Final report of the Capitol Riot group makes the case against Trump

Late on Thursday, the congressional panel looking into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, released its final report, making the case that former President Donald Trump should be charged with inciting the violent riot.

Earlier on Thursday and on Wednesday, the House of Representatives Select Committee made the transcripts of several of its interviews and witness testimony available to the public.

Over 800 pages long, the study is based on nearly 1,200 interviews conducted over the course of 18 months, millions of documents, as well as the decisions of more than 60 federal and state courts.

According to an executive summary published earlier this week, the report outlines 17 specific findings, explores the legal ramifications of activities taken by Trump and some of his allies, and includes criminal referrals of Trump and other people to the Justice Department. Additionally, the paper makes legislative suggestions to assist prevent further attacks of this nature.

The committee requested that the Republican former president be charged with four felonies, including obstruction and rebellion, on Monday for what they claimed were attempts to rescind the results of the November 2020 election and for igniting the attack on the government building.

President Trump conspired to overturn the election result rather than uphold his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be properly executed,” the House panel had stated earlier in a 160-page summary of its investigation.

After the release of the final report, Trump referred to it as a “witch hunt” and “very biased” in remarks made on his Truth Social network. The “analysis of the (Jan. 6) protest’s cause, electoral fraud,” according to him, was not done.

Federal prosecutors are not required to take any action as a result of the Democratic-led panel’s recommendation to the Justice Department, but it was the first time in history that Congress had referred a former president for criminal prosecution. Trump declared his intention to run for president once more in November.

One of the transcripts from the hearings that were made public on Wednesday and Thursday revealed that Cassidy Hutchinson’s former attorney advised her to “downplay” her knowledge of the circumstances leading up to the Capitol incident, saying “the less you remember, the better.”

She told the committee in September, according to the transcript of her evidence, that attorney Stefan Passantino instructed Hutchinson to state that she could not recollect specific events when preparing for a deposition before the panel in February.
The morning of January 6, at a loud address to his supporters near the White House, Trump publicly criticized his vice president, Mike Pence, for not supporting his proposal to invalidate votes cast for Democrat Joe Biden.

The former president then waited for hours before making a public remark as tens of thousands of his fans stormed the Capitol, pelting police with rocks and yelling that Pence should be hanged.

After weeks of false assertions by Trump that he had won that election, Pence and lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 election when the Capitol was assaulted.