{"id":529380,"date":"2022-12-20T03:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jan-6-committee-goes-out-swinging\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T03:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T00:01:54","slug":"jan-6-committee-goes-out-swinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jan-6-committee-goes-out-swinging\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jan. 6 committee goes out swinging\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23269d55fe6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23269d55fe6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jan-6-committee-goes-out-swinging\/#Jan_6_committee_goes_out_swinging\" >Jan. 6 committee goes out swinging\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jan_6_committee_goes_out_swinging\"><\/span>Jan. 6 committee goes out swinging\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/jan6-2_121922gn.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The House committee investigating last year\u2019s attack on the U.S. Capitol is going out with guns blazing, using its final <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance on the public stage to recommend severe criminal charges against former President Trump and accuse four sitting GOP lawmakers \u2014 including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) \u2014\u00a0of ethical lapses for their refusal to cooperate with the probe.<\/p>\n<p>In their 10th public forum, panel members on Monday laid out the final findings of their marathon probe, which center on charges that Trump orchestrated a coup to remain in power despite his 2020 election defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the process, they also launched their most aggressive foray against Trump since the probe began 18 months ago, accusing the former president of inciting an insurrection, among other crimes, and advising the Justice Department to investigate the charges further \u2014 an undertaking the department has already begun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, beyond our findings, we will also show that evidence we\u2019ve gathered points to further action beyond the power of this committee or the Congress to help ensure accountability under law \u2014 accountability that can only be found in the criminal justice system,\u201d Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the select committee, said at the outset of Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>From a practical standpoint, the referrals are largely symbolic. The committee has no powers of prosecution, and the Justice Department is under no obligation to weigh the recommendations, let alone act on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet from a political perspective, the referrals are a remarkable escalation in advancing the investigators\u2019 overarching case that Trump not only summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest the results of the 2020 presidential contest, but also encouraged an armed crowd to march on the Capitol, then sat idle while the mob stormed into the building in a failed attempt to reverse Trump\u2019s election defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an utter moral failure\u00a0\u2014 and a clear dereliction of duty,\u201d said Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the vice chairwoman of the select committee and one of just two Republicans on the nine-member panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again,\u201d she continued. \u201cHe is unfit for any office.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The committee\u2019s move to endorse criminal charges marked something of a change of heart for Thompson, the chairman, who had\u00a0said in June\u00a0that the select committee was merely an investigative body \u2014 one that lacks the authority to make such recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, the panel has heard damning testimony from a long list of eyewitnesses to the events surrounding the Capitol attack,\u00a0including former Trump officials who were in the West Wing that day. And as the evidence piled up, the resistance to criminal referrals on the select committee seemed to erode, although not without some friction among members of the panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), another panel member, identified the \u201ctwo poles\u201d driving that internal discussion: There were members opposed to any criminal referrals, he said, and \u201cthose on the other end who said we should refer every single offense that we saw, of any type, no matter how central.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe ended up in the middle, with the idea that we should focus on the central actors with the major offenses,\u201d Raskin told reporters after Monday\u2019s forum. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what you heard today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The explicit criminal referrals target only two figures: Trump and John Eastman, a conservative lawyer and informal Trump adviser who was the architect of the legal scaffolding on which the \u201cstop the steal\u201d movement rested. The committee accused both men of obstructing an official proceeding, namely the transfer of power from one administration to the next, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also accused Trump of two additional crimes: inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6 and conspiracy to make false statements, referring to the campaign to seat a false slate of electors to back Trump even in certain states he lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Noticeably absent from the referral list were a number of close Trump allies who have been scrutinized by the select committee throughout the investigation, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer; Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff; and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official sympathetic to the \u201cstop the steal\u201d movement. Heading into Jan. 6, Trump wanted to install Clark at the top of the agency, where he might have abetted efforts to keep the former president in power.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin suggested there were several reasons for those omissions, including a lack of consensus among the investigators, a dearth of evidence to advance specific criminal charges and an absence of cooperation among certain witnesses. The panel is hoping the Justice Department picks up where the select committee \u2014 which sunsets at the end of this Congress \u2014\u00a0left off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll see that when you read the report that there are lots of other people named as actors. But we were stymied by virtue of the fact that not everybody would testify, lots of people took the Fifth Amendment. So with respect to other particular actors, like Clark or Giuliani, we just can\u2019t say because we don\u2019t have quite enough evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be up to the Department of Justice to determine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee also took aim at four sitting GOP lawmakers \u2014\u00a0McCarthy and Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.) \u2014\u00a0who had both supported Trump\u2019s false claims of a \u201cstolen\u201d election and had a unique window into the events on and around Jan. 6. All four had been issued subpoenas to testify before the committee, and all four refused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its final response, the investigators referred those lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee, though it\u2019s unclear if that panel \u2014\u00a0which is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans \u2014\u00a0will take up the issue when Republicans take over control of the House next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are already hammering those referrals as a political attack orchestrated by a select committee, initiated by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), that\u2019s been stacked from the start with Trump critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis referral is their final political stunt,\u201d Biggs said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s critics countered that ignoring a congressional subpoena without some form of punishment \u2014 even for sitting members of Congress \u2014 would set a dangerous example and undermine the effectiveness of Congress as an oversight body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt demands a complete investigation, and there should be something that reflects the punishment,\u201d said Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who is not a member of the Jan. 6 committee but was on hand to witness the final meeting of the panel.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThey have set a diabolical precedent,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>A bulk of Monday\u2019s forum was spent summarizing previous evidence and testimony indicating that Trump sought to remain in power at all costs. Yet the panel has also been conducting depositions and accepting new evidence in the three months since its last public hearing, in September, and Monday\u2019s forum featured some new details from those depositions, including new testimony from Hope Hicks, a former Trump adviser, who told investigators that there was no evidence of mass voter fraud in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was becoming increasingly concerned that we were damaging his legacy,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded that winning was more important, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>While Monday\u2019s meeting marked the final public forum for the nine-member committee, it\u2019s not the panel\u2019s final word. That will come on Wednesday, when the committee unveils its concluding report, which is expected to comprise eight chapters, each one focused on a prominent facet of the planning, orchestration and response to the Jan. 6 rampage at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said other materials gathered during the course of the panel\u2019s investigation \u2014 \u201cthe bulk of its nonsensitive documents\u201d \u2014 would be released before the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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