Former US President Donald Trump today classified the members of the congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol as “radical leftists”, considering the conclusion about what happened on January 6, 2021, “a total fraud”.
The aforementioned commission ruled on Thursday that Trump on the day of the attack pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to block the ratification of the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 elections, knowing that his plan was “illegal”.
“Each of the members are radical leftists who hate us. (…) They are weaving a false narrative and a chilling attempt to prosecute their political opponents,” the former Republican president said during a rally in Nashville, Tennessee. .
Trump believes the committee’s investigation is based on “rigged” videos and “taken out of context” statements, intended to damage the image of Republicans ahead of the midterm elections in November.
“Everything they say is a complete lie and a total fraud,” he insisted.
In the videos projected at the hearing, several witnesses questioned in the past by the committee emerge, including Trump’s daughter and former aide, Ivanka Trump, who testified that the then President called Pence, who was supposed to preside over the session of Congress to ratify the victory of Biden, to put pressure on him.
Trump, who today repeated his false accusation that there was electoral fraud in 2020, assured that he did not ask Pence to “decide” the outcome of the election, but rather to send the results to state congresses for analysis.
“Mike Pence had the opportunity to be great. He had the opportunity to do something historic. But like (Prosecutor) Will Barr and other weak people, he didn’t have the guts to act,” Trump said.
That January 6, a crowd of Trump supporters stormed Congress to disrupt the session, an attack in which five people were killed and about 140 agents were assaulted.
Earlier, Trump had delivered an impassioned speech near the White House, where he encouraged his supporters to march toward Capitol Hill, launching baseless accusations that Democrats committed voter fraud in that vote.