Jan. 6 Committee Issues Four Criminal Referrals For Trump
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
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Committee members voted to refer former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution on four criminal charges. They include inciting an insurrection, obstructing an official government proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | The Select Committee investigating me deadly January 6th at the |
| 0:04.5 | attack on the United States Capitol has held what is expected to be its final hearing. |
| 0:09.4 | And after almost 18 months, numerous public hearings, more than 900 interviews and hours upon |
| 0:17.7 | hours of compiling evidence, it's come down to this. |
| 0:21.3 | We believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today, and assembled throughout our hearings, |
| 0:27.2 | warrants a criminal referral of former President Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:34.4 | That is January 6th Committee member Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, |
| 0:39.1 | summing up the case against former President Donald Trump. |
| 0:42.2 | Hours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail, |
| 0:47.2 | and the masterminds and ring leaders get a free pass. |
| 0:51.3 | Raskin and his fellow committee members once again went through their main findings. |
| 0:56.4 | And when they were done, they voted. |
| 0:58.6 | Ms. Cheney. |
| 0:59.5 | I. |
| 1:00.2 | Ms. Cheney. |
| 1:00.9 | I. |
| 1:02.2 | Ms. Laufgren. |
| 1:03.4 | I. |
| 1:04.2 | Ms. Laufgren. |
| 1:05.0 | I. |
| 1:05.5 | unanimously to send the Justice Department four criminal referrals against Trump on four charges. |
| 1:12.4 | Abstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, |
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