The Subpoena of the Oz Committee on the Investigation of the Enlightenment of the White House and the Case for a “Drunken Mr. Trump”
The panel subpoenaed Trump last month seeking a wide array of documents by 10 a.m. Friday and for Trump to sit for an interview under oath beginning on November 14 and “continuing on subsequent days as necessary.”
The January 6 committee, currently constructed, will cease to exist if the Republicans are able to take back control of the House.
“They are trying to make the case that Trump is Oz,” said CNN’s John King, interpreting the committee’s subpoena of Trump. When you look at him, you see that he is actually a little guy behind a curtain trying to pull a machine.
Contempt. The full House could vote to hold him in contempt if they were still in control of it.
After a contempt of Congress referral, the Justice Department could then prosecute, as it did with Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon and plans to do with his once economic adviser Peter Navarro.
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“None of that is going to happen,” the Trump critic and conservative lawyer George Conway predicted during an appearance on CNN Thursday. It’s about laying a marker. This is about getting a response from Trump.
Conway did point out the Supreme Court has already made clear where it stands on Trump’s status as a former president when it ignored his attempt to block the National Archives from sharing information with the committee.
Back when he was president, the Supreme Court punted in 2020 when it sent a dispute over House subpoenas for Trump’s financial records back to lower courts. Justices told lower courts to consider separation of powers even in cases involving the president’s private information. The House Oversight Committee recently reached an agreement with Trump to get access to the documents.
Cheney, who serves as vice chair of the House committee, singled out people who invoked the Fifth Amendment or refused to testify rather than elaborate on their communications with Trump on January 6, 2021, including:
In 1983 a Senate subcommittee heard testimony from Ford as a former president. According to the Senate Historical Office and Senate Library, the last time a president took questions from lawmakers in the committee setting was 39 years ago.
Thomas Jefferson refused to testify at the trial of the former Vice President despite the fact that he had been subpoenaed. Jefferson did ultimately provide some documents. Burr was eventually acquitted.
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The Supreme Court ruled New York could get access to the financial documents. A criminal trial will take place this month for Trump’s company.
A judge forced him to comply with subpoenas from New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of her civil inquiry into his business practices. He invoked the Fifth Amendment in order to self-incrimination.
James sued the Trump Organization, as well as Trump and his three oldest children. On Thursday, James asked a state court to block Trump from moving assets to shield them from the lawsuit.
As a result, the January 6 committee must finish all of their work by January 3, 2023, when the next Congress will start.
The hearing featured never-before-seen footage of congressional leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, huddled in a secure location during the insurrection grappling with the implications of the pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol. The accounts of the ex President trying to avoid admitting that he was a loser in 2020 and his subsequent actions made his actions even more heinous, were featured in it.
In roughly three months since the last January 6 committee hearing, the panel has obtained more than 1 million records from the Secret Service, and the panel revealed some of what they learned during Thursday’s hearing.
The leaders of the committee argued that Trump was at the center of a campaign to overturn the 2020 election which led to the violence of the insurrection, and as a result they needed his testimony to tell the complete story.
She said that they were obligated to ask the man who set this all in motion. “And every American is entitled to those answers, so we can act now to protect our republic.”
“The need for this committee to hear from Donald Trump goes beyond our fact-finding. This is a question about what happens when people do not do their jobs. He has to be held accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said.
During the hearing, the panel labeled the footage as showing lawmakers at an “undisclosed location.” The public has known since January 6th, that senior congressional leaders took refuge at Fort McNair while the Capitol was overrun.
The footage shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top officials working the phones and coordinating with Trump Cabinet members and other officials to secure the resources needed to quell the insurrection and secure the Capitol.
The footage showed Pelosi and Pence talking on the phone on January 6 in order to coordinate the emergency response.
The new footage showed Schumer dressing down then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. During their heated phone call, Schumer implored Rosen to intervene directly with Trump, and tell Trump to call off the mob. During the call, Pelosi told the interviewer that the rioters were breaking the law at the direction of the president.
