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On January 6, the committee considers criminal recommendations for at least 4 others besides Trump



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House Select Committee Investigating January 6, 2021 Uprising Considers criminal recommendations for at least four people in addition to former US President Donald Trump, multiple sources told CNN.

panel weighs criminal recommendations for former head of the white house of employees Mark Meadows, right attorney John Eastman, former Ministry of Justice official Jeffrey Clark and Trump former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the sources said.

The Committee has not officially decided who to transfer to the Ministry of Justice for prosecution and for what offences, the sources said. Four people who are among those under consideration, and whose names have not been previously reported, open a window in the reasoning panel.

While criminal referrals will be largely symbolic in nature like the Department of Justice already undertook an extensive investigation at the US Capitol attack and efforts to cancel the 2020 elections – committee members stressed that move serves way document your views for in record.

representative for committee 6 January declined to comment.

Committee chairman Rep. Benny Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, said Thursday that committee members are expected to reach decision on criminal recommendations when participants meet virtually on Sunday.

Thompson told reporters about this. on Thursday how members evolved to the idea of release criminal recommendations as panelinvestigation started on.

“I think more we looked at body of the evidence we have collected just felt that until we in in business of investigation people for criminal activity, we just couldn’t help but notice some of them.”

Democratic Rep. Jamie Ruskin of Maryland, who chairs the 6 January subcommittee tasked with with submission of recommendations on criminal links to full committee, said on Thursday: “I think anyone who is engaged in criminal actions must be held accountable for them. And we’re going to say it out”.

“The worst crime in constitutional terms is an attempt to overthrow the presidential elections and circumvent the constitutional order, ”Raskin told reporters. “Auxiliary for all of it’s a whole bunch of offenses that support gravity and magnitude of this is a brutal attack on America.”

Raskin along with with Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Zoe Lofgren, both of California, and panelGOP Vice Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming, are members of the subcommittee.

Schiff told CNN that there is a “consensus” among attendees on directions and that the attendees are taking a unified approach. on that front.

Earlier this week, Thompson told reporters: “We will make recommendations. Relatively how many, we haven’t decided yet.” CNN previously reported that the committee is weighing Trump and a number of of his closest allies for criminal referrals.

Thompson said panel seeks to release final report and vote publicly on criminal recommendations on 21 December.

“There will be some form of public presentation. We haven’t decided exactly what it will be yet,” Thompson said.

The committee subpoenaed Meadows. for documents and statements in September of last year and he passed over more over 2,000 text messages he sent and received between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden’s inauguration. Text messages received by CNN reveal how high-ranking GOP officials, right-wing figures, and even Trump family participants discussed with Meadows that Trump should say and do after the election and in middle of insurrection.

The meadows didn’t turn over other papers he had and the House committee voted for him in criminal contempt of Congress for this and for his refusal to testify, referral of the case to the Department of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has declined indict Meadows for subpoena evasion due to his high position in Trump’s West Wing and Claims of executive privilege.

Ruskin also on Thursday proposed that previous referrals to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress has no effect how in panel handles these criminal referrals.

“We clearly neglected of Congressional directions before, and there’s a whole statutory process for to make it happen,” he said. “Notes know we will explain our decisions in in detail – why we make certain types of recommendations for definite people and other types for other”.

Eastman sat for Interview with in panel last year but invoke his Fifth Amendment rights that protect against self-accusation.

In the middle of legal fight to get Eastman’s emails, a federal judge ordered in March that Eastman, together with Trump may have planned crime because they tried to sabotage the January 6th congressional certification of presidential elections. The FBI seized Eastman’s phone. in June with of this is criminal investigation pursuant to a lawsuit from Eastman.

David O. Carter, federal judge in California ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails around January 6, 2021 that he tried to save secret from a select committee of the House of Representatives, who, after a lengthy trial battle, panel eventually received.

Carter’s argument was a decisive federal court admission that Trump’s interests in can be considered the abolition of elections criminal.

“illegality of the plan was clear,” Carter wrote.

At the hearing over summer, panel presented revelations that provided new Eastman’s understanding role as a central figure in Trump’s efforts to overthrow results of presidential elections in 2020. Eastman was part and parcel of the intense pressure campaign which Trump sent then-Vice President Mike Pence to force Pence help carry out plan to cancel elections results.

During the hearings, the committee how Eastman put forward legal theory that Pence could unilaterally block certification of the election is a theory that has been vehemently rejected by Trump’s White House lawyers and Pence. teambut was nevertheless accepted former The president.

Clark invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during his testimony with Committee. Federal investigators ransacked Clark’s home. home as part of them criminal the study.

former Ministry of Justice official was facing a criminal contempt of The direction of the Congress at the time when he refused to answer questions from the committee at the preliminary removal. The referral was never sent to the Department of Justice because on the day the committee voted on in contempt of court, Clark’s attorney told the committee that he planned to exercise his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions. on grounds on which he can convict him.

panel dedicated a lot of June Clark hearing role in Trump’s attempts to arm the Justice Department in in final months of his term as part of plot to cancel the 2020 election and stay in power.

Committee in specific nulled in on efforts of Rep. Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, who tied Clark to the White House in December 2020.

CNN previously reported on in role that Perry played, and the committee in Court documents reveal text messages exchanged by Perry with Meadows on Clark.

“He wanted Mr. Clark – Mr. Jeff Clark take over department of Justice, Cassidy Hutchinson former Meadows’ assistant, said about Perry in clip of her testimony, which was played at that hearing.

Giuliani, Trump’s former personal lawyer and lead architect of his attempt to cancel the 2020 election results, met with in panel in May for more than nine hours.

In its original subpoena, the committee alleges that Giuliani “actively promoted the claims of electoral fraud on on behalf of of in former President and sought to convince state legislators to pass steps cancel elections results”. Subpoena also stated that Giuliani was in contact with Trump and members of Congress “On Strategies for delay or cancellation results of elections of 2020”.

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