Former President Donald Trump and some of his allies may have conspired to “commit fraud and obstruction to annul the presidential elections of 2020, according to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill.
In a court filing in a California civil case, committee attorneys first exposed his theory of a potential criminal case against former President Trump.
They claimed there was amassing evidence showing that Trump, conservative attorney John Eastman and other allies could be powerful indicted for criminal violations, including obstruction of official congressional proceedings and conspiracy to defraud to the American people.
The presentation also said that men could have violated a common law statute against fraud through “Trump’s repeated lies” that the election had been stolen.
The presentation revealed only limited new evidence, and the committee asked the judge in the civil case to review the relevant material behind closed doors. In asserting the potential for criminality, the committee relied heavily on extensive and detailed accounts already made public of the actions Trump and his allies took to keep him in office after his defeat.
The committee aggregated information from its more than 550 interviews with state officials, Justice Department officials and top Trump advisers , among others.
He said, for example, that Jason Miller, Trump’s top campaign adviser, had said in a statement before the committee that a campaign data expert had told Trump shortly after the day of the election “in pretty blunt terms” that he was going to lose, suggesting that Trump was well aware that his months of claims about stolen elections were false.
The evidence collected by the committee “provides, at a minimum, a good faith basis for concluding that President Trump has violated” the Obstruction count, said the filing, written by Douglas N. Letter, the House’s general counsel.
“The select committee also has a good faith basis to conclude that the president and members of his campaign participated in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” it added.
The filing said that a ” Review of materials may reveal that the President and members of his campaign committed common law fraud in connection with their efforts to overturn the election results of 2020”.
The panel, which is controlled by Democrats, is a legislative committee and has no authority to charge the former president, or anyone else, with a crime.
But The filing contains the clearest indication yet of the committee’s direction, as it considers making a criminal referral to The Justice Department against Trump and his allies, a move that could pressure Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to take on the case.
The Justice Department has said little of substance about whether it could ultimately proceed with a case.
The presentation laid out a broad, though now well-established, account of the plot to nullify the election, featuring false claims of voter fraud, plans to feature pro-Trump “alternative” voters, lobbying various federal agencies to find wrongdoing and ultimately pressure Vice President Mike Pence and Congress to exploit the Voter Count Act to keep a losing president in power.
It should be mentioned that the past 22 in February, a federal judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempts to dismiss the lawsuits he faces for conspiracy that were filed by legislators and Capitol police, suggesting in his ruling that the words of the former president were leading to the decision of insurrection on January 6, 2021. 2022
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