Washington (AP) — A member of the House Committee investigating Riot of Parliament Said on Sunday they revealed enough evidence Ministry of Justice Consider seeking unprecedented criminal accusations against former President Donald Trump To overturn the outcome of the 2020 elections..
“We hope the Justice Department will investigate credible allegations of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump,” said Republican Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. “There are certain actions that are part of these various efforts to overturn the election, but there is no evidence that the Justice Department is investigating.”
The committee held the first hearing How a member filed a lawsuit against Trump last week and the defeated president mercilessly pushed his false allegations in a fraudulent election, despite several advisers giving him different words. He showed how he strengthened his extraordinary plan to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Additional evidence will be revealed at this week’s hearing This shows how Trump and his advisers have made “massive efforts” to disseminate false information and pressured the Justice Department to accept his false claims.
Committee members showed on Sunday that the most important audience in the process of the hearing could ultimately be Attorney General Merrick Garland. They undoubtedly left their own views on whether the evidence was sufficient.
“Once evidence has been accumulated by the Justice Department, we need to make a decision as to whether it can prove the president’s guilt or someone else’s guilt to the jury beyond reasonable doubt,” Schiff said. I did. “But we need to investigate if there is credible evidence. I think it is.”
Rep. Jamie Ruskin (D-Md.) Said he did not intend to “beat” Garland, but said the Commission had already legally sued various criminal laws that Trump believed violated. ..
“He knows, his staff knows, US lawyers know, I think he knows what’s wrong here,” Ruskin said. “They know the importance of it, but as a matter of fact in this case, I think they are, of course, paying close attention to historical precedents.”
Garland has not specified how he will proceed. This is unprecedented and can be complicated by the political election season when Trump has openly flirt with the idea of running for president again in 2024. Garland said in his speech at the opening ceremony of Harvard University last month.
A federal judge in California said in a March civil lawsuit, Mr. Trump said: “Probability is high” On January 6, 2021, he committed a federal crime in an attempt to thwart the number of parliamentary ballots for the Electoral College. The judge cited two decree: obstruction of official proceedings and a plot to deceive the United States. Trump has denied all cheating.
Schiff appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and Ruskin talked about CNN’s “State of the Union”.
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