The panel stated this in its final report accusing Trump of planning to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.
The congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has charged former US President Donald Trump with a "multi-part conspiracy" to thwart the will of the people and undermine democracy.
The panel stated this in its final report accusing Trump of planning to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.
Amounting to more than 814 pages, the seven Democrats and two Republicans documented their 18-month investigation into the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, Sky News reports.
They alleged that evidence "has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed.
"None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him."
The investigation focused on Mr. Trump's actions in the weeks leading up to the insurgency, as well as how his campaign to overturn his election defeat influenced those involved.
Between Joe Biden's election victory and its certification - on the day of the insurgency - Mr Trump or his inner circle "engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation, targeting either state legislators, or state or local election administrators, to overturn state election results," according to the report.
“Knowing that he and his supporters had lost dozens of election lawsuits, and despite his own senior advisers refuting his election fraud claims and urging him to concede his election loss, Donald Trump refused to accept the lawful result of the 2020 election," the report said.
"Rather than honour his constitutional obligation to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed', President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome."
The committee said Mr Trump had pressured states, federal officials, politicians and even Mike Pence, his vice president, in an effort to get what he wanted.
They claimed that his claims of voter fraud were widely disseminated on social media, adding to the distrust of government he fostered during his four years in office.
And he did little to stop his followers from taking matters into their own hands.
“The report found that 187 minutes went by between Mr Trump finishing a speech urging his supporters to march on the Capitol, and his first effort to get the rioters to disperse, which was done while reassuring them: "We love you, you're very special."
The report also detailed failings by law enforcement and intelligence agencies but it said these did not lead to the insurrection.
The committee's chairman, Bennie Thompson, said in a foreword to the report, "The president of the United States inciting a mob to march on the Capitol and impede the work of Congress is not a scenario our intelligence and law enforcement communities envisioned for this country."
The report recommends that Congress create "a mechanism for evaluating" whether to ban people mentioned in the report from future federal or state office.
The panel has also passed its investigation to the Justice Department, recommending the department investigate the former president on four crimes, including aiding an insurrection, but these referrals have no legal standing.
However, reacting to the report, Mr Trump described the report as "highly partisan" and a "witch hunt".
Writing on his Truth Social platform, he said: "The highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in DC, show the "Peacefully and Patrioticly" words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT!"