花了一年多时间调查1月6日美国国会大厦袭击事件的立法者称对前总统的新指控唐纳德·特朗普与他们发现并向公众展示的内容一致。
“这确实感觉像是对法治和1月6日委员会工作的一个巨大证明，该委员会的工作是对试图推翻总统的事件进行事实陈述选举众议院1月6日特别委员会成员、民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)周二在《GMA 3》节目中回应起诉书时说。
该委员会的两名共和党人之一、前众议员亚当·金辛格(Adam Kinzinger)表示，这项起诉是“正义的开始”。
“在1/6委员会，我们发现了唐纳德·特朗普不仅知道国会大厦发生的事情，而且鼓励它的证据。他是我们民主的毒瘤，”金辛格说。
加州民主党众议员亚当·希夫(Adam Schiff)称，这项起诉“最重要，因为它触及了总统试图干涉我国历史上首次和平权力转移的核心。”
“这些指控——很大程度上基于我们在1月6日委员会的工作中发现的证据——以及随后的审判，将使我们的民主面临新的考验:能否对一位前总统和现任总统候选人实施法治?为了我们的民主，我们必须希望答案是肯定的，”希夫在一份声明中说。
特朗普否认有任何不当行为。他继续坚持认为2020年的投票受到操纵，并在周二接受美国广播公司新闻采访时，将最新的指控描述为“堆积”和“选举干预”。
担任众议院1月6日特别委员会主席的民主党众议员本尼·汤普森(Bennie Thompson)表示，特别顾问杰克·史密斯提出的刑事指控与该小组去年提交给司法部的指控“一致”。
该委员会的一些成员此前曾表示，他们相信自己的工作施加压力司法部追究特朗普和其他高层人物的责任。
“我认为我们举行的这些听证会给司法部带来了巨大的压力，”汤普森告诉记者周六去MSNBC.
史密斯对特朗普提出了四项指控，涉及他在2020年大选失败后继续掌权的阴谋，其中两项是该小组建议的:阴谋欺诈美国和妨碍官方诉讼。
然而，起诉书没有包括该委员会的建议，即否认有不当行为的特朗普应被指控煽动叛乱或阴谋发表虚假声明。
值得注意的是，史密斯的指控还包括阴谋侵犯人民的宪法权利，这是众议院委员会没有建议的。
在周二的起诉之前，前共和党众议员利兹·切尼在2022年告诉ABC新闻的乔纳森·卡尔尽管对特朗普提出指控将是前所未有的，但不这样做将构成“更严重的宪法威胁”。
切尼说:“我更关心的是，如果人们不对这里发生的事情负责，这将意味着什么。”。“我认为，如果一位总统能够参与这种活动，你知道，总统所在政党的大多数人都将目光移开，或者我们作为一个国家决定，你知道，我们实际上不会认真对待我们的宪法义务，这将是一个更严重的宪法威胁。”
切尼没有就周二的指控发表公开声明。美国广播公司新闻部对此事发表了评论。
众议院小组花了18个月的时间调查选举后和2021年1月6日发生的事情，并得出结论，特朗普是叛乱的“主要原因”。
长达45页的起诉书中的大部分内容在1月6日委员会的公开听证会期间呈现给了美国人民，总共10次，最终导致了历史性的刑事起诉。
该委员会采访了亚利桑那州、佐治亚州、宾夕法尼亚州、密歇根州和其他州的地方官员，特朗普的团队在这些州质疑了关于“假选民”阴谋不顾调查改变选举结果发现2020年选举期间没有大范围的欺诈。
例如，亚利桑那州的拉斯蒂·鲍尔斯在现场证词中召回特朗普团队的一名成员如何告诉他，“我们没有证据，但我们有很多理论”——起诉书中也引用了这句话。
该小组还采访了前特朗普政府官员，他们就他的压力运动关于司法部和前副总统迈克·彭斯，这些问题是起诉的主要焦点。
'Huge vindication': Jan. 6 committee members say Trump indictment in line with their findings
awmakers who spent more than a year investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are saying thenew indictment against former PresidentDonald Trumpis in line with what they uncovered and presented to the public.
"This does feel like a huge vindication of the rule of law and the work of the Jan. 6 committee to establish the factual narrative of what took place in the attempt to overthrow a presidentialelectionby a president," Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee, said Tuesday on "GMA 3" in response to the indictment.
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the committee, said the indictment is "the beginning of justice."
"On the 1/6 Committee, we uncovered proof that Donald Trump not only knew what was happening at the Capitol but encouraged it. He is a cancer on our democracy," Kinzinger said.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, called the indictment "the most consequential as it goes to the heart of a president's attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation's history."
"These charges -- based in large part on evidence we uncovered through our work on the January 6th Committee -- and the trial that will follow, will put our democracy to a new test: Can the rule of law be enforced against a former president and current candidate for president? For the sake of our democracy, we must hope that the answer is 'yes,'" Schiff said in a statement.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing. He continues to insist that the 2020 vote was rigged and, speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, described the latest charges as a "pile-on" and "election interference."
Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chaired the House Jan. 6 select committee, said the criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith are "consistent" with those the panel referred to the Department of Justice last year.
Some members of the committee have previously said they believed their workput pressureon the Justice Department to hold Trump and other top figures accountable.
“I think those hearings we held put significant pressure on the Department of Justice to come forward," Thompson toldMSNBC on Saturday.
Smith brought a total of four charges against Trump in connection with his plot to remain in power after his 2020 election loss, two of which were recommended by the panel: conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of an official proceeding.
However, the indictment did not include the committee's recommendation that Trump, who has denied wrongdoing, be charged with incitement of insurrection or with conspiracy to make a false statement.
Smith's charges also notably include conspiring against people’s constitutional rights, which the House committee didn't recommend.
Ahead of Tuesday's indictment, former Republican Rep. Liz Cheneytold ABC News' Jonathan Karl in 2022that while bringing charges against Trump would be unprecedented, not doing so would pose a "much graver constitutional threat."
"I have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren’t held accountable for what’s happened here," Cheney said. "I think it’s a much graver constitutional threat if a president can engage in these kinds of activities and, you know, the majority of the president's party looks away or we as a country decide, you know, we're not actually going to take our constitutional obligations seriously."
Cheney has not given a public statement about Tuesday's charges. ABC News has reached out for comment.The House panel spent 18 months probing what happened after the election and on Jan. 6, 2021, and came to the conclusion that Trump was the "central cause" of the insurrection.
Much of what was laid out in the 45-page indictment was presented to the American people during the course of the Jan. 6 committee's public hearings -- 10 in total -- which culminated in the historic criminal referrals.
President Donald Trump appears on the screen during a hearing by the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2022.
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The committee interviewed local officials in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and other states where Trump's team challenged the results about the"fake electors" plotto change the outcome of the election despite investigationsfindingthere was not widespread fraud during the 2020 election.
Arizona's Rusty Bowers, for example, in live testimonyrecalledhow a member of Trump's team told him, "We don't have the evidence, but we have lots of theories" -- a quote also cited in the indictment.
The panel also interviewed former Trump administration officials who testified about hispressure campaignon the Department of Justice and on former Vice President Mike Pence, issues that were a key focus of the indictment.
