Harsh news on the assault on the Capitol: Donald Trump should be “banned” from any public office

Former US President Donald Trump is expected to be “banned” from any future public office, following his role in last year’s storming of the Capitol. This is the conclusion of a long-awaited report by the Special Commission of the House of Representatives on the attack that has shocked the country.

The recommendation heads a list of proposals in the 845-page document aimed at ensuring there is no repeat of the deadly revolt by supporters of the former Republican president.

The committee accuses Trump of orchestrating this unprecedented and violent takeover in a failed attempt to hang on to power after losing the 2020 election. The New York tycoon, who has never acknowledged Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, insists to be the victim of a “witch hunt”.

“Our country has come too far to allow a defeated president to become a successful tyrant by subverting our democratic institutions (and) fomenting violence,” panel chair Bennie Thompson said in the introduction to the report released Thursday. evening.

“Nearly a year and a half into the investigation, I fear the danger our democracy has faced,” continued Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi.

“In particular, I think about what that mob was there to do: block the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another based on the lie that the elections were stolen and tainted by widespread fraud,” he explained.

“The rioters were inside the halls of Congress because the head of the executive branch of our government, the then president of the United States, told them to attack,” Thompson continued.

The report adds that “Donald Trump summoned that mob to Washington, DC, and then sent them to the Capitol to try to prevent my colleagues and I from fulfilling our constitutional duty to certify the election.”

The 845-page document calls for legislation to that Trump and others who “participated in the insurrection” cannot hold office, “whether federal or state, civilian or military.”

Trump has announced that he intends to run for the White House again in 2024.

A year and a half of research

The report was the culmination of 18 months of work by congressional investigators, who interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses to establish the root cause of the attack, which they blamed on the Republican billionaire.

The congressional committee — made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans — also recommended electoral law reforms, a federal crackdown on extremist groups, and designation of congressional certification of the presidential election as a “national security special event.” Union address.

The former president’s party has opposed every phase of the investigation and the change of legislature in January, when the Republicans will have the majority, raises doubts about the possibility that the recommendations will be adopted.

Titled “The Big Lie,” Chapter 1 of the report demonstrates Trump’s effort to delegitimize the 2020 election and falsely claim it was stolen.

Chapter 2, meanwhile, is titled “I just want to find 11,780 votes” and centers on Trump’s attempt to lobby state and election officials in the state of Georgia and elsewhere to reverse the election results.

In its final public meeting on Monday, the jury recommended that the Justice Department file criminal charges against Trump for four possible crimes: Obstruction of official proceedings, conspiracy to defraud the United States, making false statements to the government and inciting insurrection.

Trump denounces a ‘witch hunt’ both in this case and in other criminal and civil investigations into his business practices and his efforts to reverse his election defeat in Georgia.

The jury has begun turning over evidence to independent prosecutor Jack Smith, who is overseeing the federal investigation into Trump’s role in the riots and his handling of government secrets improperly kept at his Florida home.

Source: agencies

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