Trump blasts Jan. 6 committee following final report release

Former US President Donald Trump says the American people have been “deceived with lies” about the January 6, 2021 attack from the House select committee investigating the incident.

Trump made the remarks in a video posted to Truth Social on Friday after the committee released its report on Thursday with its conclusions on the violent Capitol protest march.

The committee also made a series of 11 recommendations for actions that Congress should take to prevent efforts similar to those to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election from happening again. It also made referrals for the Justice Department to pursue four criminal charges against Trump.

Trump said the House committee “cut the part” of his speech at the rally at the Ellipse preceding the unrest out in which he said demonstrators will be walking to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.”

But he also said in his speech that people must show “strength” to “take back our country” and called on people to “fight like hell.”

Trump said Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the committee, “deliberately omitted” in a public committee hearing a part of a tweet he posted on Jan. 6 in which he told protesters to “go home with love and in peace.”

For the tweet Trump references, Cheney only read the part in which he said, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.”

The 845-page House report, produced after months of witness testimony heard by the bipartisan nine-member panel, said, “President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either State legislators or State or local election administrators, to overturn State election results” in the two months between the election and the Capitol riots.

Bennie Thompson, the panel's chairman, said in an introduction to the report that "our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions and fomenting violence.”

Thompson called on lawmakers to legislate so that Trump and others who "engaged in the insurrection" can be barred from holding office "whether federal or state, civilian or military."

The panel concluded that Trump should be charged with four offenses, including insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the US, and obstructing a congressional proceeding.

On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.

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Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.

Trump has been casting doubt on the outcome of his loss by insisting it was the result of fraud. He has said that the 2020 presidential election was “the greatest Election Hoax in history.”

Trump’s claims have significantly delegitimatized the democratic process in the United States. A recent poll has found that at least 50 percent of Republican voters surveyed believe their vote will not be counted accurately the next time they cast a ballot.

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