After 18 months of hard work, the committee investigating the assault on the capitol in the last presidential elections of the North American country unanimously agreed to recommend to the Department of Justice the criminal prosecution of former President Trump for three crimes: inciting or aiding an insurrection, obstruction of an official congressional proceeding, conspiracy to deceive the State, and conspiracy to give false testimony.

Although the recommendations do not establish any obligation for justice to bring charges against Trump, they mark a precedent in US history and could put pressure on the Justice Department.

This occurs in the framework of the sedition trial (the uprising of a group of people against a government with the aim of overthrowing it) against five members of the far-right group Proud Boys for the attack on the United States Capitol in 2021, which began today, Monday. December 19 with the selection of the jury.

The assault on the United States Capitol that occurred after the electoral defeat of then-President Donald Trump marked a milestone in the history of the country.

The House of Representatives created a commission made up of eight members, six of them Democrats, who have dedicated themselves to investigating the assault on the Capitol by hundreds of Trump supporters during the protocol confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory.

The commission has voted in a final public session on bringing criminal charges based on a lengthy investigation. However, the commission’s final report will not be published until next Wednesday.

This request will now be transferred to the Department of Justice, which is also investigating Trump in parallel for his involvement in these incidents, which resulted in the death of five people. Four more committed suicide after the events.

Recently, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Adam Schiff, has assured that the actions of former President Donald Trump during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 “quite fit” with the description of the crime of insurrection typified in US law.

“He is someone who tried in multiple ways to pressure public officials to seek votes that do not exist,” Schiff said in statements to CNN. “He is someone who tried to interfere in a joint session (of Congress) and even incited a mob to attack the Capitol. If that is not criminally punishable, I don’t know what is, ”he argued.

Schiff has explained that criminal charges will not be filed for all individuals for whom evidence has been found, but will focus on those for whom they have the most and strongest evidence.

“The January 6 Committee just referred Donald John Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution of him. There is sufficient evidence that he committed multiple crimes,” Rep. Schiff said on his Twitter account.

As for Trump, he believes he “broke multiple criminal laws” and “should be treated like any other American who breaks the law and should be prosecuted.”

The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, had assured that the seditious who stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 are being treated in an “unconstitutional” and “very unfair” manner, and he threatened at that time to get “to the bottom of the matter”.

The United States “is turning communist”, the tycoon has come to say, who already revealed in past interviews that he is helping to finance the defense of some of these people involved in that assault.

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