The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will present evidence of crimes “that have not yet been alleged,” according to one high-profile member.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who led the second impeachment against former President Donald Trump, boasted of how the panel has “not been shy about criminal evidence we encounter” during an interview with the Washington Post on Wednesday.
“And our report will be profuse in setting forth crimes that have not yet been alleged,” Raskin added. He also said Jan. 6 hearings, expected in May and June, will be scheduled “in a way that the big majority of the population will be able to tune in live.”
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People need “to be patient,” Raskin said. He noted that the Department of Justice has already charged “a lot of people” over the Capitol riot and that it “seems to be working its way up from the bottom to the top.”
There have been hundreds of people charged in connection with the Capitol riot, but so far, the Justice Department has not embarked on any prosecutions against Trump or those in his inner circle. But congressional investigators are looking at links between the violence and efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election results. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and cast the Jan. 6 panel’s work as being a political witch hunt.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republican members on the committee, said she believes it is “absolutely clear” that Trump engaged in unlawful conduct and that “a number of people around him” knew it. Cheney made the comments after a judge said last month in a Jan. 6-related case that Trump “more likely than not” broke the law when he “corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
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However, leaders of the Jan. 6 committee have grown divided over the need to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department, according to the New York Times. Although members believe they have enough evidence to file a referral, some Democrats are questioning whether it is even necessary or if doing so would add too much political heat should Trump decide to run for reelection in 2024.
