BREAKING NEWS: The Jan. 6 panel has sent all of its evidence against Trump to DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith
- The panel sent all of its documents and witness reports to the Justice Department
- Special Counsel Jack Smith wrote to the panel on December 12 asking for information
- Smith examines Trump for Jan. 6 and documents are taken to Mar-a-Lago
The Jan. 6 committee is working with the Justice Department’s special counsel investigating Donald Trump and is sending him all of their documents and witness transcripts, according to a new report Tuesday.
The panel began sending papers to Jack Smith last month after he sent the committee a letter on Dec. 5 requesting all materials collected as part of their 17-month investigation into the riot, Punchbowl News reported .
Smith has been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as special counsel on all Trump-related matters, including the former president’s actions in connection with the Jan. 6 riot and allegations that he had classified government documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.
The Jan. 6 committee is working with the Justice Department’s special counsel investigating Donald Trump
The committee has sent its evidence to Jack Smith, who has been appointed special counsel to investigate Donald Trump’s January 6 actions and the documents at Mar-a-Lago
Much of the information the panel provided relates to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorney John Eastman.
The panel, in its recommendations Monday, recommended that Eastman be charged alongside Trump for trying to stop confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Eastman had argued that Mike Pence, in his ceremonial role as vice president, could send voters back to the States. Several constitutional experts say the vice president has no such power.
The panel has sent the DoJ all of Meadows’ text messages, transcripts of interviews with several witnesses related to a plan to send voters back to the states and efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure states into annulling their election results .
It’s a change of direction for the House Committee, which has remained staunch in its findings throughout its investigation.
It published its summary of its findings on Monday. It is expected to release its full report on Wednesday.
Much of the information the panel shared relates to attorney John Eastman (left with Trump) and Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows (right).
Donald Trump at a rally on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021
The nine members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to Investigate the Attack voted unanimously to refer the former president to the Justice Department on charges of inciting insurrection, conspiring to defraud the United States, obstructing an act of Congress, and conspiring to make a false statement.
The panel also remanded Eastman to criminal prosecution on two charges, obstruction of an official process and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Trump then claimed to be the victim of Democrats who don’t want him running for the White House again – because he would win.
“People understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, is out to stop me from running for president because they know I’m going to win, and that this whole prosecuting me thing, right.” what the impeachment was like — a partisan attempt to take out me and the Republican Party,” he wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon.
“The falsified indictments brought by the highly partisan Unselect Committee on January 6 have already been filed, prosecuted and tried in the form of Impeachment Hoax #2. I WON convincingly. Double jeopard someone!” he added.
House officials collected more than 140,000 documents over the 17 months of the investigation and conducted more than 1,000 interviews with Trump aides, rioters and officials they claim were directly or indirectly involved in the riots.