In the months after the 2020 election, former US President Donald Trump “spread the lie that there was fraud.” These accusations “were false and he knew” they were false. This is how the US Attorney’s Office described Trump’s effort to annul his defeat, which culminated in the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 and which confronts him with his third trial. “Trump tried to feed the fear of unpredictability that he instills in North Americans and also in other world leaders”, as explained in the video that accompanies this news item, the senior researcher specializing in disinformation and global politics at CIDOB Carme Colomina. The lawyer and expert in International Law Pedro Soriano insists that “no law prevents Trump from lying”: he is accused precisely for “having conspired with several people to turn that lie into reality.”
Both experts analyze in this video what role Trump’s lies have played in this new judicial accusation and what lessons we can also draw in Spain. As Colomina points out, “it can be a warning that certain rhetoric cannot be played with because it has judicial consequences that go further.”
