Trump news: Rattled Trump lashes out as Jan 6 panel finishes investigation and tax return release looms
Publication of House committee’s Jan 6 report comes as information on former president’s tax returns released earlier in week
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The House committee investigating the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot released its final report late on Thursday night, outlining why it has recommended Donald Trump and others face criminal charges over the insurrection.
Over 845 pages, the damning report details how the former president and his allies engaged in at least 200 acts attempting to overturn the 2020 election. The committee calls for him to never be allowed to hold office again.
“That evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed,” the report states.
“None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”
Among its other recommendations: swift passage of the Electoral Count Act; a series of disciplinary and criminal referrals; a whole of government strategy to counter violent extremism; and the reform of security arrangements and criminal statutes to include harsher penalties for threats to election workers and the peaceful transfer of power.
The publication of the report caps off another terrible week for Mr Trump that also included a vote by another House committee to release six years’ worth of his tax returns.
Trump laughed about Sidney Powell’s ‘crazy’ election fraud claims
One major theme of the House select committee’s investigation into the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol is that Donald Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election, but still perpetuated the lie that it had been stolen from him.
It has come up in testimony, of which transcripts are now available, as well as being covered by the public hearings.
In the committee’s final report, there is a section that includes testimony from Trump aide Hope Hicks sharing an anecdote about former president Trump laughing about one of the crazier election fraud conspiracies propagated by lawyer Sidney Powell.
Read on:
Jan 6 report reveals Trump laughed at Sidney Powell’s ‘crazy’ election fraud claims
It was one of the wackier election fraud conspiracies
Which Trump ally who was architect of fake elector plot?
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has revealed the identity of the Donald Trump ally accused of being the architect of the fake elector plot.
Rachel Sharp reports.
Jan 6 report reveals identity of Trump ally who was architect of fake elector plot
Plot involved putting forward fake electors in seven battleground states that President Joe Biden had won and having them cast fake electoral college votes in Donald Trump’s favour
Trump reacts furiously to Jan 6 report
Donald Trump has reacted furiously to the release of the full report from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, which found that he engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 presidential election and called for him to never be allowed to take office again.
Here’s what he said on Truth Social late on Thursday night and then on Friday morning.
Trump reacts furiously to Jan 6 report
Former president launched into an unhinged – and at times full caps – rant on his platform Truth Social on Friday morning
Trump rails against ‘deranged tax return witch hunt’
Trump rails against ‘deranged tax return witch hunt’ in three-minute video rant
Former president calls on the incoming GOP House to obtain Joe Biden’s financial records
The link between Trump, Nevada fake electors
New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the January 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.
The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on 14 December 2020.
Read on:
Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors
New transcripts released on Wednesday night by the House Jan. 6 committee reveals former president Donald Trump and his allies played a direct role in the Nevada Republican Party’s phony elector scheme in 2020
What were the key findings of the January 6 committee report?
Jan 6 report: Key findings from the House committee probe
The 845-page report was released on Thursday night, bringing to an end the 17-month-long investigation into the events surrounding the Capitol riot. Here are some of the highlights from the report:
Trump’s furious reaction to the Jan 6 report
Donald Trump has reacted furiously to the release of the full report from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, which found that he engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 presidential election and called for him to never be allowed to take office again.
Rachel Sharp reports.
Trump reacts furiously to Jan 6 report
Former president launched into an unhinged – and at times full caps – rant on his platform Truth Social on Friday morning
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