Donald Trump has become the first former US president to face criminal referrals from a Congressional committee, after a damning probe into last year’s Capitol riot recommended prosecution for insurrection, conspiracy, false statements, and obstruction.
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The referrals against the twice-impeached president include four key offences: inciting or assisting an insurrection; obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the United States; and conspiracy to make a false statement. Trump’s former electoral lawyer John Eastman - the author of a memo outlining a plan to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory - and unspecified “others” were also referred to the department.
However, this is also merely symbolic because the committee is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, and there are only a few days left before the new Congress begins, which will change the membership of the committees across both chambers.
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