“Trump was not manipulated” according to the US Congressional Committee.

First modification: 07/13/2022 – 03:25

The surreal images of the assault on the Capitol were once again at the center of the controversy after the revelations of the legislators who make up the Oversight Committee of the US House of Representatives, who met this Tuesday, in Washington, to show testimonial evidence linking former President Donald Trump with far-right groups, among other revelations.

The audience, seventh in the entire investigation processHe focused on show the individual responsibility of the former president with the extremist groups that were present in the Capitol such as the ‘Oath Keepers’, the ‘Proud Boys’, among other racist and supremacist groups.

Representative Liz Cheney attacked the central defense strategy that sought to avoid the responsibilities of the former president, assuring that “now the argument seems to be that President Trump was manipulated by others outside the Administration.”

The Republican assured that try to blame the controversial lawyer John Eastman, who is also linked to the investigations; or the conspiracy theorist Sydney Powell; or Congressman Scott Perry, It is the new strategy with which Trump seeks to divert responsibilities.

“The strategy is to blame the people, his advisers called, I quote, ‘crazy people,’ for what Donald Trump did. This, of course, is nonsense. President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child. “said the representative for Wyoming.

More revelations that embarrass Trump

Rep. Cheney shared at the hearing that the former Republican president had tried to contact one of the witnesses. Without providing more details of her identity. “We have notified the Department of Justice of this fact,” Cheney said.

In the public hearing, concern was also expressed about the contact that Trump, or some of his allies, have tried to establish with those who appear in the hearings. An alleged witness tampering that could start new lines of investigation.

Another of the great revelations against the former president, who does not hide his intentions to return to the presidential race in 2024, was a meeting on December 18, 2020.

The committee, made up of nine legislators, showed new testimony from former White House adviser Pat Cipollone, detailing how Trump “ignored” advisers who recommended giving Joe Biden the win in the absence of evidence on an unfounded electoral fraud.

On the contrary, the Republican preferred to listen to advisers who reinforced his theories and even suggested confiscating the ballot boxes. “This is not how we do things in the United States,” Cipollone testified.

Other key witnesses appeared at this hearing: on the one hand, two members of the ultra-nationalist organization ‘Proud Boys’; and Army veteran Stewart Rhodes, responsible for founding ‘Oath Keepers’ –far-right group that was present at the uprising on Capitol Hill. All told details of how they organized themselves to reach the capital of the North American nation to fulfill their mission.

Twitter, a “wild” weapon against the Capitol

The social network that Donald Trump used the most in his four years in the White House “electrified and galvanized” his followers, according to Democratic representative Jamie Raskin.

from this grandstand on-line Trump sent, according to the committee’s revelations, a tweet in which he invited his followers to demonstrate at the Capitol: “I will be there”, “it will be wild”, he sentenced through his account.

Lawmakers also posted an unpublished Twitter message about the campaign event with a stamp showing that Trump had seen it: “Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to Capitol after. Stop robbery!” “.

To date, nearly 800 defendants, including extremists and radicals, have been accused of participating in the Capitol riots, with around 250 guilty pleas.

With AFP, Reuters, EFE and local media