The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Donald Trump for the Capitol Hill incident on January 6, 2021.
This was reported by informed sources to the Washington Post, specifying that investigators are examining the conversations of the former US president and have seized the phone records of his closest advisors .
Investigators are questioning witnesses in front of a grand jury, including two prominent assistants to then Vice President Mike Pence, who have been investigating the conversations of Trump, his lawyers and others in his inner circle that took place between December 2020 and January for days. 2021.
TRUMP IN WASHINGTON - Meanwhile, Donald Trump returns to Washington . Pending his official candidacy for the 2024 elections, which now seems only a matter of time, the former president has revived his ultra-conservative agenda by attacking Joe Biden and the policies of the Democrats.
"We have made America great, now it has been brought to its knees. Our country has been humiliated in all international scenarios and the American dream has been torn apart", attacked the tycoon from the stage of the American First Policy Institute. , an organization created by his associates in early 2020.
Then he attacked Biden's migration policies : "We must close the borders" with Mexico and "send them back home and secure the country from the thousands of dangerous criminals who enter every week". The tycoon also addressed the issue of inflation, "the highest in 49 years" and skyrocketing gasoline prices, again accusing the Biden administration of "begging by swiping energy from other countries".
The former president then claimed that he had already won the elections twice : "The first time I ran in 2016 I won, the second time I did even better".
(Unioneonline / D)