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Throughout the month of June, the United States House of Representatives has held a series of hearings with a single purpose: to piece together the puzzle of how then-President Donald Trump weaved a web of lies and pressure to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election. ; and in turn define the role of the former president in the taking of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It is the topic that we analyze in our program.
With the spread of lies, with a wave of lawsuits and then with a call for demonstrations in the streets, former President Trump tried to sow a false idea that there was fraud in the elections held in November 2020 and that Joe Biden had not won. really the elections.
The height of Trump’s attempts was the takeover of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which left five dead, 14 injured and what many consider an affront to American democracy. For that reason, the House of Representatives formed a committee to investigate Trump’s role in this assault.
So far there have been five hearings, the last three have focused on the pressure exerted by the then president against the officials to try to convince them to revoke the elections. What was the real role of Donald Trump in these events? How will this series of hearings end? Will criminal charges be brought against Trump? We analyze it in this edition of El Debate together with our guests:
– Heidi Jane Smith, professor and researcher in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
– Rafael Peñalver, political analyst and constitutional lawyer from the United States.
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