For the first time in history, a congressional committee is calling on the Justice Department to prosecute a former president. Monday the January 6th Committee wrapped up its controversial tenure by issuing four criminal referrals against President Donald Trump.
The charges include:
- conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding,
- conspiracy to defraud the United States,
- conspiracy to make a false statement, and
- inciting an insurrection.
CBN’s CEO Gordon Robertson critiqued the charges saying, “When you look through this, there’s a whole bunch of the mention of the word ‘conspiracy.’ As a lawyer, I don’t like that word and I don’t like criminal charges based on it, because what it means is you talked about it, but you didn’t do it.”
Critics of the committee argue that it was designed and organized by Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a political ploy aimed at blocking Trump from ever running for office again, regardless of whether any laws were broken. Republicans were not allowed to be part of the committee unless they had already pre-judged the outcome against Trump.
Hundreds of witnesses testified before the largely Democrat committee, including former Trump officials and even members of his family.
Anti-Trump Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has now been ousted by voters in her home state of Wyoming, said, “No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again.”
Trump responded to the panel’s findings with this statement on social media: “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
The committee is also referring Trump’s former election attorney John Eastman for criminal prosecution, as well issuing ethics complaints against four Republican congressmen who ignored subpoenas to testify, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy who’s seeking to become Speaker of the House when Republicans take control in January.
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