Donald Trump to face charges for Capitol riot, says committee

• A congressional committee may propose 3 criminal charges against Trump.
• The House select committee will accuse a previous president of rebellion.
• It advocates charging Trump with rebellion, obstruction of justice, and fraud.

Three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump are expected to be recommended by the congressional investigation into the Capitol incident last year.

According to US media, a former US president will face an unprecedented rebellion accusation from the House of Representatives select committee.

The panel’s final report is anticipated to be released the following week.

On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to prevent Joe Biden from being sworn in as president.

The justice department, which is already looking into Mr. Trump’s involvement in the rioting, is not required to take any referrals from congressional committees into account.

Mr. Trump denies wrongdoing. On Friday his spokesman, Steven Cheung, said in a statement: “The January 6th un-Select Committee held show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country’s history.”

On Monday, the select committee will convene for the last time and present any charging recommendations.

Several media outlets have reported that the panel will also recommend that Mr. Trump be prosecuted with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to defraud the United States in addition to rebellion.

The final eight-chapter report, based on interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses, is anticipated to be approved by the nine panelists and sent to the Department of Justice (DoJ).

The whole report will be made public on Wednesday, according to the select committee’s chairman, Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson.

California congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, another member of the panel, told Media on Friday that the lawmakers have “been very careful in crafting these [charging] recommendations and tethering them to the facts that we’ve uncovered”.

The House Select Committee has argued that Mr. Trump circulated rumors about a rigged 2020 election that he knew were untrue before exerting pressure on state authorities, the justice department, and his own vice president to assist in overturning his defeat.

The panel charges him with inciting the Capitol riot in an effort to hold onto power.

The Department of Justice is already looking into what the then-Republican president did in relation to the unrest.

The House impeached Mr. Trump a second time for inciting an uprising seven days after the raid on Congress.

The US Senate exonerated Mr. Trump, the first president to have ever been twice impeached.

A veteran war crimes prosecutor was chosen by Attorney General Merrick Garland last month to determine whether Mr. Trump should be charged with a crime.

The goal for Jack Smith is to decide whether the 2024 presidential candidate should be tried for improper handling of sensitive documents that were discovered during an FBI search of Mr. Trump’s Florida home in August, or for inciting the violent mob on January 6, 2021.

In connection with the widespread infiltration of Congress, hundreds of persons have been accused of crimes.

Numerous of them have been found guilty, including Stewart Rhodes, the head of the far-right militia the Oath Keepers, and Doug Jensen, who prosecutors have called the “poster boy” of the riots for being one of the first to enter the Capitol.

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