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A congressional committee recommends charging Trump with four federal crimes

2022-12-19T19:52:46.656Z


After 18 months of investigations, thousands of hours of interviews, more than a million documents reviewed, a hundred court summonses and ten hearings to inform the...


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After 18 months of investigations, thousands of hours of interviews, more than a million documents reviewed, a hundred subpoenas, and ten hearings to inform the public of their progress, the special congressional committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on In

January 2021, considered a coup,

he filed four recommendations for criminal charges against former President

Donald Trump

in a final and historic public hearing: insurrection, obstruction of an official congressional process, conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States, and conspiracy to make a false statement.

The panel, which recommended that the Justice Department indict the former president, made it clear that Trump did not act alone.

He included in the recommendations five other allies of the Republican

: Mark Meadows, his last chief of staff, and the lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Chesebro, for possible prosecution for actions that, according to the committee, justified a Justice Department investigation.

The charges would carry serious prison sentences if federal prosecutors decide to pursue them.

Bennie Thompson, chairman of the special committee and congressman from Mississippi,

accused Trump of "breaking faith" in the US electoral system

and "trying to stay in power through a conspiracy to reverse the electoral result", haranguing a mob of his followers to storm the Capitol building in Washington, with a balance of five dead and 140 wounded agents.

Liz Cheney, the panel's vice president and congresswoman from Wyoming, called the former president's conduct "disgraceful," declaring him "unfit" to hold any public office.

The panel further accused Trump

of illegally lobbying Vice President Mike Pence to support his lies about election theft

.

Pence refused, claiming that he did not have the authority to carry out his plan.

The discussion culminated in a phone call loaded with insults and threats from the then president.

According to the investigation, the New York tycoon "supervised" an effort to obtain and transmit false electoral certificates, directly linking it to a plot to rig the election results in seven of the states where he lost.

The committee's recommendations, without representing a formal accusation,

represent an added obstacle in the face of the former Republican president's re-election options in 2024

.

On November 16, he officially announced his run for the White House after the 2020 defeat and having said actively and passively that the elections were stolen from him.

The severity of the recommendations for criminal charges against him could favor the choices of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who many Republicans see as the strongest candidate for president if he decides to run.

Trump did not plan to follow the public hearing live, according to close sources cited by CNN, although he did not hide his obsession with the committee over the weekend, harshly criticizing the nine members of the panel -two of them Republicans- and belittling the process.

Thompson and the rest of the committee members have accused him of being behind an attempted coup by encouraging a mob of his supporters to force their way into the Capitol and disrupt Joe Biden's confirmation process.

Testimony such as that of former Attorney General William Barr or his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, confirmed his involvement in the attacks.

Even so, Thompson had already made it clear for days that the recommendations would have a symbolic nature and that the Department of Justice led by Merrick Garland does not need the green light or the indications of said committee to present its own charges with the former president. and others responsible for the assault on the Capitol.

They do understand it as a fundamental part of his work, the conclusion of months of investigation, but not a measure of pressure on the Department of Justice, according to various sources.

The committee had an urgency to present its conclusions after the results of the legislative elections that returned the majority of the House of Representatives to the Republicans, who were opposed to continuing with the committee.

This is called to dissolve on January 3, coinciding with the start of the new legislature.

For Trump it is the umpteenth judicial battle underway, including the case of the secret documents that he took from the White House and that he kept in his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, some of which are considered top secret.

The 76-year-old Republican already knows that

he could face fines and up to three years in prison

, in addition to being disqualified from public office for intentionally or involuntarily concealing, falsifying, destroying, erasing, or mutilating documents.

"The evidence has led to one absolute and straightforward 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."

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