After more than a year of investigation and a series of blockbuster public hearings, the House of Representatives select committee charged with investigating the circumstances that led to an assault mounted by supporters of 45th president Donald Trump determined to prevent the Senate from certifying the previous November’s presidential election result will vote on adopting its final report and issuing a series of referrals to the Department of Justice and other agencies on Monday, 19 December.
The panel, chaired by Democratic congressman Bennie Thompson, has already interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses behind closed doors, including integral members of Mr Trump’s inner circle, about precisely what happened on that dark day, a date that will live in infamy on which five people were killed as a violent mob, motivated by their candidate’s false election fraud narrative, smashed through security barriers and stormed the legislative complex.
