United States A congressional committee recommends indicting Trump for four federal crimes
The House of Representatives committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was scheduled to make public this Wednesday an 800-page report in which it
concludes that former United States President
Donald Trump
was primarily responsible for an attempted coup
, encouraging a violent mob to storm the Capitol building in Washington to disrupt the handover after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
The lies fed by the former president about electoral fraud
put US democracy
in jeopardy, a conspiracy that led his thousands of followers present in the country's capital to "put the lives of US legislators" in danger with "shocking" brutality ", according to the report.
"The evidence has led to an absolute and direct conclusion: the central cause of January 6 was one man, former President Donald Trump, who was followed by many others," states an executive summary of the committee's report.
"None of the events of January 6 would have happened without him."
According to sources consulted by CNN, the committee has already begun sharing material about its investigation with the Justice Department,
which it recommended on Monday to
file four criminal charges
against Trump
: insurrection, obstruction of an official process of Congress, conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States and conspiracy to spread electoral falsehoods.
The full report - following the summary made public on Monday - includes parts of the more than 1,000 interviews conducted over the course of the 18-month investigation, a report in eight chapters that may not be the last.
Bennie Thompson, chair of the committee and a congressman from Mississippi, said that transcripts of other less relevant interviews will be available to the public before the end of the year.
The committee will be dissolved on January 3 after the Republicans have regained control of the House of Representatives.
The lengthy report concludes that "instead of fulfilling his constitutional obligation to 'see that the laws are faithfully executed,'
President Trump conspired to overturn the election result,
" as well as "corruptly" lobbying Vice President Mike Pence to that it will "refuse to count electoral votes during the joint session of Congress on January 6."
He also attempted to corrupt the Justice Department so that certain members would make "willfully false statements" to reverse the election result.
In addition to the threat of charges that the Department of Justice may file against him, Trump has another open front in Georgia, one of the key states that he lost to Biden.
State prosecutors could take the step before Justice does
, according to Jennifer Rubin, a columnist for
The Washington Post
.
Trump tried to scratch there the little more than 11,000 votes that he said he needed to reverse the result.
The committee, made up of seven Democratic and two Republican congressmen, has reiterated in its report that Trump's accusations of fraud in Georgia were dismantled one by one by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
He even offered a link to the audit carried out by the state authorities on the validity of the electoral process, but the then president dismissed it.
"I don't care about the link. I don't need it," he replied.
Trump could be charged in Georgia
with interference with the primaries and elections, willful interference with the performance of election duties and conspiracy to commit voter fraud.
The former president asked Raffensperger to seek additional votes in his favor and discard those of President Joe Biden.
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