January 6 report expected to focus on Trump’s role and potential culpability

Final report by House select committee is scheduled for release in December - but fixation on Trump has opened a rift on the panel

The House January 6 select committee's final report into its investigation is expected to focus heavily on Donald Trump's involvement in the Capitol attack and his potential culpability, opening a rift on the panel weeks before its scheduled release in the middle of December.

The nature of the final report - alongside criminal referrals to the justice department - is expected to be the defining legacy of the investigation that brought into sharp relief Trump's efforts to stop the congressional certification of Joe Biden's election win and return to the White House for a second term.