Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol uprising said on Sunday that they had uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal charge against former US President Donald Trump for overturning the results of the 2020 election. The commission said Trump’s campaign director, Bill Stepien, was among witnesses scheduled to testify Monday, focusing on Trump’s attempt to spread his lies about stolen elections. Stepien was summoned to testify in public. As the hearings unfold, lawmaker Adam Siff said he would like the ministry to “investigate any credible allegations of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump.” Schiff, D-Calif., Who also heads the House Intelligence Committee, said “there are some actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the election that I do not see being investigated by the Department of Justice.” The commission began its public hearings last week, with members setting out their case against Trump to show how the ousted president relentlessly promoted his false allegations of rigged elections, despite many advisers saying otherwise. how he intensified a great plan to overturn the victory of Joe Biden. . Additional details will be released at hearings this week that show how Trump and some of his advisers took part in a “massive effort” to spread misinformation, pressured the Justice Department to accept his false allegations and urged the then US Vice President Mike Pence will reject the state voters and will block the certification of the vote on January 6, 2021. Stephen, a longtime ally of Trump, is now a top adviser on the Wyoming Republican nominee Harriet Hagman, who is challenging Vice President and Vice President A spokesman for Trump, Taylor Budowich, suggested that the commission’s decision to summon Stepien was politically motivated. Monday’s list of witnesses also includes BJay Pak, Atlanta’s top federal attorney who resigned on Jan. 4, 2021, a day after a recording was released in which Trump called him “never Trump.” Chris Stirewalt, former political editor of Fox News. noted Washington’s election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg. and Al Schmidt, a former city commissioner in Philadelphia. The panel will also focus on the millions of dollars Trump’s team raised to raise funds before Jan. 6, according to a committee aide who insisted on anonymity to discuss the details. The commission said most of the respondents in the survey volunteered, although some wanted the calls to appear in public. Director Nick Quested, who provided the documentary on the attack, said during last week’s hearing that he had been summoned to appear. The committee members said they would present clear evidence that “multiple” GOP lawmakers, including lawmaker Scott Perry, R-Pa., Had asked Trump to pardon him, who would protect him from prosecution. Perry on Friday denied that he had ever done so, calling the allegation an “absolute, shameless and lifeless lie.” “We are not going to accuse or say anything without evidence or proof that supports it,” said Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. Lawmakers have said that perhaps the most important member of their audience during the hearing may be Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has to decide whether his department can and should prosecute Trump. They left no doubt as to whether the evidence was sufficient to proceed. “Once the evidence has been gathered from the Department of Justice, it must decide whether it can prove to a juror beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of the president or anyone else,” Sif said. “But they need to be investigated if there is credible evidence, which I think exists.” MP Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Said he did not intend to “beat” Garland, but noted that the commission has already presented in criminal memorandum criminal records that they believe Trump has violated. “I think he knows, his staff knows, US lawyers know what is at stake here,” Ruskin said. “They know its significance, but I think they rightly pay special attention to the precedent in history, as well as to the facts of this case.” Garland did not say whether he would be willing to prosecute, which would be unprecedented and could be complicated at a time when Trump openly flirted with the idea of running for president again. No president or former president has ever been charged. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 as he faced prosecution and possible charges of bribery, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. President Gerald Ford later pardoned his predecessor before any Watergate prosecutions were filed. Legal experts say a Justice Department lawsuit against Trump over the insurgency could set an unpleasant precedent in which one party government could more regularly prosecute another former president. “We will follow the events wherever they lead,” Garland said in a speech at the opening ceremony of Harvard University last month. A California federal judge said in a March ruling in a political case that Trump “most likely than not” committed federal crimes in an attempt to prevent the counting of ballots in Congress on Jan. 6 by 2021. process and conspiracy to deceive the United States. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. Siff appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” Ruskin spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union,” and Kinzinger appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” —— AP Correspondent Lisa Mascaro in Washington and Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
