Assault on the Capitol: the far right responded to a “call to arms” from Donald Trump

Published on: 07/13/2022 – 03:39 During the seventh hearing of the parliamentary committee in charge of the investigation into the day of January 6, 2021, Tuesday, the elected officials estimated, testimonies and tweets in support, that Donald Trump had incited far-right militias to coordinate to storm the Capitol. The far-right coordinated the assault on the Capitol after a message from Donald Trump perceived as a “call to arms”, said Tuesday July 12 a group of elected officials investigating how the former president tried to maintain himself. in power. This parliamentary committee – seven Democrats and two Republicans repudiated by their party – detailed during its seventh hearing the pressure exerted by the billionaire, from the presidential election of 2020 until the assault on Capitol Hill by his supporters, January 6, 2021.At the heart of the investigators’ presentation, a tweet from the ex-businessman dated December 19, 2020, in which the billionaire calls on the crowd to gather in the American capital on the day of the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.”Dangerous extremist groups””Big demonstration in Washington on January 6. Be there, it will be crazy”, wrote the tenant of the White House on Twitter, his favorite megaphone at the time. tweet served as a call to action n, and in some cases a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s loyal supporters,” said Democrat Stephanie Murphy. Conservatives immediately relayed Donald Trump’s call. One of them even mentions the possibility of “attacking” the Capitol. Donald Trump’s message also “electrified and galvanized his supporters, in particular dangerous extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys and other groups of racists and white nationalists ready to fight against the government”, accused the elected Democrat Jamie Raskin. ” via encrypted messaging and online forums. And exchanged regularly with a close friend of Donald Trump, Roger Stone. “They may not like to call themselves a militia, but they are,” said Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesman for the Oath Keepers “C ‘is a violent militia. “Arrived in the American capital with paramilitary equipment, the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys quickly interested federal prosecutors. Several of their members have been charged in recent months with “sedition”, a very rare charge that involves conspiring against the government or one of its laws. The parliamentary committee also received testimony on Tuesday from a repentant Trumpist , who entered the grounds of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and has since lost his job and been forced to sell his house. “It changed my life, and certainly not for the better,” said Stephen Ayres, who went embrace several police officers injured during the assault on the Capitol at the end of the hearing. whether it is in his maneuvers to overturn the result of the 2020 election. “President Trump is a 76-year-old man, not an easy child to impress”, assured the elected Liz Cheney, one of the few Republicans to have accepted to sit on this commission.”Donald Trump cannot stand avoid responsibility by being deliberately blind,” she warned, at a time when some are calling for the former president to be charged for his post-election maneuvers. With AFP