On Thursday in Washington, almost a year and a half after a well -known attack on Capitol on January 6, 2021, after about 100 summons to the court and more than 1000 different testimonies, a series of public hearings began, at which the specially created committee will present their conclusions about the incident about the incident. . This was reported by the Russian service BBC.
The Committee, headed by the Democrats, wants to release the final report on the riots and attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential elections. All this can lead to judicial persecution and the adoption of new laws to strengthen the safety of elections, the publication says.
Democrats hope that the hearings will remind voters about the attack on the Capitols, undertaken in 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, and they will remember this when they arrive at polling stations in the intermediate elections in November.
Public trials, as their organizers hope, will show that on January 6 it was the result of “coordinated multi -stage efforts to cancel the results of the 2020 elections and prevent the transfer of power” and that former president Donald Trump stood in the center of these events.
The leading Republicans spoke on the Fox News television channel, rejecting this investigation in advance as an attempt by democrats to prevent Trump’s return to the White House. Donald Trump himself said on Thursday that the committee consists of “political thugs” that did not spend a minute studying the real reasons why people went en masse to Washington.
Opening the hearing, the head of the Committee Benny Thompson called the riots on January 6 an attempt to a coup, during which violence was not an accident. He rejected the statement that the work of the committee was politically motivated.
One of the two Republicans in the Commission, Liz Cheney, promised to introduce video cameras to the Americans, which they had not yet seen, and to publish elements of the plan to prepare the attack. “The attack on the Capitol was not spontaneous riots,” Cheney said.
In the park next to the Capitol, large screens were placed, on which the audience on Thursday could see some shots of events on January 6, 2021.
The former US prosecutor general Bill Barr said at the hearing that all Trump’s statements about the elections stolen from him were unfounded.
The hearings also presented the testimony of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the ex-president, who essentially agreed with the opinion of Barra, who rejected the theory of the conspiracy that her father promoted.
The Committee, chaired by the 74-year-old Congressman-democrat from the state of Mississippi Benny Thompson, consists of seven democrats and two Republicans-Liz Chain and Adam Kilansger who opposed Trump. So far, three hearings are planned – already held on Thursday, as well as scheduled for Monday and Wednesday next week. However, the organizers say that later they will announce the next three meetings. The generalizing session is planned to be held in the fall, after which the final report will be published.