Donald Trump and his associates were involved in illegal actions to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, the special commission of inquiry investigating the attack of a large number of supporters of the former US President on the 6th Republican 2021.
The commission has enough evidence to “conclude in good faith that the (former) president and members of his campaign team were involved in a criminal conspiracy to deceive the United States,” the statement said. possession of several American media.
This position of the ad hoc committee is not its conclusion: the investigation it is conducting is still ongoing.
But that does not make its content any less serious for Mr. Trump, who fought to seize power after being defeated by Joe Biden in November 2020.
The committee of inquiry drafted this text in the context of a request to a court to gain access to documents of the right-wing lawyer John Eastman, American media explain.
Trump’s lawyer’s lawyer is the one who drafted the most infamous “memorandum” describing how, according to him, former Vice President Mike Pence could prevent members of Congress from ratifying Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump at an otherwise routine session of parliament on January 6, 2021. Mr. Pence refused to do so.
The commission considers that in this case the American law was violated, which explicitly prohibits any “conspiracy to commit a crime against the United States or to deceive the United States or any of its services in any way and for any purpose.”
Donald Trump, then one of the most influential users of the social networking site Twitter, instilled in his tens of millions of “followers” for months, even before the election, the idea that the election would be rigged.
On Jan. 6, shortly before the bloody raid on his federal headquarters, he denounced alleged electoral fraud during a rally shortly after the White House, calling on the crowd to “fight” to stop the “theft.” ».
The Republican was referred for the second time to a trial that decided whether he would step down after the attack on the Capitol, but was acquitted by the Senate, where the charge against him for “inciting insurrection” was considered.
He remains the leader of the Republican Party and regularly hints that he intends to run for a second term in the 2024 elections.
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