The final report of the House committee that for a year and a half investigated the January 6, 2021 uprising - when Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington - accuses the former president of having participated in a "criminal conspiracy" to overturn the results of the presidential elections.
According to what he writes in his report (814 pages long) - the chairman of the commission, the Democrat Bennie Thompson - it would have been Trump himself who "lighted the fire of the revolt".
Very serious accusations due to which, the report concludes, Trump «should be
banned from any public office in the future" . This, argue the seven Democrats and two Republicans of the Commission, on the basis of article 14 of the American Constitution which establishes that "anyone who has taken an oath to serve it may be excluded from any public office if involved in insurrection or rebellion".
For his part, the former president replied to the Special Commission of the Chamber accusing it of "political manipulation".
"The totally biased Commission report - attacks Trump in a post on his social media Truth - forgot to mention that Pelosi did not heed my recommendation to use the military in Washington. I used the words in "peace and so patriotic" and I invited to
examine the reason for the protest. This - concludes the Republican tycoon, who in November announced his intention to run again for the 2024 presidential elections - is a witch hunt!".
(Unioneonline/lf)
