Jan. 6 panel’s final report will tackle foreign exploitation of Trump election lies
The section on overseas efforts to influence 2020 balloting is one of four appendices to the massive Capitol riot select committee report, expected on Thursday.
The Jan. 6 select committee’s final report will include analysis of foreign adversaries’ attempts to capitalize on Donald Trump’s election disinformation, according to a person familiar with the investigation’s long-awaited culmination that’s now set for release Thursday.
The select panel announced Wednesday afternoon the full report would be filed and released Thursday, a departure from the original expected publication date. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise address to Congress scheduled for Wednesday evening and the last-minute machinations over the year-end $1.7 trillion government funding bill likely complicated planning at the committee, which said some records could still be released Wednesday.
The foreign influence section will appear as one of four appendices to the final report’s eight chapters. The first two appendices are focused on Capitol security and the slow mobilization of the National Guard to respond to the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters intent on disrupting the certification of his loss to Joe Biden.
The third appendix covers the work of the select committee’s so-called “green team,” which scrutinized the money trail behind the “Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse that Trump headlined on Jan. 6, which quickly metastasized into a Capitol siege. Committee members have raised the prospect of potential campaign finance violations related to the pre-riot rally.
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NEW — The Jan. 6 committee’s final report will include an analysis of the way foreign adversaries sought to capitalize on Donald Trump’s election disinformation, per person familiar
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