January 6th Committee Confirms They WILL Be Sending Criminal Referrals To The DOJ

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The Chair of the January 6th Committee confirmed this week that criminal referrals from the Committee will absolutely be heading to the DOJ, but he refused to clarify who or what could be in those referrals. There has been some argument among the committee about whether to recommend indictments for Donald Trump since the DOJ is already looking into his alleged crimes, so it is unlikely he'll be among those getting referrals. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to January 6th, committee Chairman Benny Thompson, the committee is in fact prepared to issue multiple different criminal referrals to the United States Department of Justice when the committee finishes it, its work, uh, which really could be any day. Now, however, don't get your hopes up too much that those criminal referrals are gonna be about Donald Trump. The committee is still torn on whether or not they want to issue any criminal referrals for Trump with some members of the committee believing that it would be redundant considering the fact that the DOJ itself is already investigating the very same things that the committee would be issuing criminal referrals for. So what could we expect from these potential criminal referrals? Well, according to the committee, perjury, obstruction, obstruction, excuse me, witness tampering, and kind of mostly just procedural referrals. So as it stands right now, based on what the committee has publicly said, we're probably not gonna see any criminal referrals for hardened criminal activity.

We're not gonna see referrals for the fake elector scheme. We're not gonna be seeing referrals for possibly inciting a riot. It's gonna be crimes that only existed because the committee existed, which are still crimes, but not exactly the kinds of things that we had hoped for. Now, as for the Trump part of it, right, the committee may, may not do it. We don't know. They're already looking into it. Why do we have to bother? I think you do have to bother. We cannot for a second assume that the United States Department of Justice is 100% going to indict Trump, and the committee needs to be acting under that belief. They need to come away with something coming away with nothing more than, oh, these people committed crimes only because we asked them questions and they lied to us. Okay, well, if the committee didn't exist, those crimes wouldn't exist.

So that's not exactly the, you know, breakthrough that we wanted to see here. Yes, it should be taken seriously, and yes, you should refer those people for prosecution, but you kind of need to come with something related to January 6th, whether against, uh, Donald Trump, whether it's against his lawyers, whether it's against any member of his administration or his campaign, something, something related to the actual work and not just obstructions that you encountered along the way in your investigation. And again, we have no guarantee that anybody at that DOJ is actually going to hand down an indictment of Donald Trump. You

Need to put it before them to show the public that we think this man committed crimes. We have evidence that shows he committed crimes and we think he should be prosecuted. Put more pressure on the doj, which is what that would do. Don't put it solely in their hands. We have seen them kind of, you know, handle it with kid gloves from this point. We don't need to see that happen anymore. We need you to tell them, we found this crime. You do something about it. The public will take notice, and more importantly, they'll remember. If the DOJ does nothing about it, you have the ability to put that pressure on them. And I seriously hope you take advantage of that situation. Today's video sponsor is my heritage.