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Legal experts say that the House January 6 Committee’s criminal referrals<\/a> of former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department for his involvement in the 2021 Capitol protests are “theater” and will likely be ignored by the DOJ, and they could possibly have a counterproductive effect should the DOJ decide to bring charges.<\/p>\n

The Jan. 6 panel held what is expected to be their final meeting Monday and voted unanimously to issue criminal referrals to the DOJ on Trump for obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the federal government, making a false statement, and inciting, assisting or aiding and comforting an insurrection.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s unprecedented criminal referral<\/a> holds no official legal weight, and a final determination in whether to pursue the charges will be up to Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, called the referrals “theater” since they don\u2019t have any legal binding. He believes the DOJ will “ignore” the referrals for that reason and because they could be a prosecutorial liability in the DOJ\u2019s ongoing probe into Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TRUMP REFERRED TO DOJ FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION BY JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“In effect, it is theater because there it doesn’t have any binding effect,” McCarthy\u00a0said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I think the Justice Department will ignore it.”<\/p>\n

“The concern that the Justice Department has, or at least should have, is that they [the criminal referrals] can have the counterproductive effect of undermining whatever prosecution, if any, that the Justice Department decides to bring because they give former President Trump the ability to make the claim, if he’s charged, that the charges are the result of political pressure rather than evidence,” McCarthy added.<\/p>\n

“Even if they brought criminal charges that were based solely on evidence that they believed was reliable, they would still have to combat an argument in the trial that a heavily dominated Democratic committee induced the Democratic Justice Department to bring criminal charges in order to sideline the sitting Democratic president\u2019s likely rival in the 2024 election, which is not a position to want to be in as a prosecutor,” McCarthy said.<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, another former prosecutor and professor at Georgetown University Law School, said Monday\u2019s business meeting that was heavily choreographed “missed the mark” in an effort to present a case that Trump should be criminally charged.<\/p>\n

MIKE PENCE SAYS DOJ SHOULDN’T BRING CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP AFTER JAN. 6 HEARINGS CONCLUDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The failure of the committee to offer any new and direct evidence of criminal conduct was telling,” Turley said. “The fact is that the [January] 6 Committee failed to change many minds largely because of what was on display in the final public meeting. It was the same highly scripted, one-sided account repeated mantra-like for months.”<\/p>\n

“There is justifiable anger over these accounts, but this hearing was billed as presenting the case for criminal charges. It missed that mark by a considerable measure,” Turley added.<\/p>\n

TOP 5 MOMENTS FROM LATEST JAN. 6 HEARING BEFORE MIDTERM ELECTIONS INCLUDE TRUMP SUBPOENA, NEW VIDEO<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Turley also criticized the mainstream media coverage of the committee\u2019s activity, saying that coverage “downplayed the flaring failure” of the committee to produce promised “bombshell evidence of a criminal conspiracy by Trump.”<\/p>\n

“Members like Rep. Adam Schiff \u2026 repeatedly promised<\/a> that the next hearing would reveal such direct evidence only to have the same rehashing of the prior claims for prosecution.”<\/p>\n

The committee’s final report of its findings will be released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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