But increasingly, lawmakers on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack are pushing Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump and his associates.  They presented possible crimes in at least one case and openly discussed others, all about the violent attack that day by Trump supporters who were trying to disrupt the official certification of Congress for his re-election.
The following is a look at some of the proposed crimes presented by the House panel:


CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY FOR UNITED STATE FRAUD 
After sudden possible crimes for several months, lawmakers on the panel put it on paper for the first time in a court hearing in March.  The testimony was in response to a lawsuit filed by John Eastman, a lawyer and law professor who consulted with Trump as he tried to overthrow the election and who tried to hide documents from the commission.
The commission said it had evidence that Trump, Eastman and other allies of the former president “entered into an agreement to deceive the United States.”  The commission says Trump and his allies interfered in the election certification process, spread misinformation about electoral fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in the effort.


MONITORING OFFICIAL PROCEDURE 
Late last month, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter appeared somewhat influenced by the commission’s arguments.  To order Eastman to hand over the materials, Carter wrote that the court “finds it more likely that President Trump attempted corruption to prevent the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
In the testimony, the commission claimed that Trump either attempted or succeeded in obstructing, influencing or obstructing the ritual process on January 6 and “did it corruptly” by pressing Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results as he chaired the session.  Pence refused to do so.
“President Trump and members of his campaign knew he had not won enough legitimate votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election at the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, but the President nevertheless tried to use the Vice President to manipulate the results are in his favor “, the committee wrote.


COMMON FRAUD 
The commission has also accused him of “common law fraud” or misrepresentation of what he knew to be false.  Trump has launched a large-scale campaign to convince the public and federal judges that the 2020 election was rigged and that he, not Biden, won the College election.  Election officials and courts across the country, along with Attorney General Trump, have denied the allegations.
As an example of such fraud, the commission noted in Eastman’s testimony that a Justice Department official told Trump directly that a Facebook video posted by his campaign “allegedly showing Georgian officials pulling ballot boxes under a table »Was false, however the campaign continued to run it.  Georgian officials have also repeatedly denied the allegations.
“The president has continued to rely on this allegation in his efforts to overturn the election results,” the commission said.


TERMINATION OF DUTY 
Although they did not put it in Eastman’s statement, House panel leaders suggested earlier this year that they believed Trump could also be held responsible for “inaction” or inaction, as his supporters violently smashed windows and windows. doors of the US Capitol.
A spokesman for Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Chair of the committee, said in January that “the bad thing I see is that the president of the United States sees the US Capitol being besieged by people he sent to the Capitol and did nothing.” The space”.
The committee’s vice-chairwoman, MP Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, noted the same month that the panel knew “first hand” that Trump had watched the attack on television.  “We know he did not walk the few steps to the White House newsroom, he immediately got on camera and told people to stop and go home,” he said.
Cheney said it was difficult to “imagine a more significant and serious omission” from Trump’s failure to quell the uprising.


ECONOMIC CRIMES 
Although the committee did not provide details, it set up an internal working group to investigate the financing of the mass rally at the National Mall on the morning of January 6 and any donors who could support the transfer or other expenses that could help strengthen of violence.
Asked earlier this year by CNN if they had any evidence of financial fraud, Thompson said the commission members “have some concerns, but we have not made those concerns public at this point”.
“We think it’s very worrying for us that people have raised money for an activity and we can not find the money spent on that activity,” Thompson said.  “It simply came to our notice then.  And funding is one of those things that we will continue to look at very carefully. “


UNCERTAINTY AHEAD 
More than 775 rioters have been arrested for insurgency-related crimes.  However, the legal consequences were elusive for Trump and other top officials who lied about electoral fraud and laid the groundwork for their actions.
Congress does not have the power to prosecute, but it can send so-called criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.  Garland can then decide whether to act.
The action of the Ministry of Justice would not be guaranteed at all.  And it is uncertain whether any charges against the often-investigated president will go to court.  It could be difficult for prosecutors to create a winning case against Trump.
The presodemt urged the huge crowd of his supporters that morning and returned to the White House and watched them invade the Capitol on television.  The rioters beat the police, sent lawmakers to run and cut off the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.