The assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was the ” culmination of a coup attempt judged Thursday, June 9 an American parliamentary commission of inquiry. The latter placed Donald Trump at the center of a ” conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power in a day of political violence rare in the United States, under the ” encouragement from the Republican.
A raging crowd in the halls of the United States Congress, elected officials crawling on the ground with gas masks… The demonstrators stormed the seat of the Parliament after ” encouragement of the former president, said Bennie Thompson, the head of the so-called January 6 », at the start of a series of hearings supposed to prove the existence of a deliberate campaign to reverse the result of the 2020 presidentialwon by Joe Biden.
” January 6 was the culmination of a coup attemptsaid Bennie Thompson. Donald Trump was at the center of this plot. »
Since almost a year, this group of elected officials – seven Democrats and two Republicans – heard more than 1,000 witnesses including two children of the former president and peeled 140,000 documents. This is to shed light on the specific acts and gestures of Donald Trump before, during and after this event which shook American democracy.
” President Trump summoned the crowd, assembled the crowd and lit the fuse for this attack », asserted Liz Cheneyone of the few elected Republicans who agreed to sit on this commission.
Never-before-seen videos with calls to ” hang »Mike Pence
To support its conclusions, the commission of the ” January 6 broadcast unpublished images of the violence of this cold winter day during which thousands of supporters of Donald Trump had gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the 2020 election, which had seen the former lose. real estate magnate.
These videos show crowds attacking the headquarters of Congress, calling for ” hang Vice President Mike Pence, and a protester reading Donald Trump tweets through a megaphone.
” It was in no way a sightseeing visit to the Capitol “Launched Bennie Thompson in allusion to those among the Republicans who brandished this argument.
The images were broadcast live by many news channels but shunned by the most conservative media. This in yet another illustration of the deep political fault line dividing the United States.
” Biggest movement in history “, according to Donald Trump
Because a year and a half after the assault on the Capitol, millions of supporters of Donald Trump remain firmly convinced that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. And this despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
The main interested party, Donald Trump, once again praised this day Thursday, June 9, assuring that the assault on the Capitol was the “ greatest movement in history to make America great again “.
Republicans rejecting the commission “ the least legit »
The parliamentary committee considers its work essential to ensure that one of the darkest episodes in American history is never repeated, despite very real threats. ” Our democracy is still in danger. The plot to counter the will of the people is not over “, alerted Bennie Thompson.
The parliamentary inquiry therefore faces a major challenge, that of presenting a story and evidence capable of capturing the attention of the general public and convincing it of the importance of its revelations.
But the majority of Republicans reject its work, the leader of the conservatives in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, denouncing the commission “ the most political and least legitimate in the history of the United States “.
His party has already promised to bury the work of this commission if it were to take control of the Chamber during the mid-term legislative elections in November.
The elected conservative Liz Cheney, who has become the former president’s pet peeve for having been one of the rare voices of the Grand Old Party to openly dare to criticize him, sent a message to his Republican colleagues on Thursday evening: ” The day will come when Donald Trump leaves, but your dishonor will remain “.
(With AFP)