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| The final chapter. |
Before concluding the House Select Committee on the attack on the U.S. Capitol, three outgoing lawmakers will vote for criminal referrals to the former president and several of his allies.
They will also submit ethic complaints for ten Republican House members.
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will cast their final committee vote to recommend criminal charges to the U.S. Justice Department.
At a final meeting on Monday, the panel’s seven Democrats and two Republicans are poised to recommend criminal charges against the former president and potentially against associates and staff who helped him launch a multifaceted pressure campaign to try to overturn the 2020 election.
While a criminal referral is mostly symbolic, with the Justice Department ultimately deciding whether to prosecute Trump or others, it is a decisive end to a probe that had an almost singular focus from the start.
“I think the president has violated multiple criminal laws and I think you have to be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that is you have to be prosecuted,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the panel, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The panel, which will dissolve on Jan. 3 with the new Republican-led House, has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, held 10 well-watched public hearings and collected more than a million documents since it launched in July 2021. As it has gathered the massive trove of evidence, the members have become emboldened in declaring that Washed Up 45 is to blame for the violent attack on the Capitol by his supporters almost two years ago.
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