On Thursday night, the long-awaited final report of the Jan 6 House select committee investigating the Capitol riot was released. The report accused former President Donald Trump of engaging in a criminal “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The 845-page report, based on 1,000-plus interviews, documents collected including emails, texts, and phone records, and a year and a half of investigation, alleges that the former president was responsible for overseeing the effort to put forward fake slates of electors in the seven states he lost, arguing that the evidence indicates that he actively worked to “transmit false Electoral College ballots to Congress and the National Archives,” despite concerns among his lawyers that he was doing so.
The final document contains eight chapters and an executive summary along with a list of 11 legislative recommendations, all of which are included in the committee’s responsibility to investigate the events of Jan. 6 and make recommendations to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future.
“This report will provide greater detail about the multistep effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power,” read the report’s foreword written by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
In its most recent public meeting, the committee referred former President Trump to the Justice Department on at least four criminal charges. It further stated in its executive summary that it had evidence of potential charges of conspiring to injure or obstruct an officer and seditious conspiracy.
The former president was quick to respond, writing in a post on Truth Social: “The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the “Peacefully and Patrioticly” words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT”?”
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