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Obstruction of an official proceeding.
For the delay in certification on Jan. 6 caused by the violence at the Capitol building.
Conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The committee asserts Trump was at the center of an organized effort to defraud the public, with repeated lies about the 2020 election.
Conspiracy to make a false statement.
The concept here is that Trump sanctioned a slate of false electors and that others attempted to submit those false slates on his behalf.
Inciting, assisting or aiding an insurrection.
The Jan. 6 committee asserts that Trump is guilty of aiding an insurrection by allowing the attack to continue without sending out a statement telling his supporters to stop. The committee left open the possibility of charging Trump with also inciting the riot, but indicated they saw the stronger charge as him "aiding" the event by refusing to step in and stop it.
Witness tampering.
While this was not a formal criminal referral in the committee report, the lawmakers on the Jan. 6 committee previously raised concerns that Trump may have tried to tamper with its witnesses.
Multiple outlets report that the special counsel also is looking into the Save America PAC, through which Trump raised millions of dollars after the election with his false 2020 claims. Specific possible charges, based on previous cases about fraudulent PACs, include:
Wire fraud.
The idea would be that Trump and the Save America team mislead their donors with overt lies.
Money laundering.
A charge that the purpose of the PAC was not to promote a cause, but actually to move money for someone's profit. (In this case, Trump's.)
Regarding the classified documents, some possible charges are indicated in the FBI's search warrant of Mar-a-Lago:
Mishandling of and unauthorized retention of national security documents.
Those are two separate but related possible charges.
Obstruction.
In this case, a possible charge that Trump knew he had records that the government was trying to find, and he willfully kept them from obtaining them.
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