Seventeen months after the January 6 insurgency, nine members of the House of Representatives revealed their first conclusions on Thursday. They underline the preponderant role played by the former American president.
Le Monde with AFP
The Capitole assault was “the highlight of an attempted coup,” said Bennie Thompson, Head of the Parliamentary Investigation on the Capitole Assault, presenting, Thursday 9 June, his first conclusions on the role of Donald Trump in the attack of January 6, 2021. American democracy, which trembled during the attack on Congress by supporters of Donald Trump, is still “in danger”, alerted the ‘elected democrat of Mississippi.
That day, the demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the US Congress after the “encouragement” of the former president, assured Bennie Thompson. “Our democracy is still in danger. The conspiracy to counter the will of the people is not over,” said the elected official. After almost a year of investigation, the so -called “January 6” commission reveals how the chaos of this day “was the result of a coordinated campaign to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power From Donald Trump to Joe Biden “.
The role of Donald Trump under the magnifying glass
For almost a year, this group of elected officials, seven Democrats and two Republicans, heard more than 1,000 witnesses including two children from the former president and peel 140,000 documents to shed light on the facts and Gestures by Donald Trump before, during and after this event that has waged American democracy. SMS, draft decrees and tweets of the former president in support, a series of lawyers and witnesses present the various scenarios envisaged by the former president and his entourage to change the course of the 2020 presidential election, Until the capture of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Bennie Thomsppon is formal: “Donald Trump was at the center of this plot”. During this cold winter day, thousands of his supporters had gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the 2020 election which had seen the ex-real estate magnet lose. A crowd had taken the seat of the US Congress, causing a world shock wave. A Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards, “the first member of the police to have been injured by the rioters” on January 6, as well as a documentary author, Nick Quested, whose team followed the Far -right militia of the “Proud Boys” during the assault, are the first witnesses of this hearing.
Many Americans will discover “for the first time” what really happened on January 6, said President Joe Biden on Thursday, June 9. The revelations of the commission are broadcast live on numerous continuous information channels, but shunned by the most conservative media like Fox News, a new illustration of the deep political fracture line that has divided the United States since this attack.
A commission of inquiry tailored by the Republicans
Because a year and a half after the Capitol assault, millions of supporters of Donald Trump remain firmly convinced that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. And this, despite the countless evidence of the opposite. The main interested party, Donald Trump, once again praised this day on Thursday, assuring that the Capitol assault was the “biggest movement in history to give America to its greatness”. Supporters of the Parliamentary Commission consider its essential work in order to guarantee that one of the darkest episodes in American history never repeats itself.
But the majority of Republicans reject his work, the conservative chief in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, denouncing the “most political and legitimate commission in the history of the United States”. His party has already promised to bury the work of this commission if he came to take control of the Chamber during the mid-term legislative elections in November.