January 6 Committee refers former President Trump for criminal prosecution
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
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The January 6 Committee of the US House of Representatives voted yesterday to send referrals to the Justice Department recommending that former President Donald Trump be criminally prosecuted. However, the committee’s criminal referral holds no official legal weight. As often happens with political news, what you thought before you read the story likely determines what you think after you read the story. Meanwhile, many of us are focused on arctic weather that will blast much of America this week. All news is ultimately local, but here’s the problem with such self-focused existentialism: what matters most to us is not always what stands before us.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:44.9 | Today is Tuesday, December the 20th, 2022. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:53.8 | The January 6th Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to send referrals to the Justice Department |
| 1:00.7 | recommending that former President Donald Trump be criminally prosecuted. |
| 1:05.3 | The House Select Committee referrals include obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, |
| 1:10.3 | conspiracy to defraud the federal government, |
| 1:13.2 | making a false statement, and inciting, assisting, or aiding, and comforting an insurrection. |
| 1:20.3 | However, the committee's criminal referral holds no official legal weight. |
| 1:25.4 | Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department will determine |
| 1:29.5 | whether to pursue the charges. As often happens with political news, what you thought before |
| 1:35.1 | you read the story likely determines what you think after you read the story. In this case, |
| 1:41.3 | Mr. Trump supporters will point to the fact that the committee was composed of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans. |
| 1:49.2 | In their view, this is just another example of partisan witch-hunting at its worst. |
| 1:55.5 | Mr. Trump's detractors will counter that the committee's findings deserve attention regardless of the political |
| 2:02.1 | affiliations of its members and claim that his actions on January the 6th threaten the future |
| 2:07.9 | of our democracy. Meanwhile, many of us are focused on Arctic weather that will blast much |
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