The congressional panel probing last year’s deadly assault on the US Capitol branded Donald Trump “unfit for any office” Monday as it prepared to vote on whether to recommend criminal charges against the former president, IgbereTV reports
The decision – expected to cap the House of Representatives select committee’s final public meeting – will be the culmination of an 18-month probe that interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and held explosive public hearings on the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021.
At least five people died after a mob whipped up by Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, and directed to march on Congress by the defeated president, ransacked the seat of US democracy in a thwarted bid to prevent the transfer of power to President Joe Biden.
The committee is expected to urge the Justice Department to pursue Trump on at least three charges related to the violence – inciting an insurrection, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiring to defraud the United States
