The January 6 House select committee probing President Donald Trump for alleged crimes related to the attack involving his supporters on the US Capital on January 6, 2021, will officially end on Tuesday. The panel has completed a whirlwind 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol insurrection and sent its reports to Justice Department along with a recommendation for prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
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The panel released an 814-page final report on its findings after an 18-month investigation.
“Accountability is now critical to thwarting any other future scheme to overturn an election,” said Chairperson Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Vice Chairperson Liz Cheney Wyoming in a statement.
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“We have made a series of criminal referrals, and our system of Justice is responsible for what comes next,” the statement read.
While the majority of the committee’s work has been public, some of it, including video-recorded interviews of witnesses, won’t be immediately available to the public.
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Videos and some other records were sent to the National Archives and would have to be made public in at least 50 years, following the law.
The committee’s investigation concluded with it finding that former President Trump coordinated a multi-level “conspiracy,” and was an inspiration for a violent mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol to try and disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
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California Representative Zoe Lofgren said, “This is the most intense investigation I have been involved in.” He has been in the House of Representatives for nearly 30 years.
“I have never been involved in anything as wide-ranging and intense,” Lofgren added.
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The panel’s reports have been sent to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and it will now be up to the DOJ to decide what happens next.