CNN reported in August that Chao, who is also the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, had met with the committee. But after condemning the attack in her resignation letter in early 2021, Chao has largely stayed out of the national spotlight, with her recent comments to the committee providing fresh insight into her thinking on the deadly attack.
It was impossible for me to continue given my personal values and philosophy after the events at a particular point. I came to this country as an immigrant. I believe in the United States of America. The peaceful transfer of power is something I believe in. I believe in democracy. She said that she made her own decision.
On Thursday, the committee showed new video deposition from Hutchinson where she spoke to Meadows about Trump’s January 2021 call where he urged the Georgia secretary of state to “find” the votes he needed to win.
I remember saying to Mark that he couldn’t possibly believe we were going to pull this off. That call was crazy. And he looked at me and just started shaking his head. And he’s like, ‘No, Cass, you know, he knows it’s over. He knows he’s lost. Hutchinson told the committee that they were going to keep trying.
Hutchinson also said that she witnessed a conversation between Meadows and Trump where he was furious the Supreme Court had rejected a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election result.
The President wanted to make sure people did not know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Look at it and figure it out. We need to figure it out. Hutchinson did not want people to know we lost.
While there are still questions surrounding erased text messages from Secret Service agents around the insurrection, the panel obtained messages and emails showing the agency receiving warnings before January 6, 2021, about the prospect of violence, as well as real-time reports of weapons in the crowd ahead of Trump’s speech at the Ellipse.
Before the elections, Trump communications adviser,Jason Miller, bragged to one of his clients, that he got the base fired up, and shared a link to a pro-Trump webpage with hundreds of threatening comments about killing lawmakers.
The Secret Service was warned about online threats against Vice President Mike Pence, who would be a dead man walking if he failed to do the right thing, according to a report.
The committee played previously unseen video from its deposition of Pence’s counsel, Greg Jacob. Jacob describes how he and Short prepared for Trump to declare victory on Election Night, regardless of the results.
The committee said it obtained a memo from the National Archives and presented it for the first time on Thursday.
“It is essential that the Vice President not be perceived by the public as having decided questions concerning disputed electoral votes prior to the full development of all relevant facts,” the memo reads.
The committee also revealed new emails conservative legal activist Tom Fitton sent to two Trump advisers a few days before the election. A draft statement for Trump to make on Election Night is contained in one email.
Committee members interviewed Ginni Thomas last month but ultimately her testimony was not featured as part of the panel’s last hearing before the midterm election.
She was absent because the panel used testimony from other high-profile witnesses who were interviewed since the committee’s most recent hearing.
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The January 6 committee voted to subpoena him after laying bare his depraved efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and his neglect of duty as his mob invaded the US Capitol.
But the developments that could hurt Trump the most happened off stage. They show the enormous legal thicket surrounding the ex- President who has not been charged with a crime yet, and the distance that still needs to be traveled to account for his chaotic exit from power and presidency.
Since everything about Trump’s political career has been unprecedented, it’s hardly surprising that his political reemergence is posing new questions with the potential to further challenge and damage the country’s political institutions.
The Supreme Court said it had no desire to get sucked into the Justice Department probe into classified material Donald Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago, as the House select committee hearing went on.
The court turned down his emergency request to intervene, which could have delayed the case, without explaining why. Conservative Supreme Court justices who were elevated to the bench and who Trump thinks owe him a debt of loyalty were not dissented.
There is still a lot of political drama going on on January 6, but it is the clash over the classified documents that has the potential to give rise to true criminal exposure of the former President.
Television stations beamed a blanket coverage of the committee hearing, but there were more hints that the ex President might face more serious legal problems in the new year. Unlike the House’s version, the DOJ’s criminal probe has the power to draw up indictments.
Marc Short, a former chief of staff for then-Vice President Mike Pence, was spotted leaving a courthouse in Washington, DC. Short had been compelled to testify to the grand jury for the second time, according to a person familiar with the matter, CNN’s Pamela Brown reported. A Trump adviser, Kash Patel, was seen walking into an area where a jury is meeting. He wouldn’t tell reporters what he was doing.
