According to The Associated Press, members of the House panel investigating the Capitol riot said that they have enough evidence for the Department of Justice to indict former President Donald Trump for trying to undermine the election of Joe Biden.
The leader of the House Intelligence Committee said that he wanted to see the department look into Trump's attempts to stop the certification of Biden's win.
He said on ABC News that he would like to see the Justice Department investigate any criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump. There are some actions that I don't think the Justice Department is looking into.
The committee held its first public hearing last week where the panel members explained what they had learned about the riot and Trump's role in provoking it. The members spoke of the former president's insistence that the election had been stolen from him despite a number of advisers telling him that there was no evidence of fraud.
In this week's upcoming hearings, the panel is going to reveal evidence pointing to Trump and several of his advisors who tried to spread misinformation and push the Justice Department to endorse Trump's election claims.
The members of the panel pointed to US Attorney General Garland as a key factor in determining whether or not Trump will be prosecuted.
The panel made the case for why Trump may have violated several criminal statutes according to the congressman.
"I think that he knows, his staff knows, the US attorneys know, what's at stake here," he said. I think they are paying close attention to precedent in history as well as the facts of this case.
Garland has not yet said how he will handle the committee's findings since Trump has been teasing a potential White House campaign.
A federal judge in California ruled in March that Trump likely obstructed Congress when he tried to stop the certification of the electoral college results.
According to a New York Times report from April, the ruling prompted some panel members and staffers to call for a prosecution for obstructing a congressional proceeding and conspiring to defraud the American people.
There was no wrongdoing in the election, according to Trump.
The department should look into the evidence of criminal conduct.
"After the evidence is accumulated by the Justice Department, it needs to make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the president's guilt," he said. They need to be investigated if there is credible evidence.
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