The Jan. 6 committee released the executive summary of its final report shortly after the conclusion of its last public meeting on Monday afternoon.
The final report is the culmination of 18 months of investigative effort on the part of the nine-member panel, which made the case Monday that Donald Trump is personally culpable for last year’s riot at the Capitol. The full report, which the committee voted on Monday to release, is expected to be made public later this week.
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The panel issued criminal referrals for the former president at the public meeting, urging the Justice Department to prosecute Trump on counts including inciting an insurrection and obstruction of an official proceeding. The panel also issued criminal referrals for Trump’s allies, most notably his lawyer John Eastman, and referred GOP lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.
The 161-page executive summary, which opens with “emotional testimony” from Graydon Young, a member of the Oath Keepers who says he was spurred to storm the Capitol by Trump’s claims of a stolen election, steps through 17 “specific findings” attempting to establish Trump’s culpability in the riot.
It details a multipart plan by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including a pressure campaign against former Vice President Mike Pence and state election officials. The summary argues that while intelligence agencies were aware violence could erupt on Jan. 6, they could not have anticipated the “full scale and extent of the threat” ahead of time.
The report, compiled by a nine-member panel House Republicans have decried as biased, is being released only days before the committee dissolves at the end of the year. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has pledged to investigate the security lapses surrounding the riot when they assume control of the House on Jan. 3, shifting the focus away from Trump.
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The final report is divided into eight sections that walk through Trump’s conduct in the lead-up to the riot and makes the legal case for the prosecution of Trump by the Justice Department. The executive summary details those criminal referrals.
“In the Committee’s hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multipart plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election,” the summary states. “That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”
