The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection claims former President Donald Trump engaged in a 'criminal conspiracy.'
WASHINGTON -- The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection said Wednesday night that its evidence shows former President Donald Trump and his associates engaged in a"criminal conspiracy" to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election, spread false information about the outcome and pressured state officials to overturn it.
The 221-page filing marks the committee's most formal effort to link the former president to a federal crime, though the actual import of the filing is not clear since lawmakers do not have the power to bring charges on their own and can only make a referral to the Justice Department. The department has been investigating last year's riot, but has not given any indication that it is considering seeking charges against Trump.
"The Select Committee is not conducting a criminal investigation," Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's Democratic chairman, said in a statement."But, as the judge noted at a previous hearing, Dr. Eastman's privilege claims raise the question whether the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege applies in this situation.
Jacob replies:"I respect your heart here. I share your concerns about what Democrats will do once in power. I want election integrity fixed. But I have run down every legal trail placed before me to its conclusion, and I respectfully conclude that as a legal framework, it is a results-oriented position that you would never support if attempted by the opposition, and essentially entirely made up.
That assistant, Jeffrey Clark, had been the department's top environmental enforcement lawyer for a period, a fact that led to some derision from colleagues at the meeting when it was pointed out that Clark had not been a criminal prosecutor.
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