The January 6 committee is set to release its final report this month.
Rep. Adam Schiff said the "facts support" indicting Trump but didn't name specific charges.
Schiff said the committee is still weighing potential criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
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Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said Wednesday facts gathered by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack support an indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Schiff, a member of the committee, made the comments in an interview with NPR. The committee is set to dissolve at the end of the year and is highly unlikely to be renewed in a Republican-controlled House. Their final report is expected sometime this month, with sources telling NBC News it could be released on December 21.
NPR's Steve Inskeep asked Schiff if he believed Trump had committed "specific prosecutable crimes on January 6."
"Yes, I do," Schiff said. He alluded to a federal judge who ruled in March that Trump had likely "corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021" — which could amount to felony obstruction.
"I think that illustration I gave, that example I gave is just one instance, one particular offense that I think the facts support a potential charge against the former president," Schiff added.
He also said the committee is still deciding on any referrals it may make to the Justice Department for potential criminal prosecution.
CNN also reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources, that the committee was considering criminal referrals for Trump and some of his allies. Those referrals could include people who refused to cooperate in the committee's investigation or for specific crimes committed on January 6, Schiff said.
The congressman added the committee plans to release the evidence it has gathered before Republicans take over the chamber.
"We intend to make our evidence public and in that way make sure that is accessible to everyone, to the Justice Department, so that when the Republicans take over, they can't cherry-pick certain evidence and mislead the country with some false narrative," he said.
A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
jeremyjack3333 on December 8th, 2022 at 08:19 UTC »
Most people that need to hear what "the facts support" have their own facts. I was posting in a conspiracy sub the other day and people had zero clue about the false electors scheme, the insane Maga brainstorm party the night after the electoral college convened, trump pressuring pence, the Pentagon, and the DOJ, etc.
They didn't watch the hearings. At all. They don't understand what was in those hearing is what's going in history books. They live in LALA land. Anything they don't like they just tune it out.
CraigFingersuck on December 8th, 2022 at 03:16 UTC »
Seriously underestimating the group of people who still to this day insist that Mueller totally exonerated Trump of all wrongdoing and declared that “Russian collusion was a hoax.”
Edit: Truly love that some dipshit showed up to self-identify as the special kind of idiot I’m talking about.
hamsterfolly on December 8th, 2022 at 02:57 UTC »
“But ‘cherry-pick and mislead’ is our only move!” -Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Darrell Issa, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, Trump, and the rest of the Republicans