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Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin used the details in the executive summary provided by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack to highlight the ways in which the Fulton County, Georgia special grand jury could be used against Donald Trump too.

Thus far, the Jan. 6 committee revealed that Trump was well-aware that the Georgia election had been lost and he pushed officials to commit voter fraud when he lashed out at Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who tried to provide Trump a link to the audit so he could see the information.

An FBI informant is coming forward as the public waits for the full report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. The information reveals that the FBI knew that far-right militia groups saw Trump's call to Washington as a call to arms, NBC News reported.

On Dec. 19, 2020, former President Donald Trump took to Twitter to tell his supporters they were needed in Washington on Jan. 6 as Congress was set to certify the election. Trump encouraged them that it would be “wild.”

The House Select Committee Investigating the January 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overthrow the election will address the intelligence failures in the full report, committee member Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said on Tuesday.

The 160-page executive summary released Monday did mention some of the information that was reported ahead of Jan. 6 to the FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security and even the U.S. Marshals. However, the summary didn't detail what was uncovered when researching information about the failures to deliver that information to the U.S. Capitol.

If there's one thing that motivates Donald Trump it's "a big fat bag of money," said biographer Tim O'Brien told a panel of analysts discussing the Ways and Means Committee debating whether to release the ex-president's taxes.

Trump has spent the better part of six years claiming that because he was under audit he couldn't turn over any information about his taxes. It's false. There's no reason any person is prevented from doing anything with their taxes during an audit.

The House Ways and Means Committee was set to meet Tuesday to vote on whether to release Donald Trump's taxes to the public after years of the former president refusing to release them.

But as officials began the hearing and the public and press were seated and ready to watch the proceeding, the members announced that they were kicking people out of the committee room.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election referred Donald trump for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department on Monday. But according to Trump, he's still winning.

Writing for the Washington Post, Aaron Blake couldn't help but ridicule the claim that Trump was "stronger" because of the charges. Taking to his personal social media site, Trump released a statement Monday evening saying that the criminal referrals made him stronger. He then repeated the false claim that he deployed 20,000 troops that day. There was no order, the Associated Press fact-checked.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is still five votes short of leading the House, but he's already threatening his GOP colleagues.

Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, McCarthy pledged that no Republican senator that signs off on the budget would have their bills brought before the House.

Donald Trump is facing several major legal problems that are all coming to a head at once. At the Justice Department, Trump is facing possible charges around the Jan. 6 attack and around the documents he stole from the White House upon leaving office. There's also a decision by the special grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, civil charges around his business in New York and a slew of other problems. Meanwhile, he's become the butt of jokes after releasing "Trump trading cards" for $99 each.

Speaking to the New York Times, Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) made it clear that the GOP's party leader is slipping further and further into political impotence.

Former Justice Department official Mary McCord noted that in her quick review of the 160-page executive summary released by the House Select Committee on Monday, she didn't see much about who funded the Jan. 6 attack, which was supposed to be something the committee looked into.

The full report will be released on Wednesday and it is expected to be thousands of pages long, with transcripts from each deposition and videos that spanned the year-and-a-half effort by the lawmakers. There were several omissions in the summary that led analysts and legal experts to ask questions. But McCord anticipates newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith will focus on that piece in his probe.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, who also served as a prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller, said that it's likely Donald Trump will be prosecuted. The question is whether it will be for one or both of his legal woes.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow brought up both of Trump's cases during a Monday special following the final meeting of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

In the MSNBC special coverage of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, host Rachel Maddow noted that the members presented their case in a way that makes it easy for the Justice Department to take it straight to a judge.

In fact, they've done it before, and it worked out in their favor.

Legal experts took to social media on Monday after the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots released the executive summary of its final report.

Vice reporter Tess Owen observed that the summary has nothing in it about the pipe bombs set at the RNC and DNC on Jan. 6, which is something that the FBI has been unable to solve. While it isn't the responsibility of the Jan. 6 committee to solve this crime, it was such a significant piece of the puzzle allies agreed it was unusual not to mention it.