The US parliamentary commission that analyzes the role of donald trump in the assault on Capitol of January 6, 2021 voted unanimously on Thursday to summon the former president to appear before its members, as he is “obliged to answer for his actions.”
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donald trump “He is the person at the center of the story of what happened on January 6. So we want to hear from him,” he said. bennie thompson during a public hearing. “He has to be held accountable. He has to answer for his actions,” she added.
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The commission plans to “do everything possible to tell the fullest story possible and provide recommendations to help ensure that nothing like January 6 happens again in the future,” he continued.
The mission of the panel, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, is to shed light on the president’s behavior before, during and after the attack on Capitol Hill, which shocked the entire world.
For his part, the former president of the United States, donald trumpdescribed on Thursday as a “fiasco” a summons issued by the congressional commission.
“Why didn’t the Deselection Commission ask me to testify months ago?” Trump said on his Truth Social platform after lawmakers investigating the Capitol assault decided to subpoena him to testify. “It has only served to further divide our country,” he added.
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The then US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and his inner circle planned months before the 2020 elections to reject the results and declare their own victory, the legislative committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In the ninth public hearing of the House of Representatives committee, lawmakers on Thursday presented evidence, such as recorded testimony from former Trump officials and advisers, as well as emails, to prove that the decision to try to overturn the results of the elections of November 2020 was premeditated.
In those elections, the Democrat Joe Biden He defeated the then Republican president, who refused to recognize the results, claiming without providing evidence that his opponent had committed fraud.
“Trump had a premeditated plan to declare that the elections were fraudulent and stolen even before knowing the results” of the elections, said the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney during the hearing in Washington.
Between the night of November 4 and the early morning of November 5, 2020, Trump declared his victory in the presidential election, despite the fact that the counting of votes had not yet been completed, many of which were deposited by mail due to the pandemic. .
Trump had a premeditated plan to declare the election rigged and stolen even before the results were known.
The committee’s lawmakers claimed that this move had been planned well in advance and led to a series of unfounded allegations of electoral fraud by Trump and his supporters that culminated in the storming of the Capitol by a mob of supporters of the then president to prevent Biden’s victory from being ratified.
According to emails obtained by the committee, on October 31, days before the election, Tom Fitton, a Trump political adviser, sent his team a draft of a speech for the then president declaring victory and rejecting the votes. by mail.
Statements from Steve Bannon and Roger Stonetwo political consultants close to the now former president, where they detail the plan to revoke the elections and question the electoral results to generate instability.
“He’s going to declare victory, that doesn’t mean he’s the winner, but he’s going to say it and if Biden is winning, Trump is going to do something very crazy,” Bannon said at a meeting with partners in China on Oct. 3, 2020, according to an audio recording presented at the hearing.
Cheney explained that when the committee finishes its investigations, which began more than a year ago, it could send “a series of criminal recommendations to the Department of Justice.”
“Our nation cannot just punish the foot soldiers who stormed the Capitol. Those who plotted to overturn the election and brought us to the point of violence must also be held accountable,” the Republican lawmaker said.
After Thursday’s session, the committee could announce the conclusion of its work or announce a new hearing, and is expected to present a final report later this year.
Today’s hearing was held a few weeks before there are legislative elections in the US, on November 8. On January 6, 2021, some 10,000 people, most of them Trump supporters, demonstrated in front of the Capitol and about 800 stormed the building while Biden’s electoral victory was ratified.
There were 5 dead and about 140 wounded officers. The creation of the committee was promoted by the Democratic Party and two of its members are Republicans: Cheney, who serves as vice president, and Adam Kinzinger.
AFP
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