After an 18-month probe, the panel investigating the US Capitol riot has recommended charging former president Donald Trump with insurrection and obstruction.
asked the Justice Department to bring charges against the Republican former president, including obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States and insurrection.
The Democratic-led select committee has asked the Justice Department to bring charges against former US President Donald Trump over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.Slamming Mr Trump for summoning the mob to the Capitol nearly two years ago, Thompson also criticised the former president for undermining faith in the democratic system.Mr Trump has already launched a campaign to seek the Republican nomination to run for the White House again in 2024.
"Among the most shameful of this committee's findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room off the Oval Office, watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television," Representative Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the committee, said.Donald Trump condemned for 'anti-American and fascist' proposal to terminate the Constitution
Mr Trump has faced a series of legal problems since leaving office. His real estate company was convicted on 6 December of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities.
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