The nine members of the Commission – Seven Democrats and two Republicans – pronounced unanimously so that Donald Trump deposits under oath on the events of January 6, 2021.
Le Monde
The parliamentary committee investigating the role of Donald Trump in the assault against the Capitol of January 6, 2021 estimated, Thursday, October 13, that the ex-president had planned “well in advance” to declare himself victorious of the 2020 presidential election, even before the results were known. The nine members of the Commission – Seven Democrats and two Republicans – voted by a vote unanimously so that Donald Trump files under oath on the events of January 6, 2021, before its members.
During this new public hearing, the panel focused on Thursday on “the state of mind” of Mr. Trump, “his intentions and his motivations”. The ex-president lost to the Democrat Joe Biden but continued to support against all obviousness that the election had been “stolen”.
“The central cause of January 6, is only one man “
On January 6, 2021, supporters of Donald Trump had taken the siege of the Congress to try to prevent elected officials from certifying the victory of Joe Biden.
The elements raised by the Commission “showed us that the central cause of January 6 is only one man, Donald Trump, that many others followed. None of that would have happened without him. He has been personally and substantially involved in all of this, “said Republican Liz Cheney, bane of the billionaire and vice-president of the commission.
The elected Democrat Zoe Lofgren spoke of “a premeditated plan of the president to declare his victory, whatever the real result”. Her victory speech “was planned well in advance, before the votes were counted,” she added. “His intention was clear, ignore the rule of law and stay in power,” insisted the Republican Adam Kinzinger.
In support of them, the elected officials projected several videos of the ex-president, some of his relatives or former employees of the White House.
On images shot just before the presidential election of 2020 by a Danish team for a documentary, we can hear Roger Stone, long-standing ally of the former republican president, say that he does not do Voting.
“Let the vote are fucked up, let’s go directly to violence,” he says. Mr. Stone, who was not charged in connection with January 6, challenged the authenticity of the videos, saying that they had been manipulated.
SMS sent the same day erased
The Commission also replayed a registration of a call from Donald Trump to Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, in which the ex-president says he “need” some 11,000 voting bulletins to his NAME – A sufficient number to beat his rival Joe Biden in this southern state.
The Commission also unveiled elements from hundreds of thousands of pages provided by the Secret Service, the elite police responsible for the close protection of the high personalities of the State. Elected officials want to understand why certain SMS of agents sent on the day of the assault have been deleted.
The documents confirm elements presented in previous hearings, according to which Trump ignited the crowd of his supporters although he was informed of the potential of violence, said the elected Adam Schiff.
Since its creation, the Commission has questioned more than a thousand witnesses, including two children from Donald Trump, and peeled tens of thousands of documents. The investigation report must be made public by the end of the year, but probably not before the parliamentary elections of November 8 which will determine which party will control the Congress for the rest of the mandate of President Biden.