Opinion by Greg Sargent: The Jan. 6 report will draw blood even if Trump faces no charges
that the committee will vote on whether to refer three charges: obstruction of Congress’s electoral count, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and insurrection.
Trump gave “aid or comfort” to rioters carrying out a “rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States.” Conviction would also disqualify Trump from holding future office. Whether the committee recommends the charge of insurrection, or seditious conspiracy, or both, it would alert the public to the idea that Trump didn’t merely exercise what he thought were his legal options and inadvertently stray into corrupt conduct. Instead, Trump actively plotted to subvert our political order, and weaponized the mob to complete the coup after his premeditated procedural corruption failed.
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