Congress should consider barring Donald Trump from holding any future office for inciting a violent mob to storm the US Capitol, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack said in its final report.
The deadly attack was the end result of an effort devised and steered by Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election and block the transfer of power, the committee said.
He pressured myriad government officials, from county elections staffers all the way up to his vice president, Mike Pence, to deny the certification of the results.
And when political pressure failed, he summoned a mob to the Capitol and told them to "fight like hell.".
"The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed," the report's executive summary read.
It also recommended that Congress consider "creating a formal mechanism" to evaluate whether to bar the individuals in the report from state and federal office.
The committee made 11 recommendations in total, including asking federal agencies to tackle the threat of white nationalist and violent anti-government extremist groups. »
