Jan. 6 committee co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney focused her opening remarks on how former Pres. Trump was the first president in American history to refuse a peaceful transfer of power and argued he should never be allowed to hold office again.
House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its last public hearing, December 19, 2022 in Washington, DC.The House select committee's 18-month-long investigation into the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, came to a dramatic close Monday when members voted unanimously to make multiple criminal referrals to the Justice Department over former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"We understand the gravity of each and every referral we are making today, just as we understand the magnitude of the crime against democracy that we describe in our report," said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. "But we have gone where the facts in the law lead us, and inescapably, they lead us here."Committee refers Trump to DOJ on 4 criminal charges
Raskin pointedly said that "the starting point" of the committee's analysis was how a federal judge in March already found Trump's and Eastman's pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct the congressional count of electoral votes "more likely than not" violated two of the statutes: obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Footage of rioters breaching the Capitol obtained by the the committee was aired, along with photographs showing then-Vice President Mike Pence sheltering-in-place in the Capitol complex as the violence unfolded.Co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney focused on how Trump was the first president in American history to refuse a peaceful transfer of power and was blunt in belief that he should never be allowed to hold office again.
"No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again," she added. "He is unfit for any office."The committee is also referring multiple House Republicans to the House Ethics Committee over failure to comply with lawful subpoenas.
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