WASHINGTON, March 13: The US House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is hot on the money trails of the insurrection. A money trail easily corroborates conspiracy charge.

The attack on the Capitol was allegedly plotted with a view to blocking the certification of President-elect Joe Biden at the instance of the then President Donald Trump who raised the bogey of electoral rigging by the Democrats.

The committee is probing all the events that preceded the deadly insurrection, including Trump's address to his supporters. However, providing proof of motive of attack will be a task. Since the committee has no criminal jurisdiction, it has to file papers at the Justice Department, which does not take political decisions. Not even the commmitte for that matter.

A subpoena against Salesforce, San Francisco-based Republican National Committee (RNC) vendor, recently, that became public, indicates the panel is looking into the former President asking for donations after he lost his reelection. Kimberly Guilfoyle who spoke in support of Trump at the Save America rally on that fateful day was also summoned. She had innocently claimed that she raised $3 million for the rally, in order to take credit.

Did Trump launch a fresh fund raising campaign to fight what he called election result fraud. As the committee is heading to provide proof of financial motive of the participants of the events, a criminal conspiracy on the part of the fund raisers unravels itself, fulfilling a legal requirement.

Meanwhile, Enrique Tarrio, former chairman of the US right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys was arrested last Tuesday in Miami, Florida, for plotting the January 6 attack on the Capitol with a view to blocking the certification of President-elect Joe Biden. He "led the advance planning and remained in contact with other members of the Proud Boys during their breach of the Capitol," said the Justice Department.

Tarrio is not accused of participating in the attack, but "conspired to corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, the certification of the Electoral College vote," it said. In fact, he was not in the Capital and was not part of the insurrection as he was barred from entering Washington in a plea deal vis-a-vis an earlier case.

A total of 775 people have been arrested in connection with the Jan 6 events. Leaders of Proud Boys, Texas Three Percenters. and Oath Keepers, another extremist group, are among them.