaundiced Jan. 6 select committee of one-sided members to issue former President Donald Trump a subpoena. TV’s Gomer Pyle had a famous, countrified line, “Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise!”
The symbolic effort was not a well-kept secret, and it is, according to Politico, a “step that is unlikely to compel Trump’s testimony before the panel dissolves at the end of the year.…