The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, put together a special committee to examine what happened on January 6, 2021. The committee has finished its work. The committee will tell the Department of Justice about four possible crimes that Trump could be charged with.
If you’re willing to think about them, here are four suggestions.
Trump’s legal team made up evidence in the United States to support his claim that he had nothing to do with starting or helping a violent uprising. Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Mark Meadows, and Jeffrey Clark are his close friends. The Department of Justice knew this.
Also, the J6 committee had sent four Republican lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee for not showing up when they were asked to testify.
Andy Biggs, who is currently the minority leader and is from Arizona; Scott Perry, a lawmaker from Pennsylvania; Kevin McCarthy, the head of the California Republican Party; or Jim Jordan himself are the most likely people to take over as speaker of the House (an Ohio native and the current speaker).
Rep. Jordan’s spokesman, Russell Dye, called the referral to the Ethics Committee “just another partisan and political stunt by a Select Committee that knowingly changed evidence, blocked minority representation on a Committee for the first time in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives, and didn’t respond to Mr. Jordan’s many letters and concerns about how political and legitimate the Committee’s work was.”
Since Congress can’t make sanctions work, these referrals are usually pointless. Even so, these resolutions may be more than just a way for the legislature to show how much they dislike the former president. They may be a way for Democrats to put more pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring charges, no matter how weak, because of how President Biden manipulated the DOJ.
The Department of Justice has not publicly said anything about the committee’s criminal recommendations.