Final Report of the Select Committee’s Meeting: According to those briefed on the contents of the select committee’s final report, which is set to be released on January 6, it will begin with a lengthy executive summary detailing former President Donald Trump’s guilt for his vast and groundless campaign to disrupt the 2020 election.
Committee members have been working on draughts of the report for weeks, according to those who have been briefed, and it includes thousands of footnotes based on interviews and research conducted over the past 16 months into Trump’s activities in the weeks leading up to the violent uprising on January 6, 2021, when his supporters attacked police and stormed the Capitol.
At the public meeting of the committee mentioned by Chair Bennie Thompson on December 21st, the members are anticipated to formally approve the report (D-Miss.). Later this week, the manuscript will presumably be forwarded to the Government Publishing Office for publication after lawmakers have had a chance to offer any necessary final revisions.
According to individuals who have been given a sneak peek at the final report, it will consist of eight chapters that closely parallel the evidence presented by the panel during its public hearings in June and July:
- Trump’s effort to sow distrust in the results of the election
- Trump’s pressure on state governments or legislatures to overturn victories by Joe Biden
- Trump campaign efforts to send pro-Trump electors to Washington from states won by Biden
- Trump’s push to deploy the Justice Department in service of his election scheme
- The pressure campaign by Trump and his lawyers against then-Vice President Mike Pence
- Trump’s effort to summon supporters to Washington who later fueled the Jan. 6 mob
- The 187 minutes during which Trump refused to tell rioters to leave the Capitol
- An analysis of the attack on the Capitol
The report itself may not be confined to the executive summary and the eight chapters, according to a source involved with the development of the report, and is expected to include appendices that capture more parts of the committee’s research.
Coming up @MSNBC with @yasminv around 2:30p ET to discuss what’s most interesting with the Jan. 6 committee referrals and DOJ being denied holding Trump’s team in contempt
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) December 11, 2022
The whole report is expected to include the findings of all five investigating teams that looked into Trump’s activities, the mob, the role of extremism in the attack, the money trail behind Trump’s January 6 event, and law enforcement failures on that day.
Members of a House panel yesterday discussed urging criminal prosecutions against aides and allies of Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, and adjourned without announcing any decisions, @HouseInSession reports. https://t.co/IdLLqghGgU
— Zach C. Cohen (@Zachary_Cohen) December 12, 2022
The committee’s official spokesman said nothing. The report’s breakdown is consistent with what the committee has long called Trump’s “seven-part plan” to steal the 2020 election and secure a second term he did not earn.
The analysis of the incident provides a comprehensive explanation of the actual mob assault on the Capitol, including information about key personalities who provoked the breach and helped defeat police resistance. The report will likely provide further context for the committee’s unique case involving a deposed president’s attempt to disrupt a peaceful transition of power.
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Moreover, the evidence presented by the panel demonstrates that when all else failed, Trump drummed up a mob and steered it toward the Capitol. This included an attempt to pressure his vice president to single-handedly disrupt the process. There is evidence to imply that Trump was warned that there were guns present in the crowd.
The January 6th Committee is reportedly considering criminal referrals for Donald Trump and four others, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, for their role in January 6th.
The committee is scheduled to release its full report December 21. pic.twitter.com/51cTyaf3P2
— The Recount (@therecount) December 9, 2022
The panel relied on upon a thousand interviews with eyewitnesses, voluminous call records collected through subpoenas to phone providers, and voluntarily given text messages and emails to draw its conclusions. Extensive records from Trump’s time in the White House were obtained by the committee from the National Archives, providing a window into the action within the West Wing at the time.
Members of Trump’s inner circle and family, the Vice President’s office, the Justice Department, and Republican officials at the state and local level made up the bulk of the committee’s witnesses. The committee also received extensive evidence from attorney John Eastman’s emails amid protracted litigation.
The January 6 Committee will make its findings public next week.
But one thing is clear:
There is evidence of criminality.
And the Justice Department must act on it. pic.twitter.com/UYEeJPs3jv
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 11, 2022
Eastman was a key player in Trump’s last-ditch effort to remain in power. Legislative suggestions in the report’s massive volumes are intended to forestall future attacks and other threats to democratic norms.
Although the House and Senate are presently discussing legislation to alter the Electoral Count Act, the 135-year-old election statute Trump and his associates hoped to exploit, it seems unclear that Congress would take up most of the suggestions in the final weeks of this session. In light of Congress’s pressing year-end agenda, its route to final passage is unclear at best.
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