This national embarrassment must not be allowed to continue.

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6. The purpose of the House hearings about J6

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was NOT to determine the guilt or innocence of Trump regarding insurrection.

The purpose was to determine what legislative actions could be taken to prevent or at least minimize the chances of something like that happening again. They made recommendations, for example, on changes in the security system for the Capitol.

They examined how J6 was possible, again in order to prevent future events like that. In the course of their investigation, they uncovered evidence of potential crimes by Trump and several people around him. But determining guilt for those people was not in the power of Congress, so they referred what they had uncovered to DOJ so that DOJ could pursue investigations, criminal charges, and trials if necessary.