The Jan. 6 Committee Refers Donald Trump for Criminal Charges
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:22.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:27.0 | Democrats will soon lose their house majority, but before they return to the minority, they're going to spend this week dumping two years of investigation material on Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:40.0 | The House January 6 Committee will vote today on criminal referrals, including what may be as many as three referrals against Donald Trump. |
| 0:48.0 | On Tuesday, the Ways and Means Committee will meet to vote on whether to release publicly six years of Trump's tax returns and then Thursday, the January 6 Committee will release its final report. |
| 0:59.0 | All of this at a time when Republican voters are already expressing more doubts about the former president's candidacy for 2024. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo, here with my redaudible Wall Street Journal opinion colleagues Kim Strassel and Kyle Peterson. |
| 1:14.0 | Let's listen to Adam Schiff, one Democrat who's a member of the January 6 Committee, talk about the possibility of criminal referrals. |
| 1:23.0 | I think there's sufficient evidence to charge the president. |
| 1:26.0 | To get a conviction now? |
| 1:27.0 | Well, I don't know what the Justice Department has. I do know what's in the public record. |
| 1:31.0 | The evidence seems pretty plain to me, but I would want to see the full body of evidence if I were in the prosecutor's shoes to make a decision. |
| 1:39.0 | The rare restraint for Adam Schiff, he clearly sees that there will be criminal referrals. |
| 1:45.0 | The leaks that we've heard so far from the committee through the press are that there are three potential charges, one, fomenting an insurrection, two obstructing a congressional proceeding. |
| 1:56.0 | That would be the January 6th proceeding to county electrow votes and then conspiracy against the United States. |
| 2:03.0 | I think there are many of these potential criminal referrals and how damaging will this be to the former president. |
| 2:10.0 | I mean, I think there are problems with these theories on the evidence that we have so far. So on the insurrection point, I don't think there's been any allegation even that President Trump was communicating with people that were rioting on January 6th with the oath keepers, the proud boys on the point about obstructing an official proceeding. |
| 2:28.0 | It seems like he didn't want to obstruct the joint session of Congress, he wanted to go his way. |
| 2:33.0 | And he was working off this crackpot legal theory from John Eastman, a real law professor telling him that vice president Mike Pence could reject electoral votes or could call the joint session into recess. |
| 2:46.0 | And so, I mean, that seems like terrible legal advice to me. I'm not sure that it's a crime, though. |
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