Andrew Weissman, a top prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, said the Justice Department is taking “the wrong approach” to investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Cassidy Hutchinson’s dramatic testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee has “jolted” the Justice Department to begin discussing whether former President Donald Trump was criminally culpable for the insurrection.
Donald Trump told advisers that if he were to run for another term as president, it would act as a potential shield against criminal prosecution.
Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, said it’s possible that the panel could make a criminal referral to the Justice Department against former President Donald Trump.
Former President Trump wanted to join the Jan. 6 riot and lunged at a Secret Service agent in a limousine when he was told he couldn’t go, according to testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he’s watching the Jan. 6 hearings as some of the committee members are advocating criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and others.
Secret Service agents hurried to find a way for then-President Donald Trump to ride in a motorcade with his followers as they marched on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
Five members of the right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys, were charged Monday with seditious conspiracy for their actions ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
