The House Jan. 6 committee's public hearings have been devastating for Donald Trump. Over the course of six weeks, the committee has presented in damning detail a comprehensive case that Trump and others within his orbit likely violated federal and state laws as they schemed to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, including by knowingly sending a violent mob to the Capitol.
While the committee is still to release its final report and now plans further hearings, it has already provided Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as state and local prosecutors like Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, with more than enough evidence to initiate criminal probes into the former president and to charge him with multiple crimes.