CNN reported Wednesday that an employee of Trump told the FBI that the former president had ordered him to remove boxes from a basement storage room at his club in response to a subpoena. The FBI also has surveillance footage showing a staffer moving the boxes.
It is troubling since it would suggest a pattern of deception that plays into a possible obstruction of justice charge. On the initial search warrant before the FBI showed up at Trump’s home in August, the bureau told a judge there could be “evidence of obstruction” at the resort.
Still, David Schoen, who was Trump’s defense lawyer in his second impeachment, told CNN’s “New Day” that though the details of what happened at Mar-a-Lago raised troubling questions, they did not necessarily amount to a case of obstructing justice.
Those aren’t even the only probes connected to Trump. There is an ongoing investigation in Georgia regarding the attempts by the former President and his allies to overturn the election in a crucial 2020 swing state.
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Trump came out fighting on Thursday, one of those days when the seriousness of a crisis can be gauged by the vehemence he uses to respond.
The select committee voted 9-0 to subpoena the former President for documents and testimony, but first Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich mocked the vote.
“Pres Trump will not be intimidate(d) by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions. Trump-endorsed candidates will win the Midterms and restore America First leadership and solutions.
The former President weighed in on his Truth social network with a post that didn’t answer accusations against him and it was clearly designed to stir a political reaction from his supporters.
I was asked to testify months ago by the Unselect Committee. Why waited until the last moment of their meeting? Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST,’” Trump wrote.
Trump’s attorney, David Warrington, said in a statement with the release of the lawsuit in part that “long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to testify before it.”
Subpoenaing the 2016 Jan. 6 attack by the House Judiciary Select Committee on Investigating and Preventing any future Congressional investigations
The investigation was not only about what happened on January 6, but about the future, as stated by Liz Cheney, the committee’s Republican vice chair.
We chip away at the foundation of our Republic with every effort to excuse or justify the conduct of the former President, said a Wyoming lawmaker who will not be returning to congress after losing her primary to a Trump backed challenger.
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump if he testifies before them.
It is not mentioned in the resolution that created the committee that the task of determining whether or not someone broke the law is done. Its main goal is to give an authoritative account of what occurred and identify failures by law enforcement and other causes of the violence, and give recommendations to prevent it from happening again.
The committee has become a front loader for the Department of Justice, coming up with new evidence to examine the laws that may have been violated by Mr. Trump and his aides.
Committee staff members — many of whom are former prosecutors — employed a strategy of highlighting a range of potential crimes or lanes for investigators to pursue at each of the panel’s public hearings.
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Other hearings focused on whether Mr. Trump and his aides committed the crimes of defrauding the American people or obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. At one point members asked if Mr. Trump had committed witness tampering.
“The purpose of this committee is to ensure that we tell the full truth, allow government officials to make changes to the system, to improve our guardrails, allow the American people to make better decisions about who they elect, and also to encourage D.O.J. to do their job,” Representative Stephanie Murphy, Democrat of Florida, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Former President Donald Trump and his movement are posing new challenges to accountability, free elections and the rule of law, ushering in a fresh period of political turmoil.
At a time when he has a new collision course with the courts and facts, Trump dropped his clearest hint yet that he is running for president.
Trump never really went away after losing reelection in 2020, but a dizzying catalog of confrontations is vaulting him back into the center of US politics. It is likely to deepen the divisions of the nation. Next month’s mid-terms and the early stages of the 2024 presidential race are likely to be disrupted by Trump’s characteristic chaos.
Even if a potential presidential campaign was based on the ex- President’s claims of political persecution, it could cause even more upheaval than his four years in office.
And while fierce differences are emerging between Democrats and Republicans over policy on the economy, abortion, foreign policy and crime in the 2022 midterms – while concerns about democracy often rank lower for voters – there is every chance the coming political period revolves mostly around the ex-President’s past and future.
