Opinion A criminal referral that doesn't name Trump would be criminal

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By Dana Milbank
Columnist
October 13, 2022 at 7:37 p.m. EDT

In its ninth and possibly final public session on Thursday, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol added vivid detail to the narrative it had thoroughly documented in its previous hearings.

On a huge screen above the dais, the lawmakers flashed the grave warnings the Secret Service had received 11 days before the attack: “Their plan is to literally kill people. Please, please take this tip seriously and investigate further.”

The lawmakers displayed the text message from Trump aide Jason Miller to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows boasting, “I got the base fired up” — and the online comments of Trump supporters that Miller was boasting about:

“Our ‘lawmakers’ in Congress can leave one of two ways: 1. In a bodybag. 2. After rightfully certifying Trump the winner.”

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral/

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“We have sufficient information to consider criminal referrals from multiple individuals,” Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said — though, as she noted, “the vast weight of evidence presented so far has shown us that the central cause of January 6th was one man: Donald Trump.”