Jan. 6 panel unveils report, describes Trump 'conspiracy'

Thank you. Mr. Chairman. And I wanna thank you for your extraordinary leadership of this committee generations to come, will praise you and the Vice chair for your unswerving devotion to the rule of law. Several months ago you tasked several of our members in the subcommittee with bringing recommendations to the full Committee about potential referrals to the Department of Justice and other authorities based on evidence of criminal and civil offenses that has come to our attention over the course of our investigation. We are now prepared to share those recommendations today. Mr Chairman, let me begin with some relevant background considerations to our criminal referrals. The dangerous assault on american constitutional democracy that took place on january 6th 2021 consists of hundreds of individual criminal offenses. Most such crimes are already being prosecuted by the Department of Justice. We proposed to the committee advancing referrals where the gravity of the specific offense, the severity of its actual harm and the centrality of the offender to the overall design of the unlawful scheme. To overthrow the election, compel us to speak. Ours is not *** system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ringleaders get *** free pass. Mr. Chairman, as you know, our committee had the opportunity last spring to present much of our evidence to *** federal judge, something that distinguishes our investigation from any other congressional investigation. I can recall in the context of resolving evidentiary privilege, issues related to the crime, fraud doctrine in the Eastman case. U. S. District Court Judge David carter examined just *** small subset of our evidence to determine whether it showed the likely commission of *** federal offense. The judge concluded that both former President Donald trump and john Eastman likely violated two federal criminal statutes. This is the starting point for our analysis today. The first criminal statute we invoke for referral, therefore, is title 18 section 15 12 C, which makes it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct influence or impede any official proceeding of the United States government. We believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout our hearings, warrants *** criminal referral of former President Donald J trump john Eastman and others for violations of this statute. The whole purpose and obvious effect of trump's scheme were to obstruct influence and impede this official proceeding. The central moment for the lawful transfer of power in the United States. Second, we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former President Donald J. Trump john Eastman and others for violating Title 18 section 3 71. This statute makes it *** crime to conspire to defraud the United States, in other words to make an agreement to impair obstruct or defeat the lawful functions of the United States government by deceitful or dishonest means former president trump did not engage in *** plan to defraud the United States acting alone. He entered into agreements, formal and informal with several other individuals who assisted him with his criminal objectives. Our report describes in detail the actions of numerous co conspirators who agreed with and participated in trump's plan to impair obstruct and defeat the certification of President biden's electoral victory. That said, the subcommittee does not attempt to determine all of the potential participants in this conspiracy. As our understanding of the role of many individuals may be incomplete even today because they refuse to answer our questions. We trust that the Department of Justice will be able to form *** far more complete picture through its own investigation. Third, we make *** referral based on title 18, Section 1001, which makes it unlawful to knowingly and willfully make materially false statements to the federal government. The evidence clearly suggests that president trump conspired with others to submit slates of fake electors to Congress and the Nationals Archives. We believe that this evidence we set forth in our report is more than sufficient for *** criminal referral of former President Donald J. Trump and others in connection with this offense as before. We don't try to determine all of the participants in this conspiracy, many of whom refused to answer our questions while under we trust that the Department of Justice will be able to form *** more complete picture through its own investigation. The fourth and final statute we invoke for referral is title 18 section 23 83. The statute applies to anyone who incites, assists or engages an insurrection against the United States of America and anyone who gives aid or comfort to an insurrection. An insurrection is *** rebellion against the authority of the United States. It is *** grave federal offense anchored in the constitution itself, which repeatedly opposes insurrections and domestic violence and indeed uses participation in insurrection by officeholders as automatic grounds for disqualification from ever holding public office again. At the federal or state level, anyone who incites others to engage in rebelling, assist them in doing so or gives aid and comfort to those engaged in insurrection is guilty of *** federal crime. The committee believes that more than sufficient evidence exists for *** criminal referral of former president trump for assisting or aiding and comforting those at the capitol who engaged in *** violent attack on the United States. The committee has developed significant evidence that President trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transfer transition of power Under our constitution. The president has an affirmative and primary constitutional duty to act to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Nothing could be *** greater betrayal of this duty than to assist an insurrection against the constitutional order. The complete factual basis for this referral is set forth in detail throughout our report. These are not the only statutes that are potentially relevant to President Trump's conduct related to the 2020 election, depending on evidence developed by the Department of Justice. The president's actions could certainly trigger other criminal violations nor our president Trump and his immediate team. The only people identified for referrals in our report. As part of our investigation, We asked multiple members of Congress to speak with us about issues critical to our understanding of this attack on the 2020 election and our system of constitutional democracy. None agreed to provide that essential information. As *** result, we took the significant step of issuing them subpoenas based on the volume of information particular members possessed about one or more parts of President Trump's plans to overturn the election.

