Final report on Capitol riot describes Trump ‘conspiracy’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The January 6th committee’s final report asserts that former US president Donald Trump criminally engaged in a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It concludes an 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 814-page report released on Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1&comma;000 witnesses&comma; held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The witnesses — ranging from many of Mr Trump’s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves — detailed Mr Trump’s actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The insurrection gravely threatened democracy and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;put the lives of American lawmakers at risk”&comma; the nine-member panel concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a foreword to the report&comma; outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the findings should be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;clarion call to all Americans&colon; to vigilantly guard our Democracy and to give our vote only to those dutiful in their defence of our Constitution”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report’s eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel’s hearings did this summer — describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Mr Trump and his advisers devised to try and void US president Joe Biden’s victory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The politicians describe his pressure on states&comma; federal officials&comma; politicians and former vice president Mike Pence to game the system or break the law&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the two months between the election and the insurrection&comma; the report says&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach&comma; pressure&comma; or condemnation&comma; targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators&comma; to overturn State election results&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump’s repeated&comma; false claims of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters&comma; the committee said&comma; and were amplified on social media&comma; building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And he did little to stop them when they resorted to violence and stormed the US Capitol&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The massive&comma; damning report comes as Mr Trump is running again for the presidency and also facing multiple federal investigations&comma; including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week is particularly fraught for him&comma; as a House committee is expected to release his tax returns after he has fought for years to keep them private&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And Mr Trump has been blamed by Republicans for a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections&comma; leaving him in his most politically vulnerable state since he won the 2016 election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Posting on his social media site&comma; Mr Trump called the report &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;highly partisan” and falsely claimed it did not include his statement on January 6 that his supporters should protest &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;peacefully and patriotically”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The committee noted he followed that comment with election falsehoods and charged language exhorting the crowd to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fight like hell”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report details a multitude of failings by law enforcement and intelligence agencies&period; 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