Jan. 6 committee refers Trump for criminal charges - Axios

Former President Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Florida connected Nov. 15. Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Jan. 6 sheet voted Monday to notation former President Trump to the Department of Justice connected astatine slightest 4 transgression charges, including insurrection and obstruction of an authoritative proceeding of Congress.

Why it matters: In an unprecedented move, the legislature committee voted unanimously that the erstwhile president committed crimes for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Driving the news: The sheet referred Trump, who has announced he's moving for president successful 2024, connected charges of obstruction of an authoritative proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to marque a mendacious connection and "incite," "assist" oregon "aid oregon comfort" an insurrection.

• "The committee has developed significant grounds that President Trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of powerfulness nether our constitution," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said.
• The sheet besides announced Monday the referral of transgression charges against former Trump lawyer John Eastman for his efforts to disrupt the 2020 election.
• Eastman, with Trump, pushed a theory that Vice President Mike Pence could unilaterally cull electors.
• "We judge that the grounds described by my colleagues contiguous and assembled passim our hearings warrants a transgression referral of erstwhile president Donald J. Trump, John Eastman and others," Raskin said.
• The referrals are non-binding and bash not necessitate the DOJ to instrumentality immoderate further action.

The large picture: The sheet connected Monday also voted to notation House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and 3 different House Republicans to the House Ethics Committee for ignoring the panel's subpoenas.

• A partial transcript of the panel's study charges McCarthy, on with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), with violating House rules requiring members to behaviour themselves “at each times successful a mode that shall bespeak creditably connected the House."
• The sheet besides voted to o.k. its sprawling last report, which volition see legislative recommendations and absorption connected further grounds connected Trump's relation connected Jan. 6.

What they're saying: When asked astir the referrals during a quality league Monday, White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre didn't specifically remark but said President Biden believes our "democracy is inactive nether threat" and called the Jan. 6 insurrection the "worst onslaught connected our ideology since the civilian war."

• She reiterated that the committee "has been doing important bipartisan enactment to get to the information of what happened" that day.
• Trump successful a statement connected Truth Social Monday said: "These folks don’t get it that erstwhile they travel aft me, radical who emotion state rally astir me. It strengthens me. What doesn’t termination maine makes maine stronger."

Zoom out: Monday's nationalist gathering is apt the past nationalist league for the committee, arsenic it volition dissolve astatine the extremity of the existent Congressional session.

• The sheet implicit the past 18 months has reviewed droves of grounds and conducted hundreds of interviews to glean penetration into what happened that deadly day.

Read the Introductory Material to the Final Report of the Select Committee below.

Editor's note: This communicative has been updated with caller details throughout.