The House of Commons committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol will release its Fact Sheet today, although it has already presented its recommendations on indictments against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021).
The panel said they heard more than a thousand witnesses, reviewed millions of pages of documents and held 10 hearings as part of their investigation to corroborate the report.
The dissemination of the text comes after parliamentarians last Monday held the group’s final public hearing, where they voted unanimously to impeach the ex-president.
Lawmakers called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute Trump for inciting a riot and blaming him for obstructing an official process in Congress, attempting to defraud the United States, and conspiring to produce false electoral testimony before the bicameral legislature and that National Archives.
According to The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, his indictment has an important symbolic charge, although the panel does not have the power to impeach as it is the first time a parliamentary committee is proposing to hold a former president criminally responsible.
The Hill newspaper stressed that the leads mark the culmination of an 18-month investigation into the Jan. 6 attack and the role Trump played before, during and after the riots.
However, the Justice Department is under no obligation to investigate these leads, the outlet said.
On Jan. 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters attacked the federal capitol in a bid to halt confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election, in riots that left five dead and more than 140 police officers injured.
The committee spent more than a year arguing that the former ruler was directly at the center of efforts to annul the election and that he was ultimately responsible for the riots.
The DOJ must now decide whether to press charges against a former president, something unprecedented in the United States as the Republican leads his third campaign for the White House ahead of the 2024 vote.
In addition to investigating the magnate for his involvement in the events that undermined the peaceful transfer of power to Biden, the Justice Department is investigating the keeping of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion, more than a year after he left the Oval Office.
Latin Press