The House select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection has yet to release much information about its findings, which it plans to do sometime this year.
to the certification of election results in order to stall for time as Trump supporters were attacking the building.
Trump also had a phone call with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at some point. McCarthy was shaken and asked the president to call off his supporters, but Trump reportedly dismissed McCarthy's concerns and instead suggested that the people ransacking the Capitol and attacking police officers were justified., according to Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.
Cheney questioned whether Trump, “through action or inaction, corruptly sought to obstruct or impede Congress's official proceeding to count electoral votes.”, which says, “Whoever corruptly ... obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” A “proceeding before Congress” is included in the list of what could be an “official proceeding.
Questions remain about what role, if any, Trump and the White House played in leaving the Capitol so vulnerable to attack, and in the agonizing delays in getting more police and National Guard members there as the assault unfolded.
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