Lawmakers urge criminal charges against Trump

Congressman Jamie Raskin has outlined the criminal charges that the committee will recommend against Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election and subsequent role in the January 6 riot.

The charges are:

• Obstruction of an official proceeding
• Conspiracy to defraud the United States
• Conspiracy to make a false statement to the federal government
• Inciting, assisting or aiding insurrection
  

  Trump ‘summoned’ rioters to Washington, DC: Congresswoman

  Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy has highlighted Trump’s role in inciting the riot by pushing to bring his supporters – who ended up attacking the Capitol – to Washington, DC, last year.

  “He turned to his supporters, those who believed his lies about a stolen election. He summoned a crowd to the nation’s capitol on January 6, hoping that they would pressure Congress to do what he could not do on his own,” said Murphy, referring to overturning the elections.

  Committee rehashing content of previous sessions

  Members of the committee are presenting a summation of findings revealed in previous sessions.

  Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the panel, highlighted Trump’s push to pressure the Justice Department to help overturn the election and validate his false fraud claims, and the resistance he met by top prosecutors.

  Schiff slams Trump’s ‘callous’ attacks on election officials

  Schiff has said that Trump’s voting fraud claims sparked death threats and harassment campaigns against local election officials, especially those mentioned by name by the former president and his supporters.

  The congressman said the campaign against election officials “was callous, inhuman, inexcusable and dangerous”.

  “Those responsible should be held accountable,” he added.

  Congresswoman lays out ‘specific findings’ by panel

  Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a Democratic member of the committee, has laid out the panel’s “specific findings”:

  • Trump disseminated false claims of fraud.
  • Before the election, the former president planned to declare victory regardless of the results.
  • Trump raised hundreds of millions of dollars through “false representation”.
  • Trump made claims of election fraud even after being told by aides that they were false.
  • The ex-president “knowingly and corruptly repeated election fraud lies, which incited his supporters to violence on January 6”.
    

    January 6 riot participants face criminal proceedings

    The committee’s final session comes as a number of participants in the Capitol riot face criminal proceedings and sentencing for their roles in the events of January 6.

    Last week, a US District Court judge sentenced an Iowa construction worker and believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory to five years in prison for taking part in the attack.