Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, as well as three other close associates of the former president, have been summoned to testify before a special commission of inquiry into the attack.
Rudy Giuliani, who had secured a lot of political capital during the 9/11 attacks, which he squandered before coming back to the forefront as a close ally of Donald Trump, is accused of spearheading baseless allegations of fraud in his 2020 presidential election. tried to persuade local elected officials to help overturn the outcome of this process.
He was summoned to appear before the special examination committee of the House of Representatives on February 8.
The committee is trying to ascertain the responsibility of Donald Trump and his entourage for the attack on the congressional headquarters by thousands of supporters of the stormy tycoon in order to prevent the formal validation of the victory of his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, in the presidential elections.
Mr Giuliani was summoned as he “examines the reasons behind the Jan. 6 violence, in particular his efforts to promote unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud,” said Black Democrat B.
Another former Donald Trump lawyer, Sidney Powell, was summoned to testify on the same date.
Together with Mr. Giuliani, Ms. Powell, during press conferences that were often more confusing than anything else, spread various improbable conspiracy theories, alleging, for example, that … Venezuela and Cuba secretly collaborated with the Democrats so that they the latter to steal the “victory” from Donald Trump.
Other former close associates of Mr. Trump, including former White House Secretary of State Mark Mendowe, have been summoned to testify. But, sticking to the instructions of the former president, who characterizes the special committee of inquiry as biased, if not an instrument of the Democrats, they refuse to cooperate.
The commission, which is working hard, has taken testimony from nearly 400 witnesses.
She is forced to rush if she wants to make her findings public before the November midterm elections. As if the Republicans regain control of the US lower house in the upcoming elections, it is considered a given that they will dissolve it and bury its work.
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