The chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol says that the panel will not make any criminal referrals.
Thompson's remarks on Monday contrast with earlier suggestions that criminal referrals might be on the table., Thompson told NBC News that the evidence gathered in 2021 pointed to Congress formally asking the Justice Department to use its work as the basis for prosecutions.More recently, in April, the committee's vice chair
said the panel had sufficient evidence to refer Trump for criminal charges, but cautioned that the panel had not made a decision about moving forward with it.— what a number of people around him were doing — that they knew it was unlawful. They did it anyway,” Cheney said during a CNN interview at the time, when asked her whether the committee had enough evidence for a criminal referral.
Thompson said the committee demonstrated through pre-recorded video interviews how key figures in Trump’s orbit had told him he lost the election “early on, but that he had continued to promote the stolen election lie to their fundraising apparatus. Supporters were urged to donate to Trump’s “election defense fund” but the committee said it found no such committee or fund existed. Instead, much of the $250 million raised went to Trump’s new super PAC, called the Save America PAC, launched just the days after the election.
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