January 6 was the “biggest move in American history” for Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump assured that the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in which the country is plunged again on Thursday through a parliamentary inquiry, was “one of the greatest moves in history to make to America its greatness”.

After almost a year of investigation, on the acts and gestures of the Republican billionaire before, during and after the attack on the American Congress, a group of elected officials present at 8:00 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT Friday) their first conclusions.

“The fruit of a coordinated campaign”

They promised to reveal how the chaos of that day “was the product of a coordinated campaign to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden”.

But for Donald Trump, this commission “did not consider for a single minute why the crowds came to Washington in large numbers” on January 6, 2021, he denounced Thursday on his social network , TruthSocial. That day, thousands of his supporters gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the 2020 election which saw the ex-real estate magnate lose. A crowd had stormed the headquarters of the US Congress, sending shock waves around the world.

“A rigged and stolen election”

“January 6 was not just a protest, it was one of the greatest moves in our country’s history to make America great again,” Trump said. “It was about a rigged and stolen election,” he assured, reiterating once again without evidence this conspiracy theory, repeatedly dismantled by the authorities.

For many months, the so-called “January 6” commission – seven Democrats and two Republicans – has heard more than 1,000 witnesses, including two children of the former president, and gone through 140,000 documents to shed light on the exact responsibility of Donald Trump in this event that shook American democracy.

Supporters of this commission consider its work essential in order to guarantee that one of the darkest episodes in the history of the United States will never be repeated. But the majority of Republicans denounce the work of this group of elected officials, the main interested party Donald Trump castigating a “witch hunt”.