Washington DC - The January 6 committee concluded in a devastating final report that former President Donald Trump intentionally spread false claims about the 2020 election and provoked a mob of his supporters to attack the US Capitol.

The long-anticipated, 845-page eight-chapter report from the House select committee probing the January 6, 2021, insurrection provides a road map for potential criminal charges against Trump and others.

Written in a narrative style, the document elaborates on the story the committee laid out in its televised hearings earlier this year.

The committee voted Monday to refer its findings to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Among them are four possible federal charges against Trump, including assisting, aiding or comforting those involved in an insurrection.

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The Justice Department is conducting its own investigation into the January 6 attack, which left five people dead.

The report begins with the weeks leading up to the election and evidence the committee collected that Trump intended to declare victory on election night regardless of what the results showed.

It traces Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the election results, detailing court cases, appeals to state lawmakers to throw out vote tallies and a pressure campaign on Department of Justice officials to intervene and declare, without evidence, that the election was stolen.

Like the committee's series of hearings, the report concludes with the 187 minutes Trump sat in a White House dining room on January 6, 2021, watching as a mob shattered windows and rampaged through the Capitol while ignoring his family, staff, and fellow Republicans, who were all urging him to intervene.

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"Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and, as I saw it, opening the door to those in our country whose hatred and bigotry threaten equality and justice for all Americans," Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, wrote in the report's foreword.

The 18-month investigation collected more than 1,000 depositions, including from many of Trump's top aides, Cabinet officials, and family members.

Thompson said Monday that the bulk of the nonsensitive material compiled by the panel will become public before the end of the year. Thompson has not said how many documents will be released or what will be deemed sensitive.

The report, which likely marks the final act of the bipartisan committee, includes a list of 11 recommendations, including changes to Capitol Police oversight, new protections for election workers, and officially declaring the riot an insurrection so those who participated would be barred from holding office in the future under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

The document also includes four appendices on topics including the funding behind Trump's January 6 rally and the intelligence failures that allowed the attack to occur.

Republicans, who take control of the House on January 3, have said they don't plan to continue the committee's work. In fact, GOB House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the front-runner to become speaker next year, said his party may investigate the workings of the January 6 committee itself.

That left the January 6 panel racing to make its report and potentially millions of pages of underlying evidence public in less than two weeks.