Supporters of the former American President attacked the headquarters of Congress in Washington in January 2021 after the election of Joe Biden. Trump is suspected of having called for an uprising.
The US House of Inquiry into the Storming of the Capitol on Monday (December 19) recommended criminal charges be filed against former President Donald Trump on charges including inciting insurrection and conspiracy against the US state.
The nine members of the commission — seven Democrats and two Republicans — unanimously voted in favor of those recommendations at a final public live meeting at the end of their 18-month investigation, in which they interviewed a thousand people and a mountain of documents, and held high-profile hearings.
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“The commission has gathered significant evidence that President Trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as envisioned by our Constitution,” House Representative Jamie Raskin said shortly before a vote. “We believe the evidence gathered during our investigation warrants recommending criminal prosecution against Donald Trump,” he added.
Five dead in connection with the attack
On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Trump, who – wrongly – like him, claimed the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him by Joe Biden, violently attacked Congressional headquarters in Washington to stop the results from being certified , and trembled American Democracy.
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“Casting a ballot in the United States is an act of faith and hope,” Democrat Bennie Thompson, chairman of the commission, said Monday. “That trust in our system is the foundation of American democracy. When trust is broken, so is our democracy. Donald Trump broke that trust. He lost the 2020 election and knew it, but he chose to try to stay in power,” he added.
Number two on the commission, Republican Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s pet peeve, said his actions showed he was “unfit” to hold new public office. “Anyone who behaves like this during this time can never again hold a position of power in this country,” she said.
Symbolic voting
The four charges recommended by the elected investigators are: incitement to insurrection, conspiracy against the American state, obstruction of an official process (confirmation of a presidential election) and false testimony. These grounds can result in prison terms and a ban from all public office, as the former president has announced that he will rejoin the White House race in 2024.
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The commission’s vote is largely symbolic, as its members cannot impeach the ex-real estate magnate themselves. It will be up to the Justice Department, which has appointed a special prosecutor to independently investigate Donald Trump, whether or not to indict him. At least five people have died in connection with the attack and hundreds have been charged in connection with the violence.
“Proofs”
“I think there is evidence that Donald Trump committed criminal offenses in his efforts to overturn the election,” Democrat-elect Adam Schiff, a member of the commission, told CNN on Sunday. In the run-up to the hearing, Donald Trump had already railed against the Commission’s forthcoming recommendation on his “Truth Social” platform – and in his usual style referred to its members as “social cases and thugs”.
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Donald Trump notably defended his January 6, 2021 speech and other actions that day as “moderate and full of love.” At the time, he had called on his followers to “fight like the devils,” but without expressly asking them to march into the Capitol.
pressures
The elected officials responsible for investigating the former president’s actions and gestures before and during January 6, 2021 sought to show that Donald Trump had attempted to retain power when he knew he was being beaten. Donald Trump was “at the center” of a “coup attempt,” commission chief Bennie Thompson said earlier. The commission kept saying there was no way the Republican could not know he lost the election to Joe Biden.
His Attorney General, a number of advisers, and even his own daughter Ivanka… Several members of Donald Trump’s close guard testified on camera that they did not believe his theories of “election fraud.” Donald Trump is specifically accused of pressuring his Vice President Mike Pence and election officials, particularly in Georgia and Arizona, to try to void the presidential election. A former White House staffer, Cassidy Hutchinson, also said the president was aware that in the crowd that had gathered just outside the White House, some protesters were armed and potentially dangerous.