The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the U.S. Capitol might make a criminal referral against former President Donald Trump, the panel’s vice chair said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Asked whether Trump should be prosecuted over his role in the attack, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told ABC’s “This Week,” “Ultimately, the Justice Department will decide that. I think we may well as a committee have a view on that.
“If you just think about it from the perspective of what kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol and further incites that mob when his own vice president is under threat, when the Congress is under threat,” she continued, “it’s very chilling and I think certainly we will, you know, continue to present to the American people what we found.”
