The committee that investigated Donald Trump’s role in the 2021 attack on the Capitol concluded that the former US president was criminally involved in a “multifaceted conspiracy” to overturn the presidential results.
An 814-page report, released Thursday, concludes an 18-month investigation into the former leader and the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, claiming that Trump failed to act to prevent supporters from attacking the president’s home. United States Congress.
The report is the result of interviews with more than a thousand witnesses, ten hearings and millions of pages of documents.
Witnesses, from Trump’s closest advisers, to law enforcement officials and some protesters, detailed the actions of the former US leader in the weeks leading up to the insurrection, and how the campaign he led to try to reverse the electoral defeat directly influenced the events. of January 6. .
The central cause was “one man”: Trump, the nine-member panel concluded, stressing that the insurrection seriously threatened democracy and “put the lives of US lawmakers at risk.”
In the report’s foreword, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote that the findings should be a “call to all Americans” to carefully protect democracy.
The eight chapters of the document also described the many aspects of the plan devised by Trump and his advisers to try to overturn the victory of President Joe Biden.
The lawmakers also spoke of the pressure being put on states, federal authorities, legislators and former Vice President Mike Pence to break the law.
Trump’s repeated and false claims about widespread voter fraud rubbed off on supporters, the committee noted, noting that Trump did little to stop them as they resorted to violence and stormed the Capitol.
The document was released at a time when Donald Trump announced that he would run for the US presidency again and at the same time that he faces several federal investigations, including his role in this insurrection and the presence of confidential documents in a property of his property. in Florida.
This week is particularly difficult for the former leader, as a House committee must release tax returns from Trump, who has tried to keep the data private for years.
On Monday, the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans officially turned the investigation over to the Justice Department, recommending that it investigate the former president on four counts: incitement to insurrection, conspiracy to commit fraud, obstruction of an act of Congress and allegations of false statements. .
Trump sought to discredit the report, calling committee members “thugs and scoundrels” while continuing to falsely question the 2020 defeat.
On January 6, 2021, summoned by Donald Trump, thousands of Americans headed to Washington to protest the result of the presidential election, which gave victory to Joe Biden.
After making their way through police, injuring many officers, protesters stormed the Capitol and disrupted Biden’s victory certification, echoing Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of widespread voter fraud and inciting lawmakers in the building to hide or flee to protect their lives.
Five people, agents and attackers, died as a result of the invasion.
Source: TSF
