After 18 months of investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol last year, lawmakers who make up the investigative commission vote this Monday from 3 p.m., in Argentina, whether they recommend Criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and some of his closest collaborators.

The House of Representatives committee interviewed more than a thousand witnesses and executed explosive public hearings about what happened on January 6, 2021 and the responsibility for these events.

The panel, composed of seven Democrats and two Republicanswill meet at 15:00 from Buenos Aires, to draw its conclusions on the investigation into the deadly riots involving Trump supporters, who falsely claim that the 2020 presidential election they were stolen by Joe BidenThey violently occupied the Capitol.

At least the riots are gone five killed and 140 officers of policeman wounded. Around 900 people have been arrested in connection with the violent events that have reverberated across the country and around the world.

any charges

The panel will decide whether or not to recommend that the Department of Justice (DoJ) press charges against Trumpwho is running to return to the Oval Office in the 2024 elections, for at least three offences, according to media reports.

These charges could be for incitement to insurrection, obstruction an official government procedure e conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, NBC News reported Sunday.

representatives cannot authorize debitsbut they can recommend doing it to the DoJ, which already appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Trump’s role in the Capitol riots and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

His vote, largely symbolic, non-binding and the decision will ultimately be up to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

But the three charges being considered could lead to Trump, who still wields strong influence in the Republican Party, prison sentences and disqualification from public office.

“I think the evidence is there that Donald Trump committed criminal offenses in connection with his efforts to overturn the election,” Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, Democratic Representative and member of the Investigative Committee, told CNN.

The Commission can also make legislative recommendations to protect the process of certifying election results Your final report It will be released on Wednesday.

Schiff did not provide details about possible criminal ties to Trump or what his vote would look like.

But referring to the former president on CNN’s “State of the Union,” she said: “I think the president has broken a number of criminal laws. And I think he should be treated like any other American who breaks the law, and that’s it. must be prosecuted”.

Trump has repeatedly belittled to the House of Representatives panel on its Truth Social platform, ranking its members as “Democrats, misfits and bullies”.

The former president defends the speech he gave before the January 6 riots and his other actions that day “soft and cuddly”.

That day, he called his supporters to “fight like crazy”.

Since July 2021, the commission has been investigating Trump’s actions before and during the peek on January 6 of that year.

Across eight hearings, the jury revealed a wealth of evidence that Trump was involved in a complicated series of related plans to cancel the election and that it was impossible for the then president to I was not aware of it who had lost the election to Joe Biden.

Trump was “in the center” of “a coup attempt”, said the head of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson.

The panel interviewed a number of Trump’s aides, including his then Attorney General Bill Barr and even his daughter Ivanka. In snippets of interviews given to the public, many of them said they never believed there had been electoral fraud.

The committee also revealed that Trump he lobbied his own vice presidentMike Pence and other officials in battleground states of Georgia and Arizona in an intimidation campaign to invalidate the November 2020 election.

By Frankie Taggart, AFP

ap​