He must submit documents to the commission of inquiry of the House of Representatives and file under oath on the events of January 6, which aimed to prevent the Congress from certifying the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP and reuters
Time is running out for the Commission of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States which investigates the assault launched by the supporters of Donald Trump against the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In a “historic” gesture, Friday 21 October, she quoted the former president to appear “the or around November 14”.
Donald Trump will have to submit documents to the Commission and file under oath on the events of January 6, which aimed to prevent the Congress from certifying the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election. Under the terms of the federal law, a refusal to respond to a quote to appear in the congress is liable from one to twelve months in prison, but this requires beforehand a vote of the House of Representatives to transmit the file to the Department of . The commission of inquiry requires Donald Trump that he puts the documents requested by November 4, and that he appears before November 14.
At the end of a television hearing, the commission of the House of Representatives responsible for shedding light on the role of the ex-president in the attack on January 6 had created the surprise by voting to the unanimity the summons of Mr. Trump. Whoever flirts openly with the idea of representing himself in 2024 had immediately renewed his attacks against an investigation qualified as “fiasco”, without revealing how he was going to answer them.
This commission, made up of seven elected democrats and two Republicans, has already questioned more than a thousand witnesses, including two children from Donald Trump, and peeled tens of thousands of documents, but came up against the refusal of cooperate some relatives. Ex-advisor Steve Bannon, considered as a craftsman of Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, was also sentenced to four months in prison on Friday for refusing to respond to his convocations. mid-term elections
The Commission is engaged in a race against the clock: if the Democrats lose control of the congress during the mid-term elections, on November 8, it risks being dissolved by the new republican majority. Its two leaders, the elected democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney, therefore formally summoned Donald Trump in just three weeks. “We admit that assigning a former president is an important and historical action and we do not take it lightly,” they wrote to him.
But, they added, “we have the evidence that you personally orchestrated and supervised a campaign to change the result of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power”, and it led “On a bloody attack on the Capitol”.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump convinced by his allegations of “electoral fraud” had sown chaos in the temple of American democracy, when elected officials certified the victory of his Democratic rival Joe Biden . The Republican, who had urged his supporters to “beat like devils”, had immediately been the subject of a trial in dismissal at the Congress, but had been acquitted thanks to the senators of his party.
It did not put an end to the case: in its final report, the Commission could recommend that it charms it. The decision will ultimately return to the Minister of Justice Merrick Garland, a prudent and methodical man who “excludes anything”.