News Analysis
The unanimous vote of the House select committee on the events of Jan. 6 to refer former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution may have met with an enthusiastic response from the former president’s many antagonists, but it places the DOJ in the position of facing intense public pressure to bring charges without necessarily having a firm legal basis to do so, a political consultant has told The Epoch Times.
On Dec. 19, the committee handed down its judgment that the evidence it reviewed establishes the president’s culpability for four crimes: insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, making a false statement to the federal government, and conspiracy to defraud the federal government….