The 221-page filing marks the committee’s most formal effort to link the former president to a federal crime, though the actual import of the filing is not clear since lawmakers do not have the power to bring charges on their own and can only make a referral to the Justice Department.
Highlights
- House committee says it found evidence that Trump and his associates engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election.
- The committee made the claims in a filing in response to a lawsuit by a Trump adviser John Eastman.
- Eastman, a lawyer who was consulting with Trump as he attempted to overturn the election, is trying to withhold documents from the committee as it investigates the Jan.
- 6, 2021, insurrection.
- The 221-page filing marks the committee’s most formal effort to link the former president to a federal crime, though the actual import of the filing is not clear since lawmakers do not have the power to bring charges on their own.