The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack released its final report on Thursday, concluding that then-President Donald Trump incited the insurrection with the false claim the 2020 election was stolen, and recommending that Congress consider barring him from holding public office again.
The 845-page report is based on 1,000-plus interviews and a massive collection of documents compiled during a year-and-half-long investigation. "That evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: the central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of Jan. 6th would have happened without him," the report said.
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