Jan. 6 committee releases final report, says Trump should be barred from office

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 23, ARMENPRESS. The U.S. House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021,insurrectionrecommends barring former President Donald Trump from holding office again, CNN reports.

The recommendation is among the conclusions of the panel’sfinal report.

The 845-page report – based on 1,000-plus interviews, documents collected including emails, texts, phone records and a year and a half of investigation – includes allegations that Trump “oversaw” the legally dubious effort to put forward fake slates of electors in seven states he lost, arguing that the evidence shows he actively worked to “transmit false Electoral College ballots to Congress and the National Archives” despite concerns among his lawyers that doing so could be unlawful.

In a symbolic move Monday,the committee in its last public meeting referred Trump to the Justice Departmenton at least four criminal charges, while saying in its executive summary it had evidence of possible charges of conspiring to injure or impede an officer and seditious conspiracy.

“That evidence has led to an overriding and straight forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the report states.