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4A Thursday, December 22, 2022
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
NATION
Jan. 6 panel prepares to unveil final report on insurrection
JIM LO SCALZO I Associated Press
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., center, speaks as the House select committee
investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Dec. 19. From left, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Thompson and Vice Chair Liz
Cheney, R-Wyo.
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An
800-page report set to be
released Thursday by House
investigators will conclude
that then-President Donald
Trump criminally plotted to
overturn his 2020 election
defeat and “provoked his
supporters to violence” at
the Capitol with false claims
of widespread voter fraud.
The resulting Jan. 6,2021,
insurrection of Trump’s fol
lowers threatened democ
racy with “horrific” brutality
toward law enforcement and
“put the lives of American
lawmakers at risk,” accord
ing to the report’s executive
summary.
“The central cause of
January 6th was one man,
former President Donald
Trump, who many others
followed,” reads the report
from the House Jan. 6 com
mittee, which is expected to
be released in full on Thurs
day. “None of the events of
January 6th would have hap
pened without him.”
Ahead of the report’s
release, the committee
on Wednesday evening
released 34 transcripts
from the 1,000 interviews
it conducted over the last
18 months. Most of those
released are of witnesses
who invoked their Fifth
Amendment right against
self-incrimination.
The report’s eight chap
ters of findings will largely
mirror nine hearings this
year that presented evidence
from the private interviews
and millions of pages of doc
uments. They tell the story of
Trump’s extraordinary and
unprecedented campaign to
overturn his defeat and his
pressure campaign on state
officials, the Justice Depart
ment, members of Congress
and his own vice president to
change the vote.
A 154-page summary of
the report released Mon
day detailed how Trump, a
Republican, amplified the
false claims on social media
and in public appearances,
encouraging his support
ers to travel to Washington
and protest Democrat Joe
Biden’s presidential elec
tion win. And how he told
them to “fight like hell” at
a huge rally in front of the
White House that morning
and then did little to stop the
violence as they beat police,
broke into the Capitol and
sent lawmakers running for
their lives.
It was a “multi-part con
spiracy,” the committee
concludes.
The massive, damning
report comes as Trump is
running again for the presi
dency and also facing mul
tiple federal investigations,
including probes of his role
in the insurrection and the
presence of classified docu
ments at his Florida estate.
A House committee is
expected to release his tax
returns in the coming days
— documents he has fought
for years to keep private.
And he has been blamed by
Republicans for a worse-
than-expected showing in the
midterm elections, leaving
him in his most politically
vulnerable state since he
won the 2016 election.
It is also a culmination of
four years of a House Dem
ocratic majority that has
spent much of its time and
energy investigating Trump
and that is ceding power to
Republicans in two weeks.
Democrats impeached
Trump twice — both times
he was acquitted by the Sen
ate — and investigated his
finances, his businesses, his
foreign ties and his family.
But the Jan. 6 probe has
been the most personal for
the lawmakers, most of
whom were in the Capitol
when Trump’s supporters
stormed the building and
interrupted the certification
of Biden’s victory.
While the lasting impact
of the probes remains to
be seen — most Republi
cans have stayed loyal to
the former president — the
committee’s hearings were
watched by tens of millions
of people over the summer.
And 44% of voter sin Novem
ber’s midterm elections said
the future of democracy was
their primary consideration
at the polls, according to AP
VoteCast, a national survey
of the electorate.
“This committee is near
ing the end of its work, but
as a country we remain
in strange and uncharted
waters,” said the panel’s
chairman, Democratic Rep.
Bennie Thompson of Missis
sippi, at the meeting Monday
to adopt the report and rec
ommend criminal charges
against Trump. “We’ve
never had a president of
the United States stir up a
violent attempt to block the
transfer of power. I believe
nearly two years later, this is
still a time of reflection and
reckoning.”
The “reckoning” commit
tee members are hoping for
is criminal charges against
Trump and key allies. But
only the Justice Department
has the power to prosecute,
so the panel sent refer
rals recommending the
department investigate the
former president on four
crimes, including aiding an
insurrection.
While its main points are
familiar, the Jan. 6 report
will provide new detail from
the hundreds of interviews
and thousands of docu
ments the committee has
collected. Transcripts and
some video are expected to
be released as well over the
coming two weeks. Republi
cans take over the House on
Jan. 3, when the panel will be
dissolved.
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