Summary highlight: Ivanka Trump was not ‘forthcoming,' panel says
The committee's executive summary highlights a series of revelations and accusations against key figures who have testified.
Among them, the panel accuses Ivanka Trump of not being as "forthcoming as Cipollone and others about President Trump’s conduct," saying she exhibited “a lack of full recollection of certain issues.”
She wasn’t the only White House official the panel called out. It said portions of former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s testimony “seemed evasive, as if she was testifying from pre-prepared talking points.” It added: “In multiple instances, McEnany’s testimony did not seem nearly as forthright as that of her press office staff, who testified about what McEnany said.”
Summary highlight: Trump's plan to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6
The executive summary says the committee believes Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to personally lead the effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory.
"The committee’s principal concern was that the president actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise," the summary said.
"The committee regarded those facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump’s intent on January 6th," the summary continued. "There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent."
The summary then said a White House security official who was in the White House complex on Jan. 6 became "very concerned about his intentions," referring to Trump. The committee interviewed the official on July 11, 2022, and kept his identity confidential "due to their sensitive national security responsibilities."
"[W]e all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else if he physically walked to the Capitol," the official said. "I don’t know if you want to use the word 'insurrection,' 'coup,' whatever. We all knew that this would move from a normal, democratic, you know, public event into something else."
Committee report offers more detail on Trump's 'furious interaction' in SUV
The committee's executive summary also provides more detail on the bombshell testimony this summer from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Hutchinson had testified that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential vehicle and lunged toward his security detail when he was informed he would not be taken to the Capitol after his Jan. 6 rally.
“After he exited the stage, President Trump entered the presidential SUV and forcefully expressed his intention that Bobby Engel, the head of his Secret Service detail, direct the motorcade to the Capitol," the summary says. "The committee has now obtained evidence from several sources about a ‘furious interaction’ in the SUV."
"The vast majority of witnesses who have testified before the select committee about this topic, including multiple members of the Secret Service, a member of the Metropolitan Police, and national security officials in the White House, described President Trump’s behavior as 'irate,' 'furious,' 'insistent,' 'profane' and 'heated,'" the summary stated.
Committee report: Giuliani admitted that voting machines didn't steal the election
Former Trump lawyer and longtime ally Rudy Giuliani, who helped fuel Trump's lies about the 2020 election, said he did not believe the outlandish claims he pushed about voting machines fixing the election, according to the committee's summary of its report.
"Giuliani repeatedly had claimed in public that Dominion voting machines stole the election," the summary said, but added, "He admitted during his Select Committee deposition that, 'I do not think the machines stole the election.'"
Soon after Jan. 6, Dominion Voting Systems, the election equipment manufacturer that became the target of wild conspiracy theories pushed by Trump and his allies, sued Giuliani for defamation.
Read the full text of the Jan. 6 committee’s report summary
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a 154-page summary of its findings Monday, the culmination of nearly 18 months of work.
The committee says it expects to release the full report later this week, as well as a number of transcripts from witness depositions.
Read what the committee is calling its introductory material here.
Trump shares one post on Truth Social during the final committee meeting
During the Jan. 6 committee's final meeting, Trump made one post to his Truth Social account, saying he would have won the 2020 election if Twitter had not blocked a New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
"This would have easily changed the Presidential Election outcome without even discussing all of the other illegal things they did," Trump wrote on his account.
Trump linked to a Fox News article related to Twitter’s decision to block the New York Post story on Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election. Trump was suggesting that Twitter’s suppression of the story would have given him a second term in the White House.
Inside the final Jan. 6 committee meeting
The Jan. 6 committee met for what’s likely its final public meeting, with many of the usual faces present. As ever, officers who defended the Capitol were front row — including U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Washington, D.C., Police Officer Daniel Hodges and former Washington Police Officer Michael Fanone.
Reps. Madeline Dean and Mary Gay Scanlon, both Pennsylvania Democrats, former Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., and some members of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staff were also present in the room.
The hearing room had a quiet energy as the lawmakers began, which endured for the entirety of the meeting.
During a lengthy Jan. 6 highlight reel, members looked very serious and solemn. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., sitting next to Cheney, had his hands clasped in front of his face for a full minute.
When Raskin began reading out the referral recommendations, the mood in the room became more tense and alert. Some people took pictures of the screen that laid out specific statutes against Trump, Eastman “and others,” aware that his information was new and what many were waiting on.
As they took the recorded vote of each member saying “aye” to adopt the panel's final report, the room shifted and some attendees took pictures or video on their phones.
Some applause broke out right after the hearing wrapped and as members exited. Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Pete Aguilar went to shake hands with the officers in the front row.
Jan. 6 committee adjourns meeting
The House Jan. 6 committee concluded its meeting, marking an end to nearly a year and a half of work investigating the events surrounding the riot at the Capitol.
Committee votes unanimously to adopt final report
The committee has voted unanimously to adopt its final report, which Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., said includes the panel's legislative recommendations and criminal referrals of Trump and others.