People from Trump are also stepping up their activity. Steve Bannon, who has a grassroots movement that is trying to install school boards and local election machinery, is going to expose the Biden “regime” in an appeal against a prison sentence given to him for disobeying a congressional subpoena. Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is calling on the Supreme Court to block an attempt to force him to testify in an investigation in Georgia over Trump’s election stealing effort.
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In Arizona, one of the ex-President’s favorite candidates, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake – a serial spreader of voter fraud falsehoods – is again raising doubts about the election system. “I’m afraid that it probably is not going to be completely fair,” Lake told AZTV7 on Sunday.
One of the most powerful pro-Trump Republicans, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the party’s number three leader in the House, told the New York Post last week that impeachment of Biden was “on the table.” South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, however, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” Sunday she did not want to see tit-for-tat impeachment proceedings after Trump was twice impeached. She said she was against the process being “weaponized.” But when asked whether Biden had committed impeachable offenses, she said: “That is something that would have to be investigated.”
An already pro-Trump Republican presence in Washington is likely to expand after the midterms. It is unclear if many of the candidates who are running for office will accept the result if they lose their races in just over two weeks.
On another politically sensitive front, the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud and grandy larceny trial begins in Manhattan on Monday. The trial of the ex-president could impact his business empire and cause new claims from him that he is being unfairly treated by the political party that elected him, thus creating yet another contentious element into election season. In a separate civil case, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has filed a $250 million civil suit against Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump Organization, alleging that they ran tax and insurance fraud schemes to enrich themselves for years.
Democrats have made their own attempts to return Trump to the political spotlight. President Biden compared pro- Trump supporters to fascists, and some campaigns tried to scare suburban voters by warning they are a danger to democracy.
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But raging inflation and spikes in gasoline prices appear to be a far more potent concern before voters head to the polls, which could spell bad news for the party in power in Washington.
The ex-President told supporters at a rally in Texas on Saturday regarding the possibility of a new White House bid, “I will probably have to do it again.”
Cheney told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “it may take multiple days, and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves.”
“This isn’t going to be, you know, his first debate against Joe Biden and the circus and the food fight that that became. This is a serious set of issues.
The committee has taken most depositions in public and on video, as well as using testimony in high-quality presentations. Its most sympathetic witnesses have been in person. While this has helped create a powerful narrative that has painted a picture of shocking derelictions of duty by Trump on January 6, it has also deprived viewers of seeing witnesses under cross examination. This makes it difficult to know if the committee’s case would stand up to the strictest of evidentiary requirements.
It would be difficult for the former President to dictate the terms of the exchanges and control how his testimony was used if he were to give video testimony over a long period of time.
If there is evidence a crime was committed, Garland would face a dilemma over whether the national interest lay in implementing the law to its full extent or whether the consequences of prosecuting a former commander in chief in a fractious political atmosphere could tear the country apart.
A decision to charge an ex-president running for a non-consecutive second White House term would undoubtedly cause a firestorm. But sparing him from accountability if there’s evidence of a crime would send a damaging signal to future presidents with strongman instincts.
“This is not a situation where the committee is going to give up on Donald Trump’s efforts to create a circus, as he is attempting to create,” Cheney said.
“We have informed the former President’s counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for deposition testimony starting on November 14th,” the committee said in the statement.
Among the many people found in the committee’s order is Roger Stone.
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“The committee has been working in a very collaborative way and I would anticipate we won’t have disagreements about that,” she said. “But we’ll have to make those decisions as we come to it.”
On the day the House ordered Trump to hand over documents, a judge sentenced Steve Bannon, Trump’s political advisor to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress.
The former president and his counsel were the subject of correspondence the committee received but did not provide additional information.
Sources familiar with the matter say that lawyers for Trump accepted service of the subpoena from the committee as of October 26. Trump criticized the committee but didn’t say if he would comply with the subpoena.
