With the explosive public hearings officially underway, multiple members of the January 6th House Select Committee have spoken out over the weekend to highlight the copious amount of evidence they have collected and are in the process of displaying against former President Donald Trump and his role in inciting the deadly violence at the Capitol building on that fateful day.
Now, the Daily Mail has compiled a list, so to speak, of all the panel members who have publicly spoken out this weekend and pointed out that the committee has collected and presented more than enough evidence for the Department of Justice to move forward with a criminal investigation into indicting ex-President Donald Trump.
Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff said, “I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump or anyone else.”
“They need to be investigated if there’s credible evidence, which I think there is,” Schiff later added.
Throughout the hearing, lawmakers have pointed out that the violent Capitol attack was “no accident,” but rather “Trump’s last stand” in a desperate attempt to overthrow Joe Biden’s election win and scheme his way back into the White House for a second term that wasn’t rightfully his.
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And, as it stands, the hearings aren’t even over yet. Additional evidence against the corrupt ex-president will be revealed this week throughout the second leg of the bombshell public hearings, which committee members say will expose Donald Trump and his advisors’ “massive effort” to spread blatant lies and misinformation across the nation and heavily pressure the Trump DOJ to embrace his Big Lie and act accordingly.
Many committee members were unanimous in their opinion that their most important viewer throughout this hearing is likely Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland — and none of them were shy in their own opinion on whether or not the evidence they’ve compiled is sufficient for an investigation and indictment into the disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president.
“‘Once the evidence is accumulated by the Justice Department, it needs to make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the president’s guilt or anyone else’s,” Schiff stated.
Schiff seemingly took a thinly-veiled jab at Garland when he stated that there were “certain actions” and “lines of effort to overturn the election” that he did not “see evidence the Justice Department is investigating.”
“I’d like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity, on the part of Donald Trump or anyone else. The rule of law needs to apply equally to everyone,” Rep. Adam Schiff tells @MarthaRaddatz. https://t.co/HYLZ8HHshy pic.twitter.com/4n2UgI1A7e
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 12, 2022
Rep. Jamie Raskin, on the other hand, said he won’t “browbeat” Garland or the DOJ, but made it clear that he believes the evidence speaks for itself against Donald Trump.
“I think that he knows, his staff knows, the U.S. attorneys know, what’s at stake here,” Raskin stated. “They know the importance of it, but I think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent in history as well, as the facts of this case.”
“Do you believe the Justice Department should indict the former president?”@DanaBashCNN questions member of the House Select Committee investigating January 6 @RepRaskin about potential criminal charges against former President Trump over the Capitol attack. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/c14NvhGC8E
— CNN (@CNN) June 12, 2022
Rep. Elaine Luria has also spoken out and hinted that the forthcoming will highlight Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty.”
“You know, it’s been reported previously that the phone logs at the White House on that day. They’re missing information,” Luria said, referencing the documented 187-minute window between the time Trump’s rioters breached the Capitol building and the time that Donald Trump finally called his rabis supporters to stand down.
“We’ve pieced together a very comprehensive tick tock timeline of what he did. And then 187 minutes, you know, this man had the microphone; he could speak to the whole country. His duty was to stand up and say something and try to stop this,” Elaine said. “So, we’ll talk about that and what I see to be his dereliction of duty, and he had a duty to act.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a staunch anti-Trump Republican and committee member, said, “Let me tell you my belief that I can say right now, the president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people and he tried to do it initially through misinformation, through the Department of Justice, through pressuring the Vice President, and then on January 6.”
“And so I think it’s pretty obvious he knew, but he didn’t want to lose.”
Kinzinger later added, “If the president truly believed that, for instance, he’s not mentally capable to be president.”
AG Garland has not specifically confirmed how he will proceed with regard to the ex-president, despite widespread backlash throughout the nation for a perceived lack of action against Donald Trump. However, during his speech at Harvard University’s commencement ceremony last month Garland said, “We will follow the facts wherever they lead.”
In March, a federal judge in California ruled in a civil case that ex-President Trump “more likely than not” committed federal crimes in his efforts to obstruct the congressional count of the Electoral College ballots on Jan. 6, 2021.
Read the full report from the Daily Mail here.
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