Updated On: 24 December, 2022 10:07 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Capitol riot panel’s final report says former US president should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly rampage

President Donald Trump talks on the phone to Vice President Mike Pence from the Oval Office on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. Pic/AP
The congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former U.S. President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot.
The 814-page report released Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained more than a million pages of documents. The witnesses — ranging from Trump’s closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves — detailed Trump’s “premeditated” actions in the weeks ahead of the attack and how his wide-ranging efforts to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.