Between January 5 and 6, 2021, the date of the assault on the capitol, Trump was following the altercations on the conservative network Fox News and, instead of listening to his advisers and mobilizing law enforcement, he called his lawyer, Rudy Giulani, and senators who were on the scene to push them to delay the certification of election results.
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Meanwhile, he had conversations with his bodyguards, messages that were deleted and has plunged his secret service into a national scandal.
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The committee investigating the assault on the Capitol expected to have a series of text messages from Secret Service agents that they could have offered more details about the performance of the former president, but he has only received one.
The rest were deleted as part of a previously planned system migration and according to the media cannot be recovered.
This Thursday it has become known that the Department of Homeland Security launched a criminal investigation into that elimination and has asked the Secret Service to cease theirs so that there is no interference.
Previous hearings had served to determine links between the former president and his circle with supremacist groups that led the protest and to influence that Trump’s closest entourage repeatedly stressed to him that his theory of election theft was unfounded.
The committee criticizes Trump for deliberate passivity
For the committee, all the information analyzed provides a clear example of abandonment of power by the former president, who had published a tweet to criticize the fact that his vice president, Mike Pence, refused to annul the elections, and two to ask the protesters to They were peaceful and respected the law.
Trump refused to use the word peace and it was his daughter who convinced him to use that other formula.
The president was then in the White House, having failed to convince his drivers to take him to the Capitol, as a key witness in this political investigation, Cassidy Hutchinson, assistant to the then presidential chief of staff, recounted on June 28. Mark Meadows.
If he had appeared, according to a security agent, it would have ceased to be a public demonstration to become “something else.”
“I don’t know if you want to use the word insurrection, coup or whatever,” he told the committee.
The two main witnesses were this Thursday Matthew Pottinger, assistant to the national security adviser in the Trump government, and the then White House deputy spokeswoman, Sarah Matthews, who resigned after the assault, considering it “indefensible”.
If Trump had wanted to quickly address the nation, according to Matthews, he could have done so in less than a minute.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING*
*With information from EFE
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