US: Investigative panel says Trump wanted to defraud the 2020 presidential election

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UNITED STATES – Donald Trump and his allies engaged in criminal activities in an attempt to overthrow it Presidential elections 2020On the evening of Wednesday, March 2, the Parliamentary Committee in charge of the investigation submitted attack In the US Capitol By a crowd of supporters of the former president.

In a briefing obtained by several US media, she wrote that the commission had sufficient evidence “to conclude in good faith that the president and members of his campaign participated in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

The Authority’s statements do not constitute its final conclusion, Investigation Still in progress. It is no less incriminating against Donald Trump, who fought to hold on to power After losing to Joe Biden.

“conspiracy to commit a crime”

US media reported that the committee drafted its memo following a court request to obtain documents from right-wing lawyer John Eastman.

It was this Donald Trump ally who wrote a now famous memo describing how, according to him, Vice President Mike Pence can prevent Lawmakers will certify Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump in a regular session of Congress on January 6, 2021. In the end, Mike Pence refused to do so.

The commission found that the act violated US law criminalizing “conspiracy to commit a crime against the United States or to defraud the United States or any of its agencies in any form or any purpose.”

For months – and long before the election – Donald Trump, then one of Twitter’s most powerful users, had instilled the idea in tens of millions of subscribers that elections could be rigged. On January 6, before the deadly attack on the Capitol, he again criticized alleged electoral fraud during a meeting in front of the White House and called on the crowd to “fight.”

The Republican faced a second impeachment trial in the wake of the Capitol attack, but was acquitted by the Senate, which prosecuted him for “inciting rebellion.” Despite the discord and increasingly fierce internal opposition, he still controls the Republican Party and regularly hints at his desire to run for a second term in 2024.

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