The House Jan. 6 committee바카라 게임 웹사이트�s final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�multi-part conspiracy바카라 게임 웹사이트� to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago.The 814-page report released Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents. The witnesses 바카라 게임 웹사이트� ranging from many of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves 바카라 게임 웹사이트� detailed Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.The central cause was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�one man,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the report says: Trump.The insurrection gravely threatened democracy and 바카라 게임 웹사이트�put the lives of American lawmakers at risk,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the nine-member panel concluded.In a foreword to the report, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the findings should be a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�clarion call to all Americans: to vigilantly guard our Democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defense of our Constitution."The report바카라 게임 웹사이트�s eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel바카라 게임 웹사이트�s hearings did this summer 바카라 게임 웹사이트� describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Trump and his advisers devised to try and void President Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트�s victory. The lawmakers describe his pressure on states, federal officials, lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to game the system or break the law.In the two months between the election and the insurrection, the report says, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results.바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump's repeated, false claims of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, the committee said, and were amplified on social media, building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office. And he did little to stop them when they resorted to violence and stormed the Capitol.The massive, damning report comes as Trump is running again for the presidency and also facing multiple federal investigations, including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate. This week is particularly fraught for him, as a House committee is expected to release his tax returns after he has fought for years to keep them private. And Trump has been blamed by Republicans for a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, leaving him in his most politically vulnerable state since he won the 2016 election.Posting on his social media site, Trump called the report 바카라 게임 웹사이트�highly partisan바카라 게임 웹사이트� and falsely claimed it didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t include his statement on Jan. 6 that his supporters should protest 바카라 게임 웹사이트�peacefully and patriotically.바카라 게임 웹사이트� The committee noted he followed that comment with election falsehoods and charged language exhorting the crowd to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�fight like hell.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The report details a multitude of failings by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But it makes an emphatic point that security failures are not what led to the insurrection.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The President of the United States inciting a mob to march on the Capitol and impede the work of Congress is not a scenario our intelligence and law enforcement communities envisioned for this country," the committee's chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, writes in a separate foreword.The report details Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s inaction as his loyalists were violently storming the building. Returning to the White House from his fiery speech, he asked an employee if they had seen his remarks on television.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Sir, they cut it off because they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re rioting down at the Capitol,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the staffer said, according to the report.A White House photographer snapped a picture of Trump at 1:21 p.m., learning of the riot from the employee. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�By that time, if not sooner, he had been made aware of the violent riot at the Capitol,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the report states.In total, 187 minutes elapsed between the time Trump finished his speech at the Ellipse and his first effort to get the rioters to disperse, through an eventual video message in which he asked his supporters to go home even as he reassured them, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We love you, you바카라 게임 웹사이트�re very special.바카라 게임 웹사이트�During those hours, dozens of staffers and associates pleaded with him to make a forceful statement. But he did not.The committee quotes some of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s most loyal supporters blaming him for the violence.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We all look like domestic terrorists now,바카라 게임 웹사이트� longtime aide Hope Hicks texted Julie Radford, who served as Ivanka Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s chief of staff, in the aftermath.Hicks also texted a White House lawyer: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m so upset. Everything we worked for wiped away."The investigation's release is a final act for House Democrats who are ceding power to Republicans in less than two weeks and have spent much of their four years in power investigating Trump. Democrats impeached Trump twice, the second time a week after the insurrection. He was acquitted by the Senate both times. Other Democratic-led probes investigated his finances, his businesses, his foreign ties and his family.On Monday, the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans officially passed their investigation to the Justice Department, recommending the department investigate the former president on four crimes, including aiding an insurrection. While the criminal referrals have no legal standing, they are a final statement from the committee after its extensive, year-and-a-half-long probe.Trump has tried to discredit the report, slamming members of the committee as 바카라 게임 웹사이트�thugs and scoundrels바카라 게임 웹사이트� as he has continued to falsely dispute his 2020 loss.In response to the panel바카라 게임 웹사이트�s criminal referrals, Trump said: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�These folks don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The committee has also begun to release hundreds of transcripts of its interviews. On Thursday, the panel released transcripts of two closed-door interviews with former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified in person at one of the televised hearings over the summer and described in vivid detail Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s efforts to influence the election results and indifference toward the violence as it occurred.In the two interviews, both conducted after her July appearance at the hearing, she described how many of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s allies, including her lawyer, pressured her not to say too much in her committee interviews.___Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON —

The 814-page report released Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents. The witnesses 바카라 게임 웹사이트� ranging from many of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves 바카라 게임 웹사이트� detailed Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The central cause was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�one man,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the report says: Trump.

