Former President Donald Trump shared his response to the report released by the January 6 committee, calling it “highly partisan.”
On Thursday evening, the committee released the 845-page report.
“The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the ‘Peacefully and Patrioticly’ words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
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In the executive summary of the report, the committee states, “The central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed.”
It continues, “None of the events of Jan. 6 would have happened without him.”
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) declared in the report, “Our institutions are only strong when those who hold office are faithful to our Constitution.”
She added, “Part of the tragedy of Jan. 6 is the conduct of those who knew that what happened was profoundly wrong, but nevertheless tried to downplay it, minimize it or defend those responsible.”
The executive summary notes the report lists a series of legislative recommendations including, the Presidential Election Reform Act, which was passed by the House.
One of Trump’s lawyers, Jeffrey Clark, called the report a “last gasp,” as The New York Times reported.
“This committee is now largely dead and will be fully dead on Jan. 2, 2023,” Clark said.
The former president previously issued a fiery criticism of Cheney after she declared him “unfit for any office,” as IJR reported.
During a committee hearing on Monday, Cheney said, “Among the most shameful of this committee’s findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room off the Oval Office watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television.”
She added, “For hours, he would not issue a public statement instructing his supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol, despite urgent pleas from his White House staff and dozens of others to do so. Members of his family, his White House lawyers, virtually all those around him knew that this simple act was critical.”
Cheney suggested no man “who would behave that way, at that moment in time, can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again.”
Trump reacted, saying, “… But Liz Chaney (sic) lost by a record 40 points!”
He was referring to her primary loss against Harriet Hageman.
During the committee’s public meeting Monday, the members voted unanimously to recommend the Department of Justice prosecute Trump for “obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and incitement, rebellion or insurrection,” as CBS News reported.