United States: in oval office, around Donald Trump, a “crazy” meeting before gear of 6-January

The parliamentary commission of inquiry leaning on Tuesday on the links between the entourage of the former president and two far -right groups.

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On December 19, 2020, Donald Trump broadcast twenty -one tweets. A banal production, according to its standards. One of them entered history, sent at 1:42 a.m. The outgoing president repeated there that it was “statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election”. He added: “Big demonstration in Washington on January 6 [2021]. SOE, it will be crazy!”

White heated for two months, Trump supporters welcomed the invitation with enthusiasm. Basic activists, conspiratorial sites and especially far -right militias, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: all checked the date in the calendar. A tweet as a green light to prevent the peaceful transition of power, the day of the planned certification of the presidential election at the Congress.

Tuesday, July 12, during its 7 e public hearing, the commission of inquiry of the House of Representatives looked at the preparations for this meeting. The courts had rejected 60 of the 61 complaints filed by the Trump team about imaginary fraud. Many advisers to the White House, including Ivanka Trump and the lawyer team, said the outgoing president should recognize his defeat. “To say that [the evidence of fraud] was slim is probably an understatement,” said the President Jason Miller.

However, a few hours before the famous tweet, a stormy meeting – “crazy”, according to a witness – took place in the oval office, on the evening of December 18, 2020. She lasted six hours and was animated by howls , insults and even physical threats, before ending upstairs, in the residence. The echoes got along in the corridors.

The unforeseen guests were Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for the president, the former national security advisor Michael Flynn, the conspiracy lawyer Sidney Powell, as well as Patrick byrne, ex-boss of the company Overstock.com, all very invested In the election denunciation campaign won by Joe Biden. This small group of external and informal advisers was there to feed the vilest instincts of Donald Trump. They had a presidential decree project in hand, written two days earlier. He provided for the seizure by the army of voting machines in the disputed states.

no decree, but a tweet

Informed of these visitors, the legal adviser of the White House, Pat Cipollone, arrived in a disaster, accompanied by his colleague Eric Herschmann. He discovered the small assembly with amazement. “I did not understand how they had entered.” Advisors from the outside, without limits or morals, against advisers from the interior, still distinguishing in the Trumpian night the principles of a rule of law: thus put the Grabs.

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