The commission of inquiry of the House of Representatives presented its first conclusions on Thursday on the attack of January 6, 2021. Relnsmitted live on several television channels, this public hearing highlighted the responsibility of the former American president.
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A vital pedagogy exercise for American democracy began on Thursday, June 9, in a Congress hall. It was also an exceptional television moment, whose sobriety of the actors only strengthened the intensity. The House of Representatives’ commission of inquiry held a first public hearing in order to go up the thread of events that led to the attack on January 6, 2021 against the Capitol, by the supporters of Donald Trump. This dark day was “the culmination of an attempted coup,” summed up the Democrat Bennie Thompson (Mississippi), president of the commission.
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Sitting under a giant screen, the nine members of the Commission sat in a solemn atmosphere, in front of a flowerbed fed on photographers. The hearing was carefully settled, led by Bennie Thompson and the vice-president of the Commission, Republican Liz Cheney (Wyoming). “On January 6 and the lies that led to the insurrection endangered two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy,” said Bennie Thomson, to frame the stake of the moment. But it was above all Liz Cheney who printed his mark on the hearing. Having become a plague in the Republican Party, hated by Donald Trump, she has been committed for months in a crusade to establish the truth about January 6, in the company of the other elected official of her party within the Commission, Adam Kinzinger (Illinois). For the daughter of the former vice-president Dick Cheney, it is the decisive fight of his political life, which does not allow weakness or half-measure.
Speaking in a tense, relentless, but always controlled voice, Liz Cheney unrolled a real indictment against the former leader. “President Trump summoned the crowd, gathered the crowd and lit the wick of this attack,” she said. “In many months, she continued, Donald Trump supervised and coordinated a sophisticated plan in seven parts to overthrow the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power.” The Commission, whose work will continue until ‘At the start of the school year, has already reached the conclusion that the president was on the front line in the “coup attempt”. After January 6 and the failure of the project, his advisers would even have estimated that it “was too dangerous to be left alone,” added Liz Cheney, also indicating that members of the cabinet had then discussed a possible invocation of Article 25 of the Constitution, with a view to a dismissal of the president.
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