Former US President Donald Trump and his allies participated in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, the legislative committee investigating the attack on the Capitol by followers of the former ruler says in documents filed Wednesday with the court.
“The committee … has a good-faith basis for concluding that the former president and members of his campaign were involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the panelists state in their summary.
The comment does not contain final conclusions as the investigation continues, but it is considered the broadest and most damning pronouncement on the behavior of Trump, who tried to cling to power after losing the election to Joe Biden.
A Trump ally, attorney John Eastman, wrote a memo in which he explained how Vice President Mike Pence could prevent congressmen from certifying Biden’s victory in the January 6, 2021, legislative session. follow the guidance.
In the document released Wednesday night, the committee said Eastman’s refusal to testify to congressmen alleging attorney-client privilege does not apply because he and others, including Trump, “may have participated in criminal acts and/or fraudulent” in their attempts to overturn the election.
Lawmakers said the evidence provides “a good faith basis for concluding that President Trump violated the law criminalizing “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States or defraud” the country.
On January 6, 2021, after an incendiary speech by Trump in which he repeated his false version of electoral fraud and urged the crowd gathered in the nation’s capital to “fight”, thousands of protesters made their way to the Capitol and entered the congressional headquarters at dawn. force, with scenes of violence and chaos.
Trump faced two political trials, the second motivated by the riot on Capitol Hill, but in both cases he was acquitted by the then Republican-majority Senate.
The former president still dominates the Republican Party and makes frequent comments in which he flirts with the idea of seeking a second term in 2024.
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