Jan. 6 panel says evidence shows Trump broke laws trying to overturn election The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill says investigators have reason to believe former President Donald Trump and his associates broke multiple laws in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In a brief filed Wednesday in response to a lawsuit brought by John Eastman, a Trump-linked conservative lawyer, the committee talks of evidence showing that Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, illegally impeding Congress's counting of electoral votes, and lying to the public. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/jan-6-panel-says-evidence-shows-trump-broke-laws-trying-to-overturn-election