Capitol riot panel: Recommends criminal impeachment of Trump and his lawyer

The January 6 House of Representatives committee approved in its historic final report on the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill the criminal impeachment of former US President Donald Trump, his lawyer John Eastman and four other members of Congress.

The panel referred Trump to the Justice Department for obstruction of official proceedings, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make false statements and inciting, aiding or abetting an insurgency, the panel said.

In addition, four members of Congress will also be referred to the House ethics committee for refusing to comply with the committee’s Jan. 6 subpoenas. They are House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona.

The committee chose to proceed with impeachment of Trump and the others because “the seriousness of this particular offense, the seriousness of the actual harm and the centrality of the perpetrator to the overall design of the illegal scheme to subvert the election compels us to speak,” the Democrat said. Jamie Ruskin.

“The judge concluded that both former President Donald Trump and John Eastman likely violated two federal criminal statutes,” Raskin said.

Committee Chair: Trump invited a mob to Washington

“Donald Trump lost the election in 2020 and he knew it. But he chose to try to stay in power through a multilateral scheme to reverse the results and block the transfer of power. “We have never had a President of the United States instigate a violent attempt to prevent the transfer of power,” said Benny Thompson, chairman of the commission investigating the January 6 Uprising in the US Capitol, in his opening statements and emphasized that the Americans place faith in elected officials to uphold the law and uphold the results of the election, but Trump has “broken that faith” in the nation.

“In the end, he invited a mob to Washington,” he said, adding that the panel’s findings show Trump knew they were “armed and angry.”

“There is one factor that I think is most important in preventing another January 6th – accountability,” Thompson stressed. “So today, in addition to our findings, we will also show that the evidence we have gathered indicates further action beyond the powers of this committee or Congress in order to ensure accountability under the law. Accountability that can only be found in the criminal justice system. We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a road map to justice,” he added.

At the same time, he said that the future of democracy rests in the hands of the American people. “The future of our democracy is in your hands. It is up to the people of this country to decide who deserves the public trust. Who will put faith in the Constitution and democracy above all else. Who will uphold the rule of law — regardless of the outcome.”

Committee vice chairman: Trump’s inaction during riot ‘shameful’

For her part, the vice chairwoman of the January 6 House of Representatives committee, Liz Cheney, condemned the “blatantly false” statements of Donald Trump, who she said insisted that the election was rigged and “would not accept the result”. and called his inaction during the uprising a “shame.”

She also launched a scathing attack on him, saying that “no man who behaved in this manner at that time can ever serve in any position of power in our nation again. He is unfit for any position,” he stressed.

He also echoed the words of chairman Benny Thompson, saying: “In our work over the last 18 months, we have recognized our obligation to do everything we can to ensure this never happens again.”

“Among the most disgraceful findings of this committee was that President Trump sat in the dining room outside the Oval Office watching the violent riot on Capitol Hill on television. For hours, he issued no public statement ordering his supporters to disband and leave Capitol Hill, despite the urgent needs of his White House staff and dozens of others to do so,” Liz Cheney said.

Zoe Lofgren: Trump’s big lie was ‘premeditated and illegal’

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren argued that the committee has a lot of evidence showing that there was “a massive effort led by former President Trump to spread baseless accusations and misinformation in an attempt to falsely convince tens of millions of Americans that there was fraud.” in the elections”

“Former President Trump’s decision to falsely declare his election victory that night was not a spontaneous decision. It was something premeditated. The commission has evidence that the former president planned to declare victory and illegally request that the vote count be stopped. The committee found that Mr. Trump raised hundreds of millions of dollars by making false statements to his online donors. Fundraising proceeds, we have learned, have been used in ways that we believe are troubling,” said Zoe Lofgren.

“Donald Trump knowingly repeated corrupt lies about election fraud that incited his supporters to violence on January 6, [και] continues to repeat this baseless claim that the election was rigged even today.”

“Tried to present fake voter lists”

During the last public hearing, the committee also highlighted Trump’s personal involvement in the legally dubious effort to introduce fake voter rolls in seven states he lost, arguing that evidence shows he actively worked to “deliver fraudulent ballots to the Electoral College and National Archives”.

“The fake ballots were created by fake Republican electors on December 14th, at the same time that real, qualified electors in these states were meeting to vote for President Biden. By that time, election-related litigation had ended in all or nearly all of those states, and the Trump Campaign’s election lawyers realized that the fraudulent voter rolls were unwarranted for any reason and possibly illegal.” said committee member Rep. Adam Schiff.

“Despite these concerns and the concerns of individuals in the White House Counsel’s Office, President Trump and others moved forward with this plan,” he added.

The commission has evidence showing that these “deliberately forged” College certificates were “passed to numerous officers of the federal government.”

The decision for Trump comes after 18 months of investigation and explosive revelations about the events of January 6, 2021. That day when supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, claiming like himself that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him victory over Joe Biden, impacted against the seat of Congress in Washington, causing a huge shock wave in the US and the rest of the world.

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