Fake Electors May Provide Easiest Path for DOJ to Charge Trump
- Despite Jan. 6 hearings, Trump charges likely narrowly focused
- Merrick Garland won’t rule out charging former president
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As Congressional hearings into Jan. 6 pause for an August break, the focus turns to the US Justice Department, which must decide whether to prosecute former President Donald Trump.
Although a House committee investigating the assault on the Capitol has laid out an array of potential crimes committed by the former president, experts say the easiest charges to prove may come from his attempts to submit lists of fake electors.