Washington - "Jerusalem" dot com - Saeed Erekat - The "House of Representatives Committee investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to cling to power, dubbed the "January 6 (2021) Committee" revealed on Thursday its official report and the final outcome of its 18-hour historical investigations. A month into the deadly attack on the Capitol and former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

"This report will provide more detail on the multi-step effort devised and advanced by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and obstruct the transfer of power," Rep. Penny Thompson (D-Mississippi), chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, wrote in the report's foreword.

"Based on the information presented in our hearings earlier this year, we will present new findings about Trump's pressure campaign on officials from the local level down to his vice president, which was orchestrated and designed solely to erode the will of the electorate and keep him in office after the end of his term." elect".

The committee released the more than 800-page report days after the committee's final meeting in which its nine members -- seven Democrats and two Republicans -- voted to recommend that the Justice Department pursue criminal charges against Trump as he works to win back the White House in the upcoming 2024 election.

It was the first time in history that a congressional committee made criminal referrals against a US president. The Jan. 6 committee, led by Thompson and committee vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, believes there is sufficient evidence for the Justice Department to prosecute Trump on four specific counts, including obstruction of a formal procedure—congressional certification of electoral votes. Inciting or aiding rebellion.

And in keeping with the committee's summer hearing series and executive summary, the full report — divided into eight chapters — lays largely the blame for the January 6 attack on the 45th president's feet.

And in the first chapter, titled “The Big Lie,” a reference to Trump’s extensive efforts to delegitimize the 2020 elections and falsely claim that they were stolen from him, while the second chapter, titled “I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes,” focuses on Trump’s attempt to pressure. State and election officials in Georgia and elsewhere to overturn the election results.

The witnesses, nearly all Republicans, testified that Trump and his inner circle worked hard to sow doubts about Joe Biden winning the election; waged a multi-pronged campaign to pressure state officials, senior members of the Justice Department, and then-Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the election; He directed a crowd of thousands of his supporters to demonstrate in the "Capitol Building" to disrupt the legislators' process of counting the electoral votes that would certify the results of the election; He refused to call off his supporters as they brutally assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol.

"Among the most shameful findings of this commission is that President Trump sat in the dining room outside the Oval Office watching the violent riot in the Capitol Building on television. No man acting in that manner at that moment could serve in any office." Said Representative Liz Cheney.

The committee's detailed report, seen by Jerusalem, alleges that Trump and his inner circle conducted at least 200 public or private acts of "communication, pressure, or denunciation" targeting state and local election officials, as well as state legislators, to overturn results between Trump's loss in November 2020. and January 6, 2021.

The report revealed that because there were 68 meetings and phone calls or texts addressed to state or local officials; 18 generic words targeting them; and 125 social media posts, the commission says.

The report also revealed more details about the fraudulent voter plan, which the commission alleges Trump embraced when it became clear that state officials in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and other key battlegrounds would not overturn results in their states and replace Biden voters with Trump voters. .

While the committee referred conservative attorney John Eastman to the Justice Department on Monday for his role in the scheme to pressure Pence into rejecting states' electoral votes on Jan. 6, the report identified Trump-aligned lawyer Kenneth Chesebrough as central to the perception of the conspiracy.

As mandated, the commission has also issued a number of recommendations to both Congress and federal agencies. She called for reforms to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to make it clear that the vice president did not have the power to unilaterally reject electoral votes, an update already in the works. Congress will pass such a recommendation this week as part of the overall spending package.

The committee also urged congressional committees to consider whether to create a "formal mechanism" to assess whether Trump and the others identified in the report would be barred from holding office in the future under the Fourteenth Amendment.

In addition, the Jan. 6 commission recommended that federal agencies undertake a "whole-of-government strategy" to root out and counter violent extremism, including white nationalists. She urged law enforcement to designate future testimonials for the presidential election as a "special national security event." This will require additional planning, coordination, and security for future certification events on January 6 at the Capitol.

"Based on our investigative findings," Thompson wrote, "these recommendations will help strengthen the barriers to our democracy."

The report is the culmination of a sweeping congressional investigation that included 11 public hearings, more than 100 subpoenas, more than 1,200 witness interviews and the collection of hundreds of thousands of text messages, emails and other documents.