The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday to decide whether to submit the allegations of contempt of Congress by former President Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, to the Department of Justice because he refused to say that he was trying to overthrow Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Lose.

A congressional committee composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans voted unanimously on Monday to recommend that Meadows face criminal charges.

Meadows said in an interview with Fox News Cable Network on Monday night that the committee's decision was "disappointing, but not surprising."

Meadows said: "This is about Donald Trump and actually hunting him down again."

Before Monday’s committee vote, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney detailed the text messages sent to Meadows when the Capitol was attacked on January 6, famous conservative media figures and Trump One of his sons urged Meadows to encourage Trump to take more steps to stop his actions. supporter.

Cheney said that this information showed Trump's "extreme dereliction of duty" and raised questions about whether he tried to suspend Congress's task of certifying the results of the presidential election through inaction, indicating that he had failed.

"There is no doubt about these texts," Cheney said. "The White House knows exactly what happened to the Capitol."

The chairman of the House Special Committee, Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson (Bennie Thompson) said in his opening speech: "No matter what [Meadows] thinks he has left in the House of Representatives, this is now his legacy." Meadow Si is a former Republican representative from North Carolina.

Meadows handed over 6,600 pages of records extracted from personal email accounts and approximately 2,000 text messages to a nine-member House committee that investigated the presence of hundreds of Trump supporters in Congress 11 months ago. Violence in the building. The trouble happened when lawmakers proved that Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in his re-election campaign.

Meadows initially agreed to testify about his role before January 6 to help Trump get his second four-year term in the White House and his actions that day. The protesters “fight like hell” at Trump’s urging to keep him in power. They rushed into the Capitol, smashed windows and clashed with the police. Last week, Meadows changed his testimony on the grounds that Trump claimed to have administrative privileges to keep documents confidential to prevent investigations.

The House Committee has detained another former Trump aide, Steve Bannon, in contempt for Congress’s refusal to comply with the subpoena to testify. Bannon was later charged, and if found guilty, he could face up to one year in prison.

Late on Sunday, the investigative team released a 51-page report showing that Meadows was deeply involved in efforts to keep Trump in power despite the former president’s campaign failures and personal political battles in the states. Countless ballots were recounted and they lost five dozen court challenges in each state. All states support Biden's victory.

State election officials often say that there is no obvious voter fraud, which, as Trump claimed today, would change the outcome in his favor.

If Meadows testifies in court, the committee said it would ask him questions about the large number of documents he provided.

According to the Associated Press, on Monday, Meadows said through his lawyer that the committee's referral was unwise, unfair and illegal.

In an email on November 7, 2020, the committee stated that just days after Trump lost the election, Meadows discussed an effort to make Trump lose support for the appointment of state legislators in each state. The voters of Lampe, not the pro-Biden voters chosen by most voters.

In a text message with an unidentified senator, Meadows discussed Trump’s erroneous view that the then Vice President Mike Pence had the right to overturn the electoral college’s vote count because the legislators made a statement on January 6. The number of votes from each state is officially certified. Pence caused Trump's anger. He refused to reach the electoral college vote. Biden won a 306-232 deposit, and the same Earl Trump won in 2016.

The day before the riots, Meadows stated that the National Guard would "protect pro-Trump people" in the Capitol. Other emails involved riots in the Capitol, where supporters of Trump shut down the electoral college voting for several hours before Biden was finally declared the winner in the early hours of January 7.

The committee also stated that it wanted to ask Meadows about what he said in the new book "The Chief of the Chief" about his time with Trump in the White House.

"Mr. Meadows has indicated that he is willing to talk about issues related to the select committee investigation on various media platforms-seems to be anywhere, except for the select committee," the group wrote.

In turn, Meadows has sued the committee and asked the court to rescind the two subpoenas that he described as "too broad and overburdened."

The team interviewed nearly 300 witnesses and legislators who were in some way related to riots or competition for election results. The committee said it is planning to hold a series of hearings early next year to announce the results of many of its investigations.

Among the more than 600 people accused in the riots, some were sentenced to months of imprisonment or, in more serious cases, more than four years in prison. These people usually brag about being in the Capitol on social media accounts. Inside. But most of the criminal charges have not yet been sentenced.

Some of the information in this report comes from the Associated Press and Reuters.