United States: presents evidence against Donald Trump for the violent assault on Congress on January 6, 2021

The House commission investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill on Thursday presented evidence of pressure exerted by the former president Donald Trump for his deputy Mike Pence to cancel the 2020 election, that those pressures were resisted and that is why a violent Trump-fueled crowd stormed Congress.

In the third hearing on this controversial day that has undermined democracy in the United States, the committee presented the results of your research so far.

Lawmakers detailed the intense pressure campaign Trump and conservative lawyer John Eastman (who advised the president after losing the election) waged against Pence. try to cancel the electionss, which according to the jury directly contributed to the violent assault on Congress.

“We are lucky for Mr. Pence’s courage on January 6”, said Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the committee. “Our democracy has come dangerously close to catastrophe.”

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Greg Jacob, the best attorney in the Pence White House, testified that his boss he always knew that Trump’s plans were illegal. Pence’s first reaction upon hearing about them, Jacob said, was that “there was no way” it was “justifiable”.

The committee also focused on Trump himself knowing he would cancel the election it wasn’t legal. As evidence, they played a video of Jacob testifying that attorney Eastman had admitted to Trump two days before the riot that his plan to have Pence obstruct voter certification violated the law.

The committee also showed a chilling video with a pitchfork which was built outside the Capitol and members of the crowd violently threatened Pence after Trump delivered his speech by putting pressure on his vice. There, Trumpists were seen shouting: “Get Pence out!” and “Hang Mike Pence!”

The committee also presented evidence that Trump knew the Capitol was under siege with Pence inside as the president continued tweeting with his vice against for not having rejected the electoral results, while a demonstration a few steps away was asking for his head. “Donald Trump turned a mob against him,” Thompson said.

Retired Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig, who advised Pence to resist Trump’s effort to cancel the election, testified that if the vice president had moved forward it would have been “equivalent to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in the United States ”, constituting“ the first constitutional crisis since the foundation of the republic ”.

Proof

The committee provided evidence that many of Trump’s top advisers believed Pence he could not legally refuse the electoral votes went to Democrat Joe Biden. Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, said Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, also agreed it was illegal.

But, he noted, “Mark had said so many things to so many different people …” The committee also presented evidence that Attorney Eastman knew that the plan violated the electoral law and that if he went before the Supreme Court he would lose unanimously.

White House Advisor Eric Herschmann testified that he told Eastman: “You will make riots in the streets”. And she said Eastman replied: “There has been violence in the history of our country to protect democracy or to protect the republic.”

Since that fateful January 6, Pence lowered his profile further, while Trump publicly insulted him for not obeying him. In February, Pence broke up with the former president when he said “Trump is wrong” and that “the presidency belongs only to Americans” and that “there is no more un-American idea than the idea that one person can elect the president. of the United States.

Pence devoted himself to walking throughout the United States like a potential presidential candidate for 2024. In the Republican primary he supported candidates opposed to Trump and said voters praise him for resisting pressure from the former White House head. These auditions can serve to strengthen your candidacy in the future.

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