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BREAKING: J6 Committee Recommends Criminal Charges Against Trump Over Capitol Riot...The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight.
Daily Wire ^ | Dec 19, 2022 | By Tim Pearce

Posted on 12/19/2022 12:36:53 PM PST by Red Badger

The House January 6 Committee voted on Monday to recommend the Justice Department charge former President Donald Trump over the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. capitol.

The committee, assembled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), concluded its inquiry with a vote recommending Trump be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make false statements to the federal government, and inciting an insurrection.

The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight. The Justice Department is under no obligation to act on the committee’s recommendations.

In addition to the recommendations to the Justice Department, the committee also voted to recommend four members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.

The committee’s Monday session caps the work it began when it was launched in July 2021. It conducted more than 1,000 interviews and held ten highly-publicized hearings over the summer to build its case to the Justice Department and the American public that Trump is to blame for the riot on January 6.

The investigation was conducted by seven Democratic and two Republican lawmakers. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) refused to cooperate with the committee after Pelosi rejected several of his nominees to sit on the panel. GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, both of whom supported impeaching Trump over January 6, later volunteered to sit on the committee alongside the Democrats.

The former president has been a vocal critic of the committee’s work, calling it a continuation of the “witch hunt” that began against him in 2016 with FBI counterintelligence probes into false allegations that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian agents.

Prior to Monday’s vote, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed the committee as a “kangaroo court.” He called its hearings over the summer “show trials by Never Trump partisans who are a stain on this country’s history,” according to The New York Times.

In an October memo spanning 14 pages, Trump hit back at the committee that had issued a subpoena for the former president to testify.

“This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt,” Trump said.

Trump is facing a series of investigations from state and federal authorities, including a special counsel investigation led by Jack Smith, who was most recently a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith to the special counsel’s office last month. Smith has taken over responsibility for a DOJ probe into Trump over January 6, 2021, and an investigation into classified documents allegedly kept at Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: criminalcharges
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1 posted on 12/19/2022 12:36:53 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Well of course they do - it’s the whole reason they existed.


2 posted on 12/19/2022 12:38:04 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Red Badger

The entire J6 committee should be convicted of treason and hanged.


3 posted on 12/19/2022 12:39:13 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Red Badger

To distract from the Real criminals the Biden Family


4 posted on 12/19/2022 12:39:42 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

“The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight”

The liberal media will of course conveniently omit that little nugget....you can count on it.


5 posted on 12/19/2022 12:41:37 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: butlerweave
To distract from the Real criminals the Biden Family

Democrats operate as a team to terrorize and destroy their enemies. The GOP operates as a circular firing squad.

6 posted on 12/19/2022 12:42:16 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Keep poking the bear!

President in Exile Trump is running again and he’s going to win. This is going to be so. much. fun! :)


7 posted on 12/19/2022 12:42:46 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Red Badger

They knew their reign of zero existance is about to end on Jan 2nd, they knew it so they had to do something, anything to appease their commie base..they really had no choice, it was either to do this, or look like even bigger ass clowns than they already do..Im gonna go on a limb and say that the DOJ does NOT indict, yeah they will prolong it as long as possible but they wont


8 posted on 12/19/2022 12:43:01 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Red Badger

Maybe they can make it real fair and have Hillary serve as judge, jury, prosecutor, defense and sole witness.


9 posted on 12/19/2022 12:43:08 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Red Badger

I suggest all of the j6 committee go and reproduce asexually.

5.56mm


10 posted on 12/19/2022 12:43:31 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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Jsex?...................


11 posted on 12/19/2022 12:44:01 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Meanwhile the FBI has the Hunter Brandon Laptop, the Weiner Laptop, the Seth Rich Laptop, The Epstein Computers and Video Records, the Hillary emails, and.... nothing happens.

Because the FBI was too busy engineering a COUP against a sitting president of the United States. And still raided his personal residence and personal effects.

Wicked wicked evil Marxist Brandon junta.


12 posted on 12/19/2022 12:44:45 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: JudyinCanada

The ‘2 republicans’ are actually democrats pretending to be republicans, the very definition of RINO, on the most absurd and compromised congressional committee in US history.
Like a dead blow hammer, these accusations and referrals have no bounce.
Trump will be the nominee for 2024, no matter what these people say or do.


13 posted on 12/19/2022 12:45:23 PM PST by Thapsus_epiphany (In order to form a more perfect union…)
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To: Red Badger
Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия
ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია
"Show me the man and I'll give you the crime."
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
Chief of Stalin's NKVD (Secret Police)
during Stalin's Reign of Terror

IGNORE THIS AT YOUR PERIL, AMERICA!


14 posted on 12/19/2022 12:52:59 PM PST by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: V_TWIN
“The recommendations are largely symbolic as they carry no legal weight” The liberal media will of course conveniently omit that little nugget....you can count on it.

Why should they, innuendo mudslinging worked on Nixon, tried but failed with Reagan.

15 posted on 12/19/2022 12:54:18 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Red Badger

It’s political premature ejaculation to try to deflect against the investigations and scrutiny that these treasonous assholes are about to go under themselves!


16 posted on 12/19/2022 12:54:26 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: JudyinCanada

The US is on the way to being a banana republic.


17 posted on 12/19/2022 12:54:37 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Red Badger

That will not save them from the Biden investigations.

Not that anything will come of it. /s


18 posted on 12/19/2022 12:56:11 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Red Badger

Oh my gosh. DJT just asked biden for a pardon.

oh wait... no he didn’t


19 posted on 12/19/2022 12:56:15 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: reg45
The entire J6 committee should be convicted of treason and hanged.

And then, to keep with their beloved "green" ways, turned into compost. First useful role they will have paid in their entire miserable lives.

20 posted on 12/19/2022 12:56:20 PM PST by EinNYC
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