China News Service, December 17 (Xinhua) According to the Associated Press report on the 17th, the Special Investigation Committee on the Capitol Hill Riots of the US House of Representatives will vote to decide whether to file criminal charges against former President Trump on three counts.
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According to people familiar with the matter, the special investigation committee will consider the proposal on the 19th. The document lists three charges, including rioting, obstructing the actions of government agencies and conspiracy to deceive the United States.
Later on the 16th local time, the committee's deliberations continued, and no formal decision has yet been made on which specific charges the committee will submit to the Justice Department.
It is reported that since its establishment in July 2021, the nine-member team of the Special Investigation Committee has been collecting evidence extensively, interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses, and plans to transfer the case to the US Department of Justice in the near future and recommend criminal prosecution.
Congressional committee chairman Benny Thompson last week detailed the possible lawsuits in the transfer case, which fall into a range of categories, including criminal and ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations.
"From a constitutional standpoint, the most serious crime (by Trump and others) is an attempt to overturn the presidential election and bypass the U.S. Constitution," Democratic Rep. Jamie Ruskin, a member of the committee, said in an interview.
"And on top of that, (they have) a whole host of statutory offenses that demonstrate the seriousness and scale of the violence on Capitol Hill."
On January 6, 2021, supporters of the then U.S. President Trump violently broke into the U.S. Capitol, disrupting vote counting and verifying the results of the U.S. presidential election.
The incident lasted for several hours, and a series of conflicts resulted in more than 100 casualties.
Afterwards, the U.S. government launched an investigation into the incident.