Jan. 6 committee says it has evidence Trump committed crimes in bid to overturn election

The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots says it has evidence that former President Donald Trump and his campaign team committed crimes in their efforts to overturn the presidential election results.

The Democratic-dominated special committee made the charge in court filings made public late Wednesday.

“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

The panel released its findings as part of its efforts to force John Eastman, an attorney who was a key driver of Mr. Trump’s strategy to reverse the election, to produce crucial emails that might tie together the scheme that the panel described.

Those findings included excerpts of numerous depositions from top aides to Mr. Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence.