detailed separate aspects of donald trump s illegal attempts to overthrow the presidential election. when animal trump s pressure campaign did not achieve the results he wanted, he oversaw an effort to obtained and transmit false electoral college ballots to congress and the national archives. knowing that existing department leadership would not support his false election claims, president trump offered mr. clark the job of acting attorney general. in a dramatic january 3rd meeting in the oval office, donahue, white house counsel pat cipollone, and white house lawyer eric herschmann, strongly objected to the opponent appointment of jeffrey clark as attorney general. he pleaded his case and offered to send the letter he had drafted to white house john eastman admitted enough fans of the 2020 election that mike pence could not lawfully
refuse to count official electoral votes. but he nevertheless devised a merit-less proposal that deployed a combination of bogus election fraud claims and the fake electoral ballots to say that mike pence, presiding over the joint session, could reject legitimate electoral votes for president elect biden. for 187 minutes, he actively disregarded his constitutional obligation to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. as we have established through months of investigation, that is because the mob wanted what president trump want it, to impede the peaceful transition of power. at 601 p m, the trump in his last tweet of the day pugh did not condemn the violence. instead, he attempted to justify it. these are the things that events that happened on a sacred landslide election victory. so unceremoniously and
eastman, and others for violations of the statute. the whole purpose and obvious effect of trump s scheme were to obstruct, influence, and impede this official proceeding. this central moment for the lawful transfer of power in the united states. second, we believe that there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j trump, john eastman and others, for violating title 18, section three 71. this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. in other words, to make an agreement to impair, obstruct, or defeat the lawful functions of the united states government by deceitful were due saunas means. third, we make a referral based on title 18, section 1001,
american constitutional democracy that took place on january 6th, 2021, consists of hundreds of individual criminal offenses. most such crimes are already being prosecuted by the department of justice. we proposed to the committee, advancing referrals where the gravity of the specific events, the severity of its actual harm, and essentiality of the offender to the overall design of the unlawful scheme to overthrow the election, compels us to speak. ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. these are not the only statutes that are potentially relevant to president trump s conduct related to the 2020 election. depending on evidence developed
important of the offenses, the one that would lead to automatic disqualification from holding any future office, was the offense of insurrection. and what is important about that is a point that was made and will not be lost on either merrick garland or his special counsel, jack smith, it was a point made in the report today and that was that the house of representatives already convicted donald trump of insurrection. they indicted him. they said that the evidence is compelling. and that was a bipartisan vote when it went to the senate. there was a majority of bipartisan majority to find him guilty. there weren t the requisite two thirds, but it was made very explicit. leader mcconnell and others said that by that point, trump