The committee’s remaining report will embrace a “public presentation,” committee chair Bennie Thompson mentioned.
The Home choose committee investigating the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol constructing and efforts by members of the Trump marketing campaign to overturn the end result of the 2020 presidential election will ship a remaining report of their findings on December 21.
The discharge date of the report, which will probably be round 102 weeks after the assault passed off, was announced by January 6 committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) on Wednesday.
Particulars on how the committee will current its report back to the American folks stay minimal, though Thompson has instructed to reporters {that a} public, “formal presentation” will accompany the report.
“There’ll be some type of public presentation, we haven’t determined precisely what that’ll be,” Thompson said.
Along with releasing the report, the committee may also announce the people that it’ll consult with the Division of Justice (DOJ) for prison expenses, primarily based on the panel’s year-and-a-half lengthy investigation. Whom these referrals will goal, and for what causes, is presently unknown, and members of the committee have mentioned they are planning to meet this Sunday to finalize the list.
“We need to be sure nobody slips via the cracks. We need to make it possible for the important thing organizers and movers of this assault don’t escape the scrutiny of the justice system,” committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said.
In response to a number of sources who spoke to CNN, the committee is contemplating referrals for a minimum of 5 folks, together with former President Donald Trump, who, throughout a rally on the morning of January 6, falsely alleged that he had misplaced the 2020 presidential election attributable to fraud and urged a mob of his loyalists to descend upon the Capitol.
Trump engaged on this incendiary rhetoric understanding that a few of his supporters have been armed, the committee found over the course of the investigation.
Along with a doable prison referral for Trump (primarily based on his speech and different actions he took to remain within the White Home), the committee is considering referrals for:
Legal referrals by the January 6 committee have had combined outcomes to this point. Steve Bannon, for instance, a former Trump administration official who remained loyal to the president and who defied a subpoena to seem earlier than the committee, was charged and prosecuted by the Justice Division following a prison referral from the committee; nevertheless, the DOJ refused to cost Meadows on the identical foundation that the committee had referred Bannon for.
However the committee nonetheless considers the referral course of to be an essential one. Though largely symbolic (provided that the DOJ has already opened an investigation into January 6), the committee nonetheless believes that their referrals might function a way to “doc their views for the report” to the division, CNN reported.
