Gustaf Kilander writes:

While the witnesses in general chose not to go along with the committee’s questioning, the published transcripts reveal the sheer amount of evidence the panel has collected and some new aspects of how the investigators went about their work.

The Jan 6 committee report has revealed that prominent members of the Proud Boys were in touch with Info Wars host Alex Jones during the 6 January attack and in the days following it, reported NBC.

Citing records from Proud Boys member Enrique Tarrio’s phone, the report stated that he texted with Jones three times and Jones’ Info Wars co-host Owen Shroyer five times during the riot.

Another Proud Boys member, Ethan Nordean, exchanged 23 texts with Mr Shroyer between 4-5 January.

The two also spoke by phone on each of those days.

Eric Garcia writes:

Senator Raphael Warnock’s victory in Georgia officially bookended perhaps the most topsy-turvy midterm election cycle of my lifetime.

The day afterward, I did a little obligatory gloating, tweeting about how I predicted the final results of his race against Herschel Walker to an accuracy of less than a point. After initially screwing up the math, I thought that Walker would keep it much tighter than expected, given that national and state Republicans were campaigning for him. But I failed to see how that could overcome Warnock’s significant advantage with early voting.

I was pretty proud of that one. But the truth is that for every outcome I correctly predicted, I whiffed far more races.

While former Attorney General William Barr, and the Justice Department (DOJ), were publicly silent for weeks after the 2020 election, the Jan 6 committee report has claimed that the official was trying to contain former president Donald Trump’s “conspiracy-mongering”.

The report states that Mr Barr and DOJ were “forced to knock down one lie after another” and that the Justice Department was “trying to contain the president’s conspiracy-mongering”, reported NBC.

Julie Fancelli, the Publix supermarket chain heiress who funded bus transport for hundreds of Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol on 6 January 2021, attempted to avoid answering questions before the House January 6 select committee by citing a litany of – occasionally irrelevant – amendments to the US constitution, as well as her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Andrew Feinberg took a look at her evasive testimony.

The Jan 6 Committee report has claimed that former president Donald Trump refused to act as the riot unfolded on 6 January 2021.

“President Trump did not contact a single top national security official during the day. Not at the Pentagon, nor at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Capitol Police Department, or the DC Mayor’s office,” the committee was quoted as saying in its report by CNN.

“As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn’t even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe.”

The Jan 6 Committee report has recommended that former president Donald Trump be barred from holding office again.The recommendation is among the conclusions of the panel’s final report, reported CNN.

The panel refers to a section of the Constitution that states an individual who has taken an oath to support the US Constitution but has “engaged in an insurrection” or given “aid or comfort to the enemies of the Constitution” can be disqualified from office.

The former president and others have been referred by the committee to the Department of Justice for assisting or aiding an insurrection.

The report also calls on congressional committees of jurisdiction to create a “formal mechanism” for evaluating whether those individuals violate that section of the 14th Amendment should be barred from future federal or state office.

Donald Trump spent his final days in the Oval Office claiming the election was rigged and skipped his successor’s inauguration, but wrote a “shockingly gracious” handover note to Joe Biden, according to a new book.

Shweta Sharma has the story.

The Jan 6 committee report has identified pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro as being the original architect of the legally dubious fake electors plan, reported CNN.

“The fake elector plan emerged from a series of legal memoranda written by an outside legal advisor to the Trump Campaign: Kenneth Chesebro,” the report said.

It added that Mr Chesebro sent a memo to then-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani after a request from Trump campaign official Boris Epshteyn about a “‘President of the Senate’ strategy”.

The strategy wrongly asserted that the vice president could pick which presidential electors to count during the joint session of Congress on 6 January.

“President Trump in the days immediately before January 6th, Chesebro – an attorney based in Boston and New York recruited to assist the Trump Campaign as a volunteer legal advisor – was central to the creation of the plan,” the report says.

“Memos by Chesebro on November 18th, December 9th, and December 13th, as discussed below, laid the plan’s foundation.”

Members of the January 6 committee released their-long awaited final report late Thursday evening.

The more than 800-page document was clearly focused primarily on the actions and rhetoric of former President Donald Trump. Several chapters were titled with now-infamous quotes from the ex-president, including his prediction that the demonstrations in Washington would be “wild”.

John Bowden, Andrew Feinberg have the details: