The document on the January 6 investigation calls for legislation to prevent the ex-president from running in future elections.
“:”Donald Trump should never be allowed to run for public office again after inciting an insurrection, lawmakers investigating last year’s assault on the US Capitol concluded in their watershed final report. The recommendation led a list of proposals from the 845-page document aimed at ensuring there is no repeat of the deadly riot the ex-president is accused of orchestrating in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election. “Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions [and] fomenting violence,” the panel’s chairman Bennie Thompson said in an introduction to the report, released late on Thursday. The document urges lawmakers to legislate so that Trump and others who “engaged in insurrection” can be barred from holding office – “whether federal or state, civilian or military”. Trump has announced he intends to run for the White House again in 2024. The report was the culmination of 18 months of work by congressional investigators who interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses to establish the primary cause of the attack, which they blamed squarely on the Republican billionaire.
