A House committee recommended Donald Trump be prosecuted for his role in the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, the first such referral of a former US president in the culmination of a 17-month investigation.
The committee voted unanimously Monday to refer Trump for prosecution for multiple offences including insurrection, which Representative Jamie Raskin said would disqualify the former president from holding office, if convicted.
The action adds to the troubles plaguing the 2024 re-election bid Trump launched last month. Another House committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to consider publicly releasing Trump’s tax returns, which he fought to keep private. The Ways and Means Committee obtained the documents after a lengthy court battle.
The committee vote is to be accompanied by a detailed final report on its investigation, laying out a case for Trump’s culpability for the mob attack. The committee has accumulated evidence including interviews with more than a thousand witnesses that it also plans to share with prosecutors and the public.
Hearings the committee held over the spring and summer regularly dominated their television time slots, with riveting insider accounts punctuating a case against Trump and key associates. Several publishers plan to rush out custom editions of the committee report in anticipation of reader interest. The panel also plans online multimedia presentations to amplify the impact of its findings.
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