House Committee To Decide Whether To Criminally Investigate Trump’s Jan. 6 Actions
The special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is paying specific focus to former President Donald Trump‘s actions that day. The committee is deliberating whether or not to recommend that the Justice Department open an investigation into Trump for criminal activity. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) said that the committee has a particular interest in why Trump took so long to tell his supporters to end the riot. Trump encouraged his supporters in their riot against the Capitol and against the election results. He ultimately released a video telling the riot...