It is expected that the committee will ask Attorney General Merrick Garland to charge and investigate Trump for several offenses. Among them are “sedition,” “obstruction of the official proceedings of Congress,” and “conspiracy to defraud the United States,” a source told CNN. The vote marks the end of an extensive investigation that has been ongoing for a year and a half. – Donald Trump broke the people’s trust in the electoral system, said the panel’s leader Bennie Thompson in the introduction to the meeting. – Trump is unfit to govern, said the Republican representative Liz Cheney, who is the deputy chairman of the committee. COMMITTEE LEADERS: Congressional Intelligence Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (front) and Vice Chairman Liz Cheney (back) during the panel’s final meeting on December 19. Cheney lost his seat in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections this fall. Photo: ANDREW HARNIK / AFP If the committee asks the Minister of Justice to issue a charge, there are still a number of stages that remain before he is possibly prosecuted and a trial is held. It is only up to the Ministry of Justice and Minister Garland whether a charge should be brought. A judge must then decide if there is a basis for an indictment. INVESTIGATION: Documents that should have been requested by the FBI at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August are strewn across a carpet. The image is shared by the US Department of Justice. Photo: JOSE ROMERO / AFP The committee’s panel will also summarize Trump’s efforts to remain in the presidency. Among other things, the committee believes that Trump encouraged his supporters to storm Congress and tried to overturn the election results by using fake voters. Facts about the congressional investigation committee Photo: POOL / AFP The House of Representatives in Congress established an investigation committee in July 2021 to investigate what led to the storming of the congressional building in Washington on January 6 of the same year. The committee will try to determine the circumstances surrounding the storming and what role then-President Donald Trump and his associates played. The committee has nine members and is chaired by civil rights activist and Democrat Bennie G. Thompson. Two Republicans are on the committee, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom have been condemned by their own party for their participation. The committee has interviewed over 1,000 people and has reviewed over 125,000 documents and large amounts of video and audio recordings from the dramatic events that cost five people their lives. On 9 June, the start was made for an open and televised hearing where many witnesses will explain themselves and the committee will present parts of its material. The hearing is expected to last until the end of July. The committee is scheduled to present its final report in September. On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington to protest the election results. Around 2,000 broke into the Congress. Five people died and 128 police officers were injured. – Enough evidence On Sunday, Democrat Adam Schiff told CNN that there is “enough evidence” to charge Trump and several of his closest associates. Schiff is one of the Democrats’ representatives for California and a key member of the panel. ASSEMBLED FOR THE LAST TIME: The Congressional Investigative Committee convened for the last time on Capitol Hill on December 19, 2022. Adam Schiff is among the panel’s members (3rd from left) Photo: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / Reuters A federal court judge in California, wrote in March in year that there is evidence that Trump is guilty of both “obstruction of the official proceedings of Congress” and “conspiracy to defraud the United States”. Carter wrote that in an assessment of emails between Trump and his lawyer John Eastman. Asking for a charge of “sedition” would be a more radical decision by the Congressional Committee. This offense carries a penalty of up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. May request that more people be charged The Committee may request that more people be charged for their involvement in the storming of Congress. Among them are lawyer John Eastman and Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. John EastmanLawyer, former law professor at Chapman University and founder of the conservative think tank Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Risks the congressional committee is seeking impeachment on the following grounds: A central part of the effort to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election.Falsely conveyed to Vice President Mike Pence that Pence had the constitutional right to block the certification of the election results. Sent a detailed plan to Senator Mike Lee that involved throwing out the electoral delegates from seven states. Asked Mike Pence to violate election law to delay certification of election. Mark Meadows Member of the far-right Tea Party wing of the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s chief of staff from 2020 to 2021. Congressman for North Carolina from 2013 to 2020. Pressed the US Department of Justice to investigate allegations of voter fraud after the 2020 presidential election. Sent a detailed plan to Vice President Mike Pence to reverse election results via email, New Year’s Eve 2020. Rudy GiulianiFormer mayor of New York (1994 to 2001). Donald Trump’s personal attorney from April 2018 to July 2021. Promoted several lawsuits on behalf of Trump following the 2020 presidential election. Promoted false allegations of election fraud and an “international communist conspiracy”. In addition, the committee is expected to ask the House Ethics Committee to investigate several Republican congressmen who failed to comply with subpoenas. On July 22 this year, Trump’s former campaign manager and close adviser Steve Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress after refusing to testify in the January 6 hearings. The punishment was four months in prison and a $6,500 fine.
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