Mark Meadows is accused of hindering the Congress survey on the attack on January 6 in Washington by supporters of the former US president.
Le Monde with AFP
The pressure rides in the entourage of Donald Trump: from the American elected officials recommended criminal prosecution on the former Country Chief of Republican billionaire, Mark Meadows, who refuses to cooperate in their investigation of the ‘Assault of the Capitol.
This parliamentary committee, set up to understand the precise role of the former president and his entourage in the attack of the US Congress on January 6, 2021, voted unanimously in favor of prosecution. “Chief of Staff” by Donald Trump.
Mark Meadows, one of the nearest advisers of the tempic president at the moment when thousands of his partisans had invaded the Capitol to try to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, is at the heart of all attentions. The 62-year-old man has provided thousands of pages of official documents, e-mails and SMS to investigators, but refuses at allocations to testify to this commission. Mark Meadows risks prosecutions, on the grounds that he tries, by his silence, “to hinder a congress investigation”.
“The SMS and emails of Mark Meadows reveal his deep involvement in the preparation of the attack on January 6”, “said Monday night the elected Jamie Raskin.
The final decision returns to the Ministry of Justice
In the vote, Monday, the Democratic Representative Liz Cheney unveiled messages sent on January 6 to Mr. Meadows by Donald Trump Jr, the Son of the President, and by personalities of the Conservative Fox News, the exhortant To ask the President to speak to bring back his followers, who then stormed the congress.
This commission recommends prosecution “because he did not want to answer what he knows about a brutal attack of our democracy,” said Bennie Thompson, the Democratic President of the Special Commission.
The recommendation of these nine elected officials should be adopted, from Tuesday, to the House of Representatives before being forwarded to the Ministry of Justice. It is up to him that the final decision to charge Mark Meadows.
This old senior head of the White House, renowned very discreet, risks prison. His lawyer had previously denounced an “unjust” and “foolish” process and has already begun prosecutions against the so-called “January 6” Commission, date of the Capitol’s assault.
“Witness Hunting”
This group of elected multiplies injunctions to appear and threats of charges in the entourage of Donald Trump. The sulphurous Steve Bannon, one of the artisans of Trump’s victory in 2016, who also snubbed the commission of inquiry, has already been charged for the same reason. Donald Trump, anxious to rule out this threat, orders his faithful to tighten the ranks.
The elected Democrat and member of the Commission Adam Schiff warned in a statement that if other witnesses plan to respond to the convocations of the Special Commission, they could also “risk prison”.
This group of elected advance forced, with the objective of publishing their conclusions before the mid-term elections of November 2022, during which the Republicans could resume control of the House and burying his work. Because the partisans of the former US president are on the contrary to minimize this attack, calling the parliamentary survey of “witch hunting”, one of the favorite expressions of Donald Trump.
In parallel with these battles on the Capitol Hill, the Commission so-called “January 6” has grown last week, when a court of appeal felt that Donald Trump could not invoke presidential privileges To block the transmission to the internal communications survey at the White House. There are still a few days left to the former president to address the Supreme Court.