A grand jury determined this Tuesday to indict former President Donald Trump for the assault on the Capitol in January 2021 that left several dead and injured and his efforts to annul the results of the presidential presidential elections against Joe Biden in 2020.
The former Republican president received a letter last week from special counsel Jack Smith informing him that he was “under investigation” and giving him four days to testify.
In the letter to Trump, it was mentioned that he could receive three possible charges: disenfranchisement, witness tampering and conspiracy to commit a crime of conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States.
The violent assault on the Capitol occurred while the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the November 2020 elections was being certified and the parliamentary committee that investigated what happened concluded last December that Trump decided not to immediately stop his mob of followers because he suited.
Trump sees this new judicial chapter as a “witch hunt” against him. “I am going to be the Republican candidate and I am ahead of Biden, that is why I received this horrible news,” he said the same Sunday.
Normally receiving that notification is a step prior to the imputation, which would be the third against you.
The former president did not appear before the grand jury last week, in breach of the maximum term granted by the judicial authorities.
“HE WAS THE SOLE RESPONSIBLE”, ACCORDING TO THE COMMITTEE OF JANUARY 6
Then-President Donald Trump criminally planned to overturn his 2020 election loss and “provoked his supporters to violence” on Capitol Hill with false claims of voter fraud, the congressional committee investigating the violent incident has concluded.
“The central cause of January 6 was one man, former President Donald Trump, who was followed by many others,” reads the statement. the report of the committee of January 6 of the House of Representatives, which is published in full this Thursday. “None of the events of January 6 would have happened without him.”
The summary of the report describes how Trump refused to accept the legal result of the 2020 election and planned to overturn his defeat: he pressured state lawmakers to hold votes that invalidated Biden’s voters, tried to “corrupt the Department of Justice of America” by urging department officials to make false statements about the election and repeatedly tried personally to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to change democracy with unprecedented objections in the joint session of Congress, the report noted.
The former president said Biden staged “political theater” on the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol. Details in the video.
THE OTHER INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST TRUMP
Trump was criminally charged in June before a Miami court for the illegal withholding of classified White House documents, obstruction of justice and conspiracy, among other crimes. He became the first former president in US history to face federal charges.
According to the indictment, Trump would have illegally taken hundreds of classified documents, including folders with nuclear secrets, which he stored in various parts of his Mar-a-Lago (Florida) mansion, such as a bedroom, a ballroom , a bathroom and a shower. He would have taken them in January 2021, when he left the Presidency.
The former president was also indicted in March in a Manhattan (New York) court for irregular payments to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels during her 2016 election campaign. That was the first criminal offense charge launched against a former US president, in that case at the state level, not federal.
His other pending investigation centers on the 2020 election for his attempts to overturn the results of those elections in the southern state of Georgia, where Biden won by a narrow margin.
