Capitol Hill, Trump in the storm: “Glued to the TV watching the assault”

Attack on Capitol Hill, the Commission: “Trump betrayed his oath to the Constitution, he did not defend the country, abdicating his role”

Still troubles for the former US president Donal Trump. In the assault on Capitol Hill “he did not perform his duty”, he must therefore be held “legally responsible”: this is what they said during a hearing. MPs who have been investigating the attack for a year.

The former Republican president opened the doors “to disorder and corruption,” he said Bennie Thompsonwho chairs the House of Representatives committee charged with these investigations.

All those responsible, even to the White Housethey will have to “answer for their actions before the courts”, added the democratic parliamentarian, “It will take serious consequencesotherwise I fear that our democracy will not recover “.

Committee members completed a series of high-profile hearings yesterday, dedicating two and a half hours to the day of January 6, 2021 lived “minute by minute” by Donald Trump. They accused him of following, for three hours, the wave of violence from its supporters without reactingin “violation of his duty as commander in chief”.

Assault on Capitol Hill, the accusations against Trump and the reconstruction of the day of January 6

Yet it was he who summoned them to Washingtonthe day MPs were supposed to certify the victory of his Democratic rival Joe Biden in presidential elections. Around noon, in a fiery speech in the heart of the capital, he asked them to “fight like devils“against the alleged”serious election fraud“.

Then he went back to White House, as the mob launched an assault on the temple of American democracy. Entrenched in the dining room, Donald Trump followed the attack on television “while his close advisors and family members begged him to intervene,” said the Democratic deputy Elaine Luria.

In a video clip of his deposition, the former legal advisor of the Pat Cipollone White House he confirmed that he had told him “very clearly” that he had to make an “immediate and clear public statement inviting people to leave the Capitol”. But “the President Trump he refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power, “he said Elaine Luria.

According to her, at 14.24, the head of state has sent a tweet for cretate its vice president Mike Pence for not wanting to block the certification of the election results, fueling the complaints of the ‘rioters’. Over the next two hours, he sent two more messages, simply inviting the crowd to “stay in peace”.

Assault on Capitol Hill, the final report is expected by the fall

Then the deputy White House spokesperson Sarah Matthews reported that she accepted the term minimalist only after the intervention of her daughter Ivanka. And when, finally, he shot a video to invite his supporters to “go home”, she did not respect the text written by his advisors. “I know your pain”, she chose to say, presenting herself again as the victim of a “stolen” election. And never, during those 187 minutes, did she pick up the phone to “give orders or offer help” to the police or the military, did she observe. Elaine Luriashowing the telephone records of the presidency.

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