Donald Trump Capitol insurrection: Former Democratic Senator lays out how DOJ could indict ex-POTUS

More information has surfaced regarding former President Donald Trump’s culpability in the Capitol insurrection over the past months. As the Justice Department is also facing calls to prosecute, a former Democratic senator explained how she would get Attorney General Merrick Garland to persuade the grand jury to indict the former president.

Speaking on MSNBC, former Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill explained how she would get Garland to successfully persuade members of a grand jury to place criminal charges on Trump. McCaskill, who is also a former state prosecutor, said that prosecutors could walk the jury through what would be the time when the former president was watching the insurrection unfold.

McCaskill went on to explain that the text messages, emails, phone calls, and pleas for help that Trump and his aides were getting were proof of the now-former president’s malicious intent.

“We can go through and we can put the images at a specific time,” McCaskill told host Nicolle Wallace.

“And we can then fill in the text messages, the phone calls that were flooding the White House saying, get him to call them off. Now, what was he watching on TV at those moments? He was watching windows being broken. He was watching police officers being stabbed with flag poles. He was watching people hang from the balcony in the Senate. He was watching people carry around government property proudly like trophies in the Capitol. And frankly, he was watching a confrontation at the door of the House where someone was killed,” McCaskill continued.

The former president, who was impeached for a second time over the insurrection, and his actions are increasingly being focused on as the House committee continues its probe into the events. Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell, who revealed that Trump made a call to his allies’ war room at the Willard Hotel on the day Congress was to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, explained what it would mean for the investigation moving forward.

Lowell explained that the committee is becoming more and more likely to consider making a criminal referral to the former president, noting that they were also looking at the referral for Trump strategist Steve Bannon, as well as referrals for Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani and coup memo author John Eastman.

Lowell noted that the committee has already received a trove of evidence, especially from former chief of staff Mark Meadows and described the former president as “in a bit of a meltdown” over the evidence that the committee has.