Members of the panel investigating Jan. 6 say they have enough evidence to show how former President Donald Trump intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
indicated Sunday their most important audience over the course of the hearings ultimately may be Attorney General Merrick Garland, who must decide whether his department can and should prosecute Trump. They left no doubt their own view as to whether the evidence is sufficient."Once the evidence is accumulated by the Justice Department, it needs to make a decision about whether it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt the president’s guilt or anyone else’s," Schiff said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said he doesn’t intend to "browbeat" Garland but noted the committee has already laid out in legal pleadings a variety of criminal statutes they believe Trump violated.Vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., outlined what the committee has learned about the events leading up to the Jan. 6 riot putting blame on former president Donald Trump for riling up insurrectionists.
"I think that he knows, his staff knows, the U.S. attorneys know, what’s at stake here," Raskin said. "They know the importance of it, but I think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent in history as well, as the facts of this case."Garland has not specified how he might proceed, which would be unprecedented and may be complicated in a political election season in which Trump has openly flirted with the idea of running for president again in 2024.
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