The House January 6th Select Committee is weighing whether Trump and his minions’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election amounts to a criminal conspiracy based on the massive trove of evidence gathered so far, the Guardian reports. The movement marks a serious escalation of the congressional inquiry and strongly indicates the committee is going to take the explosive step of sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department to indict the disgraced former president.
The report cites specific communications between former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and others coordinating efforts to disrupt the certification as the main evidence supporting a conspiracy charge. In recent weeks a number of Capitol rioters have had their attempts to have conspiracy and obstruction of official proceeding charges dismissed in court, and some observers noted the motions for denial written by federal judges were a clear danger sign for the Trump team.