The parliamentary commission investigating the role of former US leader Donald Trump in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 said Thursday that the attack was not a spontaneous moment, but an “attempted coup”.

Presenting the first findings of the investigation, the commission released a never-before-seen 12-minute video featuring moments from the violent robbery and testimony from Trump’s inner circle.

The panel argued that Trump’s repeated lies about possible voter fraud and the public effort to prevent Joe Biden from winning the 2020 election led to the attack and endangered American democracy, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

“Democracy is still in danger,” Democrat and committee chairman Bennie Thompson said during the prime-time hearing.

“January 6th was the culmination of a coup attempt, a brazen attempt, as one agitator put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government,” Thompson added. And he stressed: “The violence was not an accident.”

In one of the videos, members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, far-right groups, can be seen preparing to enter the Capitol.

Also testifying at the commission’s first hearing was Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered serious injuries during the robbery.

Panel vice chairwoman and Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who led much of the hearing, accused Donald Trump of summoning “a violent mob.”

When a president fails to take the necessary steps to preserve our unity, or worse yet, provokes a constitutional crisis, we are at a time of greatest danger to our republic,” Cheney said.

President Joe Biden, who is in Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas, said many viewers will “see a lot of details” of the heist for the first time.

Trump praised the invasion of the capitol

Donald Trump on Thursday praised the invasion of the Capitol. “January 6 was not just a protest, it was one of the largest movements in the history of our country to make America great again,” said the former head of state, alluding to the ‘slogan’ he used in the protests. 2016 election, “Making America Great Again.”

That day, thousands of supporters of the former Republican president gathered in Washington at a rally to denounce the result of the 2020 elections, in which Trump was defeated. The images of a mob storming the seat of the United States Congress shocked the world.

For many months, the so-called January 6 Commission – seven Democrats and two Republicans – listened to more than a thousand witnesses, including two sons of the former president, and analyzed 140,000 documents to clarify the exact responsibility of Donald Trump in the event that shook democracy in the north. .-American.

Supporters of the commission see this work as critical to ensuring that one of the darkest episodes in American history never repeats itself.

However, most Republicans denounce the work of the committee’s group of congressional elect as a “witch hunt.”