The House Jan. 6 committee, after 18 months of investigating, is set to take its most defining actions in votes on criminal referrals Monday.
While the actions would mark a landmark coda for the panel's work, legal analysts said the signal the committee sends to the general public will be equally, if not more important.
“Donald Trump orchestrated a scheme to overturn a presidential election and block the transfer of power," Thompson and Cheney said in a joint statement last month, after Trump had defied a subpoena to appear before the panel.Rudy Giuliani, one of the primary faces of the failed legal effort who repeatedly raised baseless allegations of fraud to challenge Biden's election.
Meadows also helped organize a Jan. 2, 2021 telephone call in which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to flip the state's election results in favor of the former president.A breakdown of the 187 minutes Trump was out of view on Jan. 6 as aides urged him to act Jolly said the committee would likely be well served to review the disputed 2019 rollout of the report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election delivered by then-Justice special counsel Robert Mueller.
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