The insurrection gravely threatened democracy and 바카라 게임 웹사이트�put the lives of American lawmakers at risk,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the nine-member panel concluded.

In a foreword to the report, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the findings should be a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�clarion call to all Americans: to vigilantly guard our Democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defense of our Constitution."

The report바카라 게임 웹사이트�s eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel바카라 게임 웹사이트�s hearings did this summer 바카라 게임 웹사이트� describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Trump and his advisers devised to try and void President Joe Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트�s victory. The lawmakers describe his pressure on states, federal officials, lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to game the system or break the law.

In the two months between the election and the insurrection, the report says, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

Trump's repeated, false claims of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, the committee said, and were amplified on social media, building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office. And he did little to stop them when they resorted to violence and stormed the Capitol.

The massive, damning report comes as Trump is running again for the presidency and also facing multiple federal investigations, including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate. This week is particularly fraught for him, as a House committee is expected to release his tax returns after he has fought for years to keep them private. And Trump has been blamed by Republicans for a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, leaving him in his most politically vulnerable state since he won the 2016 election.

Posting on his social media site, Trump called the report 바카라 게임 웹사이트�highly partisan바카라 게임 웹사이트� and falsely claimed it didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t include his statement on Jan. 6 that his supporters should protest 바카라 게임 웹사이트�peacefully and patriotically.바카라 게임 웹사이트� The committee noted he followed that comment with election falsehoods and charged language exhorting the crowd to 바카라 게임 웹사이트�fight like hell.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

The report details a multitude of failings by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But it makes an emphatic point that security failures are not what led to the insurrection.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�The President of the United States inciting a mob to march on the Capitol and impede the work of Congress is not a scenario our intelligence and law enforcement communities envisioned for this country," the committee's chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, writes in a separate foreword.

The report details Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s inaction as his loyalists were violently storming the building. Returning to the White House from his fiery speech, he asked an employee if they had seen his remarks on television.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�Sir, they cut it off because they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re rioting down at the Capitol,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the staffer said, according to the report.

A White House photographer snapped a picture of Trump at 1:21 p.m., learning of the riot from the employee. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�By that time, if not sooner, he had been made aware of the violent riot at the Capitol,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the report states.

In total, 187 minutes elapsed between the time Trump finished his speech at the Ellipse and his first effort to get the rioters to disperse, through an eventual video message in which he asked his supporters to go home even as he reassured them, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We love you, you바카라 게임 웹사이트�re very special.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

During those hours, dozens of staffers and associates pleaded with him to make a forceful statement. But he did not.

The committee quotes some of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s most loyal supporters blaming him for the violence.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�We all look like domestic terrorists now,바카라 게임 웹사이트� longtime aide Hope Hicks texted Julie Radford, who served as Ivanka Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s chief of staff, in the aftermath.

Hicks also texted a White House lawyer: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m so upset. Everything we worked for wiped away."

The investigation's release is a final act for House Democrats who are ceding power to Republicans in less than two weeks and have spent much of their four years in power investigating Trump. Democrats impeached Trump twice, the second time a week after the insurrection. He was acquitted by the Senate both times. Other Democratic-led probes investigated his finances, his businesses, his foreign ties and his family.

On Monday, the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans officially passed their investigation to the Justice Department, recommending the department investigate the former president on four crimes, including aiding an insurrection. While the criminal referrals have no legal standing, they are a final statement from the committee after its extensive, year-and-a-half-long probe.

Trump has tried to discredit the report, slamming members of the committee as 바카라 게임 웹사이트�thugs and scoundrels바카라 게임 웹사이트� as he has continued to falsely dispute his 2020 loss.

In response to the panel바카라 게임 웹사이트�s criminal referrals, Trump said: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�These folks don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

The committee has also begun to release hundreds of transcripts of its interviews. On Thursday, the panel released transcripts of two closed-door interviews with former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified in person at one of the televised hearings over the summer and described in vivid detail Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s efforts to influence the election results and indifference toward the violence as it occurred.

In the two interviews, both conducted after her July appearance at the hearing, she described how many of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s allies, including her lawyer, pressured her not to say too much in her committee interviews.

___

Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

Jan. 6 panel unveils report, describes Trump 'conspiracy'

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