Congressional Committee Releases Conclusions From Investigation Of Capitol Storming: We Learned A Lot About Donald Trump

The long-awaited release of the January 6th Special Committee Report into the Capitol Storming, along with a number of accompanying testimonies, has provided a better understanding of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump's efforts to cancel the 2020 presidential election, which culminated in the attack on the Capitol. The edition told in more detail VOX.

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The report is voluminous, contains more than 800 pages and dozens of attached interview transcripts, which you can find at link. While much of what it contained was revealed during 10 televised hearings the committee held over the summer and fall, much of the report is published for the first time.

Here are some of the more interesting findings, revelations, and recommendations from the report and accompanying testimony.

The scale of attempts to cancel the elections

The committee outlined how much effort Trump and his allies put into the schemes to convince state and local officials to cancel the election. According to the report, "Between the November election and the January 6 uprising, President Trump or his inner circle committed at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation."

This count does not include other attempts by Trump campaign staff to contact state legislators, including attempts to contact 190 Republican elected officials in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan alone. The Trump campaign has launched a full-blown operation to orchestrate its efforts to select the bogus electors and ensure they convene on December 14 when the Electoral College meets so they have an alternative route to contest the election results.

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For example, Trump tried to talk to Brad Raffensperger "at least 18 times."

Extremists were an integral part of the assault

The report makes it clear that political outcasts played an important role at almost every stage before and during the attack on the Capitol. Members of the Proud Boys were at the forefront of the attack and breached the police fence before Trump had even finished speaking, ensuring the entire crowd was close to the building by the time the officers arrived.

This shows that key figures considered the march to the Capitol to be the central part of the plan. Ali Alexander, a far-right activist and organizer of the rally that day, was certain that the White House wanted him to march to the Capitol. Alt-right media personality Alex Jones even asked Caroline Wren, a prominent Republican fundraiser who helped organize the rally, when he should stop Trump's speech and start the march. Many of these figures connected on Signal Chat under the nickname "Friends of the Stone," named after longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. It included Stone, Alexander, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, and Oath Keepers leader Stuart Rhodes.

Attempts to cancel the elections began immediately

Within days of Trump's loss, allies were already inciting him to try to reverse the result. It wasn't just former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who discussed ideas on how to reverse the election results in text messages.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent a message to a Trump aide on November 10, two days after visiting him at the White House, where he suggested that Trump urge "the GOP legislature to decide not to send electors" to somehow push back the election to January. .

Vince Haley, the White House speechwriter, didn't even suggest that allegations of electoral fraud were a necessary fig leaf, and argued that state legislatures "have the constitutional right to supersede an approved majority of their electors."

Trump didn't take Sidney Powell seriously

While the president has floated many of the conspiracy theories touted by conservative lawyer Sidney Powell about voting machines and massive vote-rigging during the 2020 election, he, at least initially, did not take them seriously.

The day after her infamous press conference, where she named the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as one of the main masterminds behind the election fraud, Powell held a conference call with Trump. During the conversation, the president turned off the sound and laughed at her, telling others in the room that "this really sounds crazy."

Lawyer Cassidy Hutchinson represented Trump World, not her

In September testimony before the committee, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump aide who gave explosive testimony at the televised committee hearing in June, made it clear that her original lawyer was only trying to defend Trump. Hutchinson eventually switched lawyers before her testimony, and details were leaked about how Trump World pressured her before her appearance before the committee.

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Hutchinson describes how she was involved with Stefan Passantino, Trump's former ethics lawyer in the White House. Passantino urged her to avoid answering questions at every opportunity and to say, "I don't remember."

He also made it clear to her, “We just want to focus on protecting the president. We all know that you are loyal,” and did not tell her who was actually paying for her legal representation. In the end, he let it slip that this is Trump World. Meanwhile, Passantino helped Hutchinson find a job using his connections. He ended up being fired by Hutchinson when he advised her to risk contempt from the committee rather than comply with their demands.

Trump and his allies must suffer constitutional consequences

In its recommendations, the committee says that Trump and his allies should be permanently banned from holding public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who has "participated in rebellion against" the United States from holding any "civil or military" office. positions if they have previously sworn an official oath in support of the US Constitution.

According to the report, "The Committee considers that those who took an oath to defend the Constitution and then, on January 6, participated in the uprising, may be appropriately disqualified and disqualified from holding public office."

It is further recommended that Congress enact legislation on this matter to establish specific procedures for formal disqualification.

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