“In the days ahead, the committee will evaluate next steps in the litigation and regarding the former President’s noncompliance,” Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson and GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who serve as chair and vice chair of the committee respectively, said in a statement.
It also asked Trump to turn over all records of phone calls, text messages or communications with any members of Congress from December 18, 2020, to January 6, 2021; all of his communications on January 6 specifically, and any communications or efforts to contact other witnesses in the committee’s investigation.
The request asked for information relating to or referring to members of the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and other so-called radical groups from September 1, 2020 to the present. There are 19 categories in the panel’s document request.
When witnesses do not comply with subpoenas, the committee can hold them in contempt, but it cannot force them to comply quickly through the courts.
Thompson wrote that his approach appears to be a delay tactic given the timing and nature of your letter.
“The truth is that Donald Trump, like several of his closest allies, is hiding from the Select Committee’s investigation and refusing to do what more than a thousand other witnesses have done,” Thompson and Cheney wrote. “Donald Trump orchestrated a scheme to overturn a presidential election and block the transfer of power. He has a responsibility to answer questions from the American people.
If the House demanded that he reveal his conversations with Justice Department officials and members of Congress about the 2020 election, Trump said that it would violate the privilege protections he had built into the executive branch.
The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right wing lawyer John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the sources said.
While the criminal referrals would largely be symbolic in nature – as the DOJ has already undertaken a sprawling investigation into the US Capitol attack and efforts to overturn the 2020 election – committee members have stressed that the move serves as a way to document their views for the record.
Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told reporters Friday he expected to reach a decision on criminal referrals at Sunday’s virtual meeting. But Schiff reiterated on Sunday that the committee will wait to announce its decision until December 21, when it plans to present the rest of its report.
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“I think the more we looked at the body of evidence that we had collected, we just felt that while we’re not in the business of investigating people for criminal activities, we just couldn’t overlook some of them.”
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who leads the January 6 subcommittee tasked with presenting recommendations on criminal referrals to the full committee, said Thursday, “I think anyone who engages in criminal actions needs to be held accountable for them. We are going to spell that out.
“The gravest offense in constitutional terms is the attempt to overthrow a presidential election and bypass the constitutional order,” Raskin told reporters. “Subsidiary to all of that are a whole host of statutory offenses, which support the gravity and magnitude of that violent assault on America.”
The subcommittee’s attorneys met with the full panel several times this month to present their findings on referrals.
The House committee held him in criminal contempt for not turning over other documents and referred the matter to the Justice Department. The Justice Department has declined to indict Meadows for evading his subpoena, given his high level position in the Trump West Wing and claims of executive privilege.
Raskin also suggested Thursday that previous referrals to DOJ for contempt of Congress would not impact how the panel handles these criminal referrals.
He stated that there was a statutory process for making contempt of Congress happen. “But you know we will explain our decisions in detail – why we are making certain kinds of referrals for certain people and other kinds for others.”
In the midst of a legal fight to obtain Eastman’s emails, a federal judge ruled in March that Eastman, along with Trump, may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election. The FBI had a criminal investigation that resulted in it seizing Eastman’s phone, according to a court filing.
In the hearing, the committee walked through how Eastman put forward a legal theory that Pence could unilaterally block certification of the election – a theory that was roundly rejected by Trump’s White House attorneys and Pence’s team, but was nevertheless embraced by the former President.
Clark invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during his deposition with the committee. Federal investigators have raided Clark’s home as part of their own criminal investigation.
The panel dedicated much of a June hearing to Clark’s role in Trump’s attempts to weaponize the Justice Department in the final months of his term as part of the plot to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
The committee zeroed in on the efforts of Scott Perry, the Pennsylvania Republican who helped Clark get into the White House.
CNN has previously reported on the role that Perry played, and the committee in court filings released text messages Perry exchanged with Meadows about Clark.
“He wanted Mr. Clark – Mr. Jeff Clark to take over the Department of Justice,” Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Meadows aide, said about Perry in a clip of her deposition that was played at that hearing.
