Trump will be summoned to testify for his role in the attack on Capitol Hill

First modification: 10/14/2022 – 10:56

With our correspondent in the United States, Silvina Sterin Pensel

The nine-member vote in favor came during a public hearing that featured new video footage showing Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer making calls on that fateful day in January for help from the National Guard.

With this action, perhaps the last the committee takes before the midterm elections next month, the bipartisan Committee expects President Trump to file documents and testify about exactly what his role was in the attack on the Congress.

While most of the calls to testify comply with the panel’s orders, this subpoena will surely face resistance from Trump, who frequently repeats that he is the victim of a witch hunt and that the panel has a political agenda aimed at bringing him down and ousting him. to the ground their electoral aspirations.

The unknown is whether Trump will attend or not. At the moment he reacted through his social network Truth Social. “Why didn’t they ask me to testify a few months ago? Why did they wait until the end, until the last moments of the last meeting? Because the commission is a total FIASCO and has served nothing but to stop dividing the country,” he wrote. Republican billionaire.

During the hearing that culminated in the vote, the vice president of the Committee, the Republican Liz Cheney, referred to Trump as “the central person in charge of the episodes of January 6” and added that getting him to testify is the main task of the investigation Committee. .

“She is the key person in the story of what happened on January 6. We want to hear from her. She needs to be held accountable,” said panel chief Bennie Thompson.

Republicans have promised to shut down the Democratic-led panel if they regain a majority in the House of Representatives in the November election.