Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., spoke on Dec. 19 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its final findings to the public. Aguilar said that former President Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election “touched nearly every component of our federal system.” Aguilar focused on Trump’s attempts to convince former Vice President Mike Pence to act on his behalf in a summation of findings dubbed “Vice President Pence pressure campaign.”
“[Trump] embraced an illegal scheme proposed by John Eastman and others who concocted an unfounded legal theory that the vice president could reject Joe Biden’s electoral votes during the joint session,” he said.
Aguilar added that when Pence resisted those attempts, Trump and others “exerted both private and public pressure to change his mind,” and detailed several examples of that conduct.
The Jan. 6 committee will release its full report later this week as the panel wraps up its work.
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