Trump gives few signs of cooperation and calls the legislative committee a “failure”

The former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021) crossed out “total failure” the legislative committee that approved this Thursday summoning him to testify for the assault on the Capitol from January 6, 2021.

In several messages on his social network, TRUTH SOCIAL, the former president accused the Lower House committee of not investigating “knowingly” election fraud “massive” that Trump claims without evidence that it occurred in the 2020 presidential election, where he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

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Without giving many indications that he will collaborate with that committee, Trump said that the reason for the assault on Capitol Hill was that alleged electoral fraud, which contradicts the findings of the legislative panel that this Thursday studied evidence that incriminates the former president.

Likewise, the former governor wondered why the committee did not ask him to testify months ago and has waited until the last moment, “in the last moments of their last meeting”to which he himself responded by saying that this commission is “a total failure”which, in his opinion, has only served to divide the country, “Which by the way is doing very poorly- the laughing stock of the whole world?”

The legislative committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 approved this Thursday summoning Trump to testify and deliver documents before this panel.

The measure was unanimously approved by the committee, which has been investigating the events of January 6 for more than a year and has called hundreds of former Trump Administration officials and advisers to testify.

This decision by Congress, whose two chambers are currently in the hands of Democrats, comes less than a month before the mid-term elections, on November 8, when a third of the seats in the Senate and all of the the low camera.

The summons, which now has to be issued by the committee, means that Trump will have to appear to answer questions from legislators under oath and has an expiration date of January 3, 2023, when the new Congress will be installed, with what the former president would have until that date to appear once the panel issues said summons.

The committee voted to subpoena Trump after holding its ninth public hearing on Thursday, where lawmakers presented evidence, including testimony and emails, to show that the former president deliberately rejected the results of the November 4, 2020 election. .

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“Trump had a premeditated plan to declare that the elections were fraudulent and stolen even before knowing the results” of the elections, said Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney during the hearing in Washington.

On January 6, 2021, some 10,000 people, most of them Trump supporters, demonstrated in front of the Capitol and about 800 stormed the building while Biden’s electoral victory was ratified. There were five deaths and some 140 officers injured.

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