Top January 6 rally organizer deposed by the House Capitol-riot committee says he thinks Trump will be subpoenaed

• Ali Alexander predicted that Trump will be subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee.

• The committee has already subpoenaed dozens of Trump officials and allies in recent months.

• Trump failed to block the committee from accessing White House records using executive privilege.

A top organizer of the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally predicted that former President Donald Trump would be subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.

Ali Alexander, who on December 9 took part in an eight-hour closed-door deposition before the committee, told Infowars on Tuesday that he believes Trump would be summoned following efforts to connect him to the activities of rally organizers.

"They want a nexus — is what my lawyers call it — between the people who were violent, unjustified violent, or vandalism and then you and me and the activists," Alexander told the Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

"So that they can connect it to a Trump staffer and then Trump. Folks, Trump will be subpoenaed by this committee. Breaking news: Trump will entirely be subpoenaed by this committee."

The "Stop the Steal" rally partly organized by Alexander had immediately preceded the Capitol riot, which left five people dead.

Trump had told a crowd assembled at that rally that the 2020 election was stolen from him and encouraged them to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell."

The committee has in recent months subpoenaed more than 100 people including dozens of Trump officials and allies.

They include the former Trump White House officials Stephen Miller and Kayleigh McEnany, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone. Jones himself was also subpoenaed.

Trump sought to invoke executive privilege to block the committee from securing White House records, but that attempt was rejected by a federal appeals court.

A set of six subpoenas issued earlier in December included the Ohio congressional candidate Max Miller, a former Trump White House and campaign aide. They appeared to indicate efforts by the committee to draw direct connections between the rally organizers and Trump's inner circle.

Max Miller helped organize the rally and met with Trump in the West Wing to discuss who would be speaking, Insider's Eliza Relman and Sonam Sheth reported.

"Some of the witnesses we subpoenaed today apparently worked to stage the rallies on January 5th and 6th, and some appeared to have had direct communication with the former President regarding the rally at the Ellipse directly preceding the attack on the US Capitol," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the committee, said in a December 10 statement.

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