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The January 6 House Committee made four criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department on Monday, concluding its 18-month-long investigation into Trump's efforts to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Following its last public hearing in the Canon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol leave. The photo was taken by Mandel NGAN of Agence France-Presse.
There is enough evidence to charge Trump and others with obstruction of an official proceeding of the U.S. government, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., making false statements to the federal government and engaging in an insurrection.
The committee referred five people to the Department of Justice for criminal investigations.
The congressmen were referred to the House Ethics Committee because they refused to comply with subpoenas.
It will be up to the Justice Department and House Ethics Committee to decide on the committee's recommendations.
The committee on Monday authorized the release of a 154-page summary on its findings that detail its reasoning for the referrals and lay out findings that show Trump "purposely disseminated false allegations of fraud" that led his supporters to storm the Capitol.
Bennie Thompson said that if the faith in our election system is broken, so is our democracy. Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, but he tried to stay in office through a multi-part scheme to overturn the results and prevent the transfer of power. He summoned a group of angry people to Washington and told them to fight in the capitol.
The final hearing of the nine-member panel began with a video showing key parts of the investigation, which included interviews with more than 1000 witnesses. One of the most revealing testimonies was that of Cassidy Hutchinson, who provided vivid detail of Trump's anger surrounding the events of January 6 and his allies' attempts to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election. After William Barr said there was no evidence of voter fraud, Trump shattered a plate in the dining room. On January 6, 2021, Trump lunged at his driver because the secret service wouldn't allow him to go to the Capitol, according to Hutchinson. The contents of Ornato's conversation have not been made public. Barr testified that he told Trump his election fraud claims were a lie. Trump's daughter said she agreed with Barr's assessment. He overturned thousands of text messages that showed how Trump's allies, including the wife of a Supreme Court justice, urged him to invalidate the results of the election.
According to multiple reports, the final report from the committee is expected to be issued later this week. The committee will detail Trump's alleged efforts to sow distrust among voters about the election process, his schemes to pressure federal and state officials to invalidate the results and his role in inciting the violence that happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The committee is likely to be dissolved next year under a Republican majority in the House, and GOP members are planning to release their own report that challenges the January 6 Committee's findings.
Trump was accused of violating multiple laws on January 6 but refused to say what charges he should face.
The committee may vote to charge Trump with a criminal offense.
The House on January 6 Subpoenaed Trump.
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