The congressional committee probing last year’s violent attack on the US Capitol has voted to recommend that former US president Donald Trump should face four criminal charges for his role in the failed insurrection.
During its final public hearing on Monday the bipartisan nine-member panel unanimously said Trump should be prosecuted for assisting the insurrection, obstructing an official government proceeding, conspiring to defraud the US and knowingly making false statements to authorities.
“We’ve never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power. I believe, nearly two years later, this is still a time of reflection and reckoning,” Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi House Democrat chairing the panel, said at the start of the hearing.
