The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report accuses Donald Trump of a criminal, ‘multi-part conspiracy’ to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and failed to do anything to stop his supporters ransacking the U.S. Capitol.
The panel’s members released their 845-page report on Thursday evening, after interviewing more than 1000 witnesses
‘The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,’ reads the report. ‘None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.’
In a foreword, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked the committee for its efforts.
‘As the select committee concludes its work, their words must be a clarion call to all Americans: to vigilantly guard our democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defense of our Constitution,’ she said.
The report’s chapter titles alone tell the story.
Starting from the ‘Big Lie,’ and ‘I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes,’ as Trump and his allies looked to find evidence that they had been cheated, to the ‘Coup in Search of a Legal Strategy,’ as they formulated a way to prevent Congress certifying Joe Biden’s victory, it builds a crescendo before reaching, ‘Be There Will be Wild.’
Former President Donald Trump was quick to hit back on Thursday evening, posting a response minutes after the report was published. He blamed Nancy Pelosi for the violence
‘The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the ‘Peacefully and Patrioticly’ words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud,’ he wrote on Truth Social with a characteristic display of capital letters and misspellings. ‘WITCH HUNT!’
After setting out its charges on Monday, on Wednesday and Thursday it released more than 40 witness statements. They showed that more than 20 witnesses had invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.