Giuliani, Trump’s onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, met with the panel in May for more than nine hours.
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection concluded its meeting on Sunday where members discussed criminal referrals, multiple sources told CNN.
The decision has loomed large over the committee. Trump and his closest associates have committed a crime when they tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as outlined by the panel, as they stated in their hearings. They have differing opinions on what to do about it.
There’s evidence that suggests that Trump may have committed crimes related to his efforts to overturn the election.
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He said it is an important decision if we go forward with it. The Department should give due consideration to that one.
Last week, Thompson had said the panel was looking to hold a hearing and release its final report on Wednesday, Dec. 21st. Now, the panel could follow its public Monday meeting with the release of the report two days later on Dec. 21st instead, Thompson said.
“We looked at the schedule, and it appears we can complete our work a little bit before that. So we need to get it to the public as soon as possible? Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters on Tuesday from the Capitol steps.
Ultimately, Thompson hinted the panel’s various referrals could fall into five or six categories, including criminal, House Ethics Committee complaints and referrals for discipline of attorneys through legal bar associations. Evidence that has never been seen before could be included in the referrals and recommendations.
For example, it’s possible the panel could consider ethics complaints for the five House Republicans who defied their subpoenas — including GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy. Thompson said that ethics complaints could be issued for members at the end of a congressional session.
The committee’s investigation has uncovered several attorneys connected to the 2020 presidential election plot, including lawyer John Eastman who pushed for the results to be overturned. Thompson said he wasn’t ready to rule anyone out.
“Any officer of the court who disrespects the ethics of a proceeding has to be reviewed by the committee”, Thompson said earlier this month. “But as a person who would consider a lawyer to have the highest possible ethical standards, I would have real issue with them not respecting those standards.”
Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, told NPR that the committee’s final report could be as long as 1,000 pages. On wednesday, the appendices and transcripts of over 1,000 witness interviews will be released.
The panel is likely to announce that it will refer at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to theJustice Department, including insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the federal government, according to a source.
The allegations of conspiracy to defraud the federal government match those made against Trump and his attorney in a previous court proceeding. A judge had agreed with the House, finding it could access Eastman’s emails about his 2020 election work for Trump because the pair was likely planning to defraud the US and engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct Congress, according to that court proceeding.
Cheung criticized the committee as akangaroo court that held show trials by Never Trumpers who are a stain on this country’s history.
The committee has been careful in crafting the recommendations and tied them to the facts that it has uncovered, according to Rep. Lofgren.
We spent a lot of time talking about the facts, which is very important when we discuss what we are going to do and we will have a vote on it.
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The Justice Department has largely focused on criminal statutes related to the violence, for obstructing a congressional proceeding and in some limited cases for seditious conspiracy, when charging defendants in connection with the attack on the US Capitol.
The committee will hold its final public meeting on Monday and the panel’s full report will be released Wednesday, according to Thompson. The Mississippi Democrat said the panel will approve its final report Monday and make announcements about criminal referrals to the Justice Department, but the public will not see the final report until two days later.
Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, said Sunday the panel is considering how to hold accountable the GOP lawmakers who defied their subpoenas.
“We will also be considering what’s the appropriate remedy for members of Congress who ignore a congressional subpoena, as well as the evidence that was so pertinent to our investigation and why we wanted to bring them in,” the California Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
The impact House referrals might have will not be known since the Department of Justice special counsel investigation is already examining Trump.
It was something we considered. The committee will make a decision on ethics referrals Monday, according to Schiff.
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Someone is trying to pressure state officials to find votes that don’t exist. Someone tried to disrupt a joint session and encouraged a mob to attack the Capitol. If that’s not criminal, then I don’t know what is,” he added.
Schiff declined to comment on the specific charges the committee is planning to refer to the Justice Department as it relates to the former president, but he made clear he thinks Trump violated multiple criminal statutes, including one for insurrection.
“I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws. And I think you have to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is, you have to be prosecuted,” he said.