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The House Committee’s January 6 final report asserts that Donald Trump committed a criminal offense in a “multipart plot” to overturn the legitimate outcome of the 2020 presidential election. and did not act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, ending an extraordinary 18 months. the investigation into the former president and the violent uprising two years ago.
The 814-page report was released Thursday after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents.
Witnesses – from many trumpethis closest aides in law enforcement against some of the rioters themselves — detailing Trump’s actions in the weeks leading up to the uprising and his wide-ranging pressure campaign aimed at overturning the defeat has directly affected those who mercilessly shoved the police and smashed windows and doors. Capital on January 6, 2021.
The central cause was “a man,” the report said: Trump.
The uprising seriously threatens democracy and “puts the lives of American legislators in jeopardy,” the nine-member panel concluded.
In the opening of the report, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the findings should be a “clear call to all Americans: guard us with vigilance. Democracy and vote only for those who are obligated to defend our Constitution.”
The report’s eight resulting chapters tell much of the same story as this summer’s panel hearings – describing many aspects of the remarkable plan Trump and his advisers devised. to try to nullify the victory of President Joe Biden.
The lawmakers described his pressure on states, federal officials, lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to either fool the system or break the law.
The committee said Trump’s repeated, false claims about widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, and amplified on social media, based on the distrust of the government he nurtured during his four years in power. And he did little to stop them when they resorted to violence and stormed the Capitol.
The massive, damning report comes as Trump is running for re-election and also faces multiple federal investigations, including investigations into his role in the uprising and the presence of classified documents on his property in Florida.
This week has been particularly difficult for him, as a House of Commons committee is expected to release his tax returns after years of fighting to keep them private. .
And Trump has been blamed by Republicans for performing worse than expected in the midterm elections, leaving him in his most politically vulnerable position since winning the election. 2016 election
It is also a final act for House Democrats, who will cede power to Republicans in less than two weeks and have spent most of their four years in office trying to figure out what to do. investigate Trump.
Democrats have impeached Trump twice, the second time a week after the uprising. He was acquitted by the Senate both times. Other investigations led by Democrats have investigated his finances, businesses, foreign relations and family.
On Monday, a panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans formally referred their investigation to the Justice Department, recommending that it investigate the former president on four counts, including: even supporting an uprising. While the criminal referrals have no legal validity, they are the final statement from the commission after a year-and-a-half investigation.
Trump attempted to discredit the report, calling committee members “thugs and scoundrels” as he continued to falsely argue his 2020 defeat.
Responding to the jury’s criminal charges, Trump said: “These people don’t understand that when they chased me, freedom-loving people gathered around me. It gives me strength.”
The committee has also begun releasing hundreds of transcripts of its interviews. On Thursday, the committee released transcripts of two closed-door interviews with former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified in person at one of the televised hearings over the summer and detailed clearly Trump’s efforts to influence election results and election apathy. violence when it happens.
In two interviews, both conducted after her July hearing, she described how many of Trump’s allies, including her attorney, pressured her to do not say too much in committee interviews.
(AP)
