Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Foreword: Speaker of the House  vii
Foreword: Chairman  viii
Foreword: Vice Chair  xiv
Executive Summary  1
Executive Summary: Overview of the Evidence Developed  8
Referrals to the U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel and House Ethics Committee  98
Efforts to Avoid Testifying, Evidence of Obstruction, and Assessments of Witness Credibility  118
Summary: Creation of the Select Committee; Purposes  128
Select Committee Witnesses Were Almost Entirely Republican  131
THE BIG LIE  195
1.1 The Big Lie Reflected Deliberate Exploitation of the “Red Mirage”  197
1.2 Trump’s Pre-Election Plans to Declare Victory  199
1.3 Trump’s Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process  201
1.4 President Trump’s Launch of the Big Lie  202
1.5 Post-Election: President Trump Replaces His Campaign Team  203
1.6 President Trump’s Campaign Team Told Him He Lost the Election and There Was No Significant Fraud 204
1.7 President Trump Had His Day in Court  210
1.8 President Trump Repeatedly Promoted Conspiracy Theories  213
1.9 President Trump’s January 6th Speech  231
“I JUST WANT TO FIND 11,780 VOTES”  263
2.1 The Electoral College, and President Trump’s Attempt to Subvert It  265
2.2 The Plan Emerges  266
2.3 Outreach and Implementation of the Plan  270
2.4 An Outright Request for Victory  291
2.5 Some Officials Eagerly Assisted President Trump With His Plans  293
2.6 The Final Outreach to State Legislators  296
2.7 The Harm Caused by Demonizing Public Servants 300
FAKE ELECTORS AND THE “THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE STRATEGY”  341
3.1 Laying the Groundwork for the Fake Elector Plan: The Chesebro Memos  343
3.2 President Trump and the Campaign Adopt the Fake Elector Scheme  345
3.3 The Campaign Legal Team Bows Out, and Giuliani Steps In  346
3.4 Some of the Proposed Fake Electors Express Concerns About the Plan  351
3.5 On December 14th, The Fake Electors Meet and Vote   352
3.6 The Fallout from the Fake Elector Plan  354
‘‘JUST CALL IT CORRUPT AND LEAVE THE REST TO ME’’ 373
4.1 The DOJ Found No Significant Evidence of Fraud  373
4.2 November 23, 2020: Barr Challenges President Trump’s Election Lies  374
4.3 December 1, 2020: President Trump is Irate After Barr Says There is No Significant Fraud  376
4.4 December 14, 2020: Barr Submits His Resignation  379
4.5  Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue Hold the Line 381
4.6  President Trump is Introduced to Jeffrey Clark  382
4.7  December 27th Phone Call  384
4.8  Congressman Scott Perry Calls Donoghue 387
4.9  December 28, 2020: The Clark Letter 389
4.10 December 29th Meeting  393
4.11 Rosen’s December 30th Call with President Trump  395
4.12 December 31st Meeting  396
4.13 January 2, 2021: Rosen and Donoghue Confront Clark Again  397
4.14 January 3, 2021: Clark Informs DOJ Leadership that He Will Accept President Trump’s Offer  398
4.15 President Trump’s Unprecedented Attempt to Subvert the DOJ  402
“A COUP IN SEARCH OF A LEGAL THEORY”  427
5.1 President Trump and His Allies Embark on a Desperate Gambit to Block Certification of the 2020 Presidential Election.  430
5.2 President Trump and his Allies Exert Intense Public and Private Pressure on the Vice President in Advance of the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th  441
5.3 President Trump and his Allies Continue to Pressure the Vice President on January 6th, Threatening His Life and Our Democracy.  456
5.4 President Trump Endangers Pence’s Life, Causing the Vice President, His Family, and Staff to Narrowly Miss the Rioters as They Flee the Mob Attacking the Capitol.  465
5.5 Aftermath of the Attack. 469
“BE THERE, WILL BE WILD!” 499
6.1  How Far-Right Extremists and Conspiracy Theorists Planned for January 6th  502
6.2  The Proud Boys: “[Y]ou Want to Storm the Capitol”  507
6.3  The Oath Keepers: “He Called Us All to the Capitol and Wants Us to Make it Wild!!!”  512
6.4  “Trump Said It’s Gonna be Wild!!!!!!! It’s Gonna be Wild!!!!!!!”  514
6.5  “Ready to Step in And Do What Is Needed”  516
6.6  “Friends of Stone”  517
6.7  White Nationalists: “The Capitol Siege was Fucking Awesome…”  519
6.8  The Three (III%) Percenters: “#OccupyCongress”  521
6.9  QAnon: “Operation Occupy the Capitol”  525
6.10 TheDonald.win: “Occupy the Capitol”  527
6.11 How the White House and Rally Organizers Prepared for January 6th  530
6.12 “He’s Calling on You, He Needs Your Help”  531
6.13 “Trump is Supposed to Order Us to the Capitol”  532
6.14 “Well, I Should Walk With the People.”  533
6.15 “POTUS…Likes the Crazies.”  534
6.16 January 5, 2021: “Fort Trump”  536
6.17 “Together, We Will STOP THE STEAL.”  538
187 MINUTES OF DERELICTION  577
7.1 “Reinsert the Mike Pence Lines”  581
7.2  “I’ll Be There With You”  585
7.3  The President’s Anger When He Could Not March to the Capitol  587
7.4  “We’re Going to Try to Get the President to Put Out a Statement”  592
7.5  “He Doesn’t Want to Do Anything”  595
7.6  “He Thinks Mike Deserves It”  596
7.7  “I Guess They’re Just More Upset About the Election Theft Than You Are”  597
7.8  “Stay Peaceful!”  599
7.9  “The President Needs to Stop This ASAP” 600
7.10 “We Love You. You’re Very Special”  603
7.11 “Remember This Day Forever!”  607
7.12 President Trump Still Sought to Delay the Joint Session  608
7.13 He “Just Didn’t Want to Talk About It Anymore”  610
7.14 President Trump’s “Rhetoric Killed Someone”  611
ANALYSIS OF THE ATTACK  637
8.1 The Mob Assembles in Washington  639
8.2 March of the Proud Boys  642
8.3 The Initial Attack  645
8.4 President Trump’s Mob Descends on the U.S. Capitol  647
8.5 The Mob Surges  651
8.6 The United States Capitol is Breached  653
8.7 President Trump Pours Fuel on the Fire  659
8.8 The Evacuation  664
8.9 Clearing the U.S. Capitol Building and Restricted Grounds  666
Recommendations  689
GOVERNMENT AGENCY PREPARATION FOR AND RESPONSE TO JANUARY 6TH  693
APPENDIX 2: DC NATIONAL GUARD PREPARATION FOR AND RESPONSE TO JANUARY 6TH  724
APPENDIX 3: THE BIG RIP-OFF: FOLLOW THE MONEY  770
APPENDIX 4: MALIGN FOREIGN INFLUENCE 806
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