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January 6 committee releases final report, says Trump should be barred from office by Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, Geneva Sands, Katelyn Polantz, and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

After 18 months of investigating the events and causes of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, from more than 1,000 closed-door interviews and 10 public hearings, the special House committee is set to release its final report next week. At the end of its planned meeting on Dec. 19, the committee will not only vote to approve its final report but also on whether to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as part of its probe. When it comes to holding anyone criminally responsible, the panel has not disclosed whom it might recommend for consideration. The panel’s full report will be released on the same day as the meeting. The Jan. 6 committee is expecting to gavel in at 1:00 p.m. EST.

The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, insurrection recommends barring former President Donald Trump from holding office again.

The recommendation is among the conclusions of the panel’s final report, a comprehensive overview of the bipartisan panel’s findings on how Trump and his allies sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, released late Thursday evening.

The 845-page report – based on 1,000-plus interviews, documents collected including emails, texts, phone records, and a year and a half of investigation – includes allegations that Trump “oversaw” the legally dubious effort to put forward fake slates of electors in seven states he lost, arguing that the evidence shows he actively worked to “transmit false Electoral College ballots to Congress and the National Archives” despite concerns among his lawyers that doing so could be unlawful.

In a symbolic move Monday, the committee in its last public meeting referred Trump to the Justice Department on at least four criminal charges while saying in its executive summary it had evidence of possible charges of conspiring to injure or impede an officer and seditious conspiracy. 

“That evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the report states.

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said on Monday that he has “every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide a road map to justice, and that the agencies and institutions responsible for ensuring justice under the law will use the information we’ve provided to aid in their work.” To read more go to the link below:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html

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