The final report from the House Select Committee on Capitol Hill was released on Thursday.
Three days after the bipartisan committee voted unanimously to refer Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation and possible prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, the damning report was issued.
A formal mechanism for evaluating whether to bar Trump from holding future federal office due to evidence that he violated his constitutional oath to support the U.S. Constitution while engaging in an insurrection is one recommendation.
After announcing that he will seek the Republican nomination for president, the report came.
The committee wrote that "our country has come too far to allow a defeated President to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and opening the door to those in our country who hate and bigotry threaten equality and justice for all Americans."
The committee's vice chair, Liz Cheney, wrote in her own foreword that every President in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority.
January 6, 2021, was the first time in American history that a President refused to transfer power peacefully.
The first chapter of the report is titled "The Big Lie", a reference to Trump's false claims that he had won the election. The chapter states that Trump tried to downplay the election process by suggesting it would be marred by ballot fraud, particularly in connection with mail-in voting.
The second chapter, titled "I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes," details Trump's attempt to subvert the Electoral College, the body that actually chooses the winner of presidential elections on the basis of candidates' popular vote victories.
The title refers to a phone call that Trump had with the Georgia Secretary of State in January of 2021.
Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.The next chapters show how Trump and his allies tried to get alternate slates of electors for him presented to Congress over the actual slates that Biden won.
The decision on who would win the election would be thrown out by the plan to pressure the VP. Republicans could have won the election for Trump if they had held the majority of the state delegations.
The Capitol riot, Trump's refusal to call off the mob, and an analysis of the attack on the Capitol are the last three chapters.
The report states that Donald Trump's own campaign officials told him that his claims of fraud were false.
Donald Trump had senior Justice Department officials investigate the allegations and tell him they were false.
The White House lawyers told him that his fraud claims were not true. Donald Trump's fraud allegations were meant to prey on the patriotism of millions of men and women who love our country.
The Electoral Count Act was recommended by the committee in January. The act would make it clear that the vice president has no power to reject the presidential electors from their states.
The panel said courts should continue to evaluate the conduct of attorneys described in the report.
The report says that attorneys shouldn't have the power to undermine the process for transferring power in the government.
In a recommendation titled "Violent Extremism," the report says that "Federal Agencies with intelligence and security missions, including the Secret Service, should move forward on whole-of-government strategies to combat the threat of violent activity posed by all extremists."
Members of the Oath Keepers militia group among supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, January 6, 2021.The DOJ is investigating whether Trump or others interfered with the transfer of power to Biden.
The panel's chair, Thompson, said in an interview with MSNBC that the Jan. 6 riot would have never happened if Trump hadn't encouraged it. It would have been the normal transfer of power when there is a president.
Thompson said that under no circumstances do you tear the city hall up or the courthouse up. For most Americans, it was beyond imagination. A lot of people can't understand why our people would do that.
The DOJ and House probes are focused on the events of January 6, 2021.
Vice President Mike Pence (R) is escorted by Sgt. at Arms Michael Stenger (L), from the House of Representatives to the Senate at the U.S. Capitol after a challenge was raised during the joint session to certify President-elect Joe Biden, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021.There was a joint session of Congress that was going to confirm Biden's victory in the Electoral College.
The Electoral College slates of several swing states that had given Biden's margin of victory were refused to by Trump and others.
Several of Trump's adult children and his close allies were interviewed by the House committee. Hundreds of thousands of documents were gathered by the panel.
Before and after the 2020 election, Trump spread false claims of election fraud and tried to overturn his loss to Biden. On January 6, 2021, he urged the crowd to march to the Capitol to demand that Congress reverse the election results.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.Trump didn't march to the Capitol but spent hours in the White House as his supporters attacked police officers inside and outside the Capitol. The White House had called on Trump to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, but he didn't.
You are the leader of the troops. There is an assault happening on the Capitol of the United States of America. The House committee heard testimony from Gen. Mark Milley.
I don't know if a call is called. What's nothing? What's the total number of zeros? Milley said something else.
The committee voted Monday to refer Trump to the DOJ for potential prosecution for four crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
A grand jury in Georgia is investigating an attempt by Trump to get Georgia election officials to overturn the election of Biden.
The DOJ is investigating the removal of government documents from the White House when Trump was in office.
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