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Congress requires Trump to testify under oath about the assault on Capitol Hill


donald trump faces a request from the US Congress to testify under oath about his role in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and in the violent assault on Capitol Hill in January 2021.

The committee of January 6, established in the House of Representatives, to investigate these episodes, voted this Thursday unanimously – the nine deputies that make it up were in favor – seeking the interrogation of the former president and demanding documentary evidence of his participation.

It was, perhaps, the last session of this committee, which in its public appearances this summer and this week have shaken the US with an exhaustive review of the efforts of Trump and his allies to combat the will expressed at the polls for the Americans, with the tragic and embarrassing culmination of the assault on the seat of popular sovereignty by a mob of supporters of the former president.

Open and dramatic ending

It closed with an open and dramatic ending, with the vote for Trump to testify. “The committee has enough information to refer cases of a criminal nature for several people,” said Liz Cheney, one of the exceptions in the GOP who has fought Trump’s attempt to flip the election results. “But a key task remains. We must seek the testimony under oath of the central actor of what happened on January 6 », she defended before the vote. “We are obligated to do it, every American has the right to hear the answers from him.”

The reality is that Trump will go to great lengths to prevent such testimony. The requirement will probably give rise to another endless battle in court, which will be mixed and muddy with the rest of the causes that persecute the former president.

The injunction will likely lead to another drawn-out court battle.

The protagonists closest to the former president in his campaign to remain in office at all costs have taken that path. Among them, the one who was his national security adviser, Michael Flynn; a close adviser who was related to violent right-wing groups, Roger Stone; former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon; one of the lawyers who orchestrated his campaign against the results, John Eastman; or his chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

The vote on Trump’s injunction comes many months after the committee began its investigation. Why its members haven’t taken that step so far, despite the fact that the former president is the only one who could answer many of his questions, may be something strategic: pressuring Trump with the crowd of proofs, evidences and testimonials accumulated against him; but also because it occurs less than a month before the legislative elections in November, where the Democrats, the main promoters of this investigation, are trying to preserve their meager majorities in Congress.

This appearance also served to complete some aspects of the portrait of Trump’s campaign to stay in power. The deputies presented testimony from senior Trump officials and people close to him that made it clear that, for weeks before the 2020 election, the Republican candidate had planned declare the winner regardless of the result.


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