“As a former attorney general, I believe there is enough evidence to prosecute the (former) president,” Adam Schiff told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The investigation has been going on for a year and a half. On Monday, the committee will present the eight parts of the group’s investigation and is expected to vote on recommending prosecution. The committee’s recommendation is important, but symbolic. Then it’s up to the Justice Department to decide whether charges should be brought.
The House committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, is tasked with investigating the former president’s actions before and during the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol.
The investigation was conducted in an effort to show that Trump’s rejection of the results of the 2020 election was not just the reaction of a bad loser, but an essential part of a strategy to defy the Constitution and stay in power.
Committee chairman Benny Thompson said Trump was at the center of an “attempted coup”.
Since the commission’s work began in July 2021, more than 1,000 interviews have been conducted and more than 1 million documents have been collected. In addition, the committee held ten public hearings, which attracted great interest.
The committee presentation will take place at 19:00 Swedish time. The group that investigated the break-in will be disbanded in connection with the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in early January.
Former President Donald Trump announced in November that he is running in the upcoming presidential election.
Web map image: Johan Hallnäs / TT
On January 6, 2021, members of the US Congress gather at the Capitol to count the electoral votes for the presidential election and officially designate Democrat Joe Biden as the winner and the next president.
At the same time, tens of thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally on the theme, “Save America.” At the meeting, Trump repeated his false claims of systemic voter fraud and claimed he was the real winner. He urged his supporters to go to Congress: “If you don’t get out, you won’t have a country anymore,” said the then-president.
Parts of the crowd did as he said. The protests turned violent when hundreds of people stormed the Congress building and clashed with the police. Some made it into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, as well as into one of the rooms. Parts of the building were vandalized.
Five people, including a policeman, died in connection with the attack.
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