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The State Committee of the House of Representatives on the events of January 6, published last night (Thursday) its final report, which summarizes an 18-month investigation after the events of the US Capitol in which a violent crowd stormed the House.
The damning 845-page report was released three days after the bipartisan panel voted unanimously to refer Trump to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation and possible prosecution over his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
The report comes weeks after Trump announced he would run again for the Republican presidential slot in 2024.
“Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a tyrant by elevating our democratic institutions, strengthening violence, and, as I have seen it, opening the door to those in our country whose hatred and bigotry threaten equality. Justice for all Americans,” wrote committee chairman Benny Thompson, In the introduction to the report.
Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in her introduction, “Every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority, except one. January 6, 2021 was the first time that an American president refused his constitutional duty to peacefully transfer power to another.”
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The first of the report’s eight chapters is titled “The Big Lie,” a reference to Trump’s repeated false claims that he won the election. This chapter notes that Trump made efforts even before Election Day to “delegitimize the election process” by suggesting that he would tamper with the voting process .
The second chapter, titled “I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes,” details Trump’s attempt to undermine the election commission’s results. The headline refers to what Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call, during which the president pressed Raffensperger to take steps that would nullify Biden’s victory in that state.
This chapter also details the extensive campaign by Trump and his allies to get Republican-controlled legislatures in states won by Biden to disconfirm the election results. “The Select Committee estimates that in the two months between the November election and the January 6th riots, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 alleged acts of public or private advocacy, pressure or condemnation, aimed at state or state legislators, to nullify the state’s election results,” it said. in the report.
“This included at least: 68 meetings, attempts, or connected phone calls, or text messages, each directed at one or more state or local officials; 18 instances of prominent public utterances where language was directed at one or more such officials; and 125 social media posts Social media of President Trump or senior aides targeting one or more such official, explicitly or implicitly, and primarily from his account,” the report said.
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