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 the Secret Service 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.
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*With information from EFE
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