By Oyintari Ben
The House Select Committee looking into the January 6, 2021 uprising advises against former President Donald Trump being allowed to run for office again.
The recommendation is contained in the panel’s final report, a thorough summary of its findings on how Trump and his supporters attempted to rig the 2020 presidential election. The study was issued late on Thursday night and includes all of the panel’s recommendations.
The 845-page report, which is based on more than 1,000 interviews, documents, emails, texts, phone records, and a year and a half of investigation, claims that Trump “oversaw” the questionable effort to nominate phony electors in seven states that he lost. It claims that the evidence demonstrates that he actively worked to “transmit false Electoral College ballots to Congress and the National Archives” despite concerns from his attorneys that doing so might be illegal.
In a symbolic action on Monday, the committee referred Trump to the Justice Department on at least four criminal accusations, while also asserting in its executive summary that it had evidence supporting potential charges of conspiring to obstruct or damage an officer and seditious conspiracy.
The overwhelming and obvious conclusion drawn from this evidence is that former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed, was the primary cause of the events of January 6th. Without him, none of the January 6th events would have occurred, according to the report.
Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who serves as the committee’s chairman, declared on Monday that he has “every confidence” that the committee’s work will help create a roadmap for justice and that the institutions and agencies in charge of ensuring that justice is done according to the law will use the data we’ve provided to help with their work.
The Justice Department’s investigations into Trump, including those into his post-election behaviour and the secret materials discovered at his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this year, are being led by special counsel Jack Smith.
