Trump sues the US Capitol assault committee to avoid declaring

The former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021) filed a lawsuit this Friday against the congressional committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to avoid having to testify before him and deliver documentation.

Trump He filed the complaint in a Florida Court, where he resides, and in a statement his lawyer, David Warrington, assured that the precedents in cases like this preserve the separation of powers and prohibit the Legislative branch from forcing the Executive to have to testify.

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On October 21, the committee formally summoned Trump to testify under oath and deliver documents related to their actions in the days before and on the day of the events.

The panel indicated that the declaration of Trump It should take place from November 14.

The committee also released the content of the letter that its president, the Democrat Bennie Thompson, and his vice president, the Republican Liz Cheney, sent to Trump, where they highlight the “center role” that he exerted in the “orchestrated and intentional” effort to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, in which he was defeated by the current president, Joe Biden.

In addition, they highlighted the role he played for “block” the transition of power.

Specifically, the committee accuses Trump of disseminating false information that electoral fraud occurred, which he was unable to prove in court by not providing evidence, to annul the result of the vote.

He also considers that the former president sought “corrupt” the Department of Justice, in addition to pressuring local officials and legislators to alter the results, summoning tens of thousands of their supporters that January 6, inciting violence in messages on their social networks on that date and refusing to disperse their supporters.

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

Source: Elcomercio

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