January 6 Committee Says It Has Evidence Trump Engaged in 'Criminal Conspiracy'

The House committee in charge of investigating the January 6 U.S. Capitol takeover is coming forward with new evidence.

In a court filing on Wednesday (March 2), the committee claimed to have evidence that former President Donald Trump and his allies engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” to block the certification of the 2020 election results.

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This marks the first time the committee has acknowledged a potential criminal case against Trump, via CBS News.

It included rare disclosures of findings, and excerpts of the panel’s depositions and interviews with witnesses, including former Vice President Mike Pence‘s top advisers, former Justice Department leaders, and those close to Trump.

The filing is a response to a lawsuit by attorney John Eastman, who advised Trump in his final weeks in office, and has refused to provide documents to the committee and invoked attorney-client privilege.

The filing describes how the lawyer advised Trump to “press an unconstitutional plan” and sought to persuade Vice President Pence and his advisers to go along with the effort.

The lawyer and Pence‘s lawyer also reportedly traded blame over the violence on January 6.

In one email, Pence‘s lawyer Greg Jacob wrote, “thanks to your bulls–t we are now under siege,” to which John wrote back: “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened.”

“The facts we’ve gathered strongly suggest that Dr. Eastman‘s emails may show that he helped Donald Trump advance a corrupt scheme to obstruct the counting of electoral college ballots and a conspiracy to impede the transfer of power,” the committee’s Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney said in a statement.

“(E)vidence and information available to the Committee establishes a good-faith belief that Mr. Trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts, and that Plaintiff’s legal assistance was used in furtherance of those activities,” lawyers for the committee wrote in the filing.

Pence also recently spoke out about the election results.