He is interested in the plan to seize voting machines and replace elected Electoral College representatives in critical states with like-minded ones.
More than 20 million people are hooked on the public hearings of the January 6 Committee, which is investigating the assault on Capitol Hill that ended Donald Trump’s presidency. Among them, the high officials of the Department of Justice, who have asked the committee for evidence that points to the former president.
Already last April, the Department of Justice demanded from the committee the transcripts of all the interviews it has done with more than a hundred witnesses, something that was denied because it was considered too broad. Now the attorney general’s office appears to have sharpened its focus. According to committee chairman Bennie Thompson, he is interested in the plan to seize voting machines and replace elected Electoral College representatives in critical states with others sympathetic to Trump.
At Tuesday’s hearing, the committee drafted a tweet drafted at the White House but never published that shows the then-president anticipated launching protesters on Capitol Hill. It was not a demonstration that got out of hand, but a premeditated act that he considered his last chance to cling to power. Kind of like pressing the nuclear button.
It was the only option left to him after a hectic six-hour meeting in the Oval Office that some witnesses have described as “the most unhinged of his entire presidency.” Screams could be heard from outside. In it, the White House lawyers tried to convince him and his acolytes, including the lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, that there was no evidence to justify the executive order that he had drafted. With it, he ordered the confiscation of the electoral machines of the critical states that did not favor him, arguing that they had been used to commit fraud.
At the end of it, after midnight, the president reluctantly agreed to discard it. That morning, at 2:44 am, he launched a tweet calling his followers to a large demonstration in Washington for the day Congress would certify the election results. «Be there. Be wild» (Come. It will be wild).
For some, that sequence demonstrates the guilt of the president, who could still be tried if the Prosecutor’s Office considers that there is sufficiently conclusive evidence. For all of them, it would be the only way to abort a new potential attempt to stand for election again, because he would disqualify him from holding office again if he were found guilty. Perhaps that is why rumors are increasing that the tycoon will not wait for the November legislative elections to pass, as is the tradition, because the more advanced his campaign is, the more problematic it will be to interrupt it in the face of his followers.
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