Sahar Khamis, a professor of media at the University of Maryland, confirmed that the investigation committee into the latest attack on the US Capitol heard more than a thousand witnesses, including people from former President Donald Trump's circle, and succeeded in revealing what she described as shocking facts about Trump's practices. Including lies, incitement to violence and the use of illegal funds.
She told an episode (7/28/2022) of the program "From Washington" that the investigations into the congressional attack showed the state of division in the United States, and linked this division to the growth of a right-wing populist extremist movement that has been operating for years, and with a part of the media, which she said, for example, ignored the coverage of the hearings Regarding the events of the storming of Congress, I specifically mentioned the "FOX News" channel, which did not cover those sessions.
For his part, activist and political analyst, Khaled Safuri, pointed out that there is a great division in the United States, linking it to the way the Democratic and Republican parties and the media are treated, and said that Trump exacerbated the division because he introduced wings and brought extremist groups from the south to the Republican Party, which cannot get rid of those groups. .
In the same context, he revealed that the Republican Party had informed Trump that it would not pay its legal expenses if he contested the upcoming elections.
Regarding the accusations leveled at Trump, Safuri said that former President George W. Bush, for example, entered his country into the Iraq war, which relied on lies, and cost it billions of dollars and many lives, but he - that is, Bush - was not tried.
Democratic Representative Benny Thompson was the head of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the events of the storming of the Capitol;
The former US president was accused of "opening the way to chaos and corruption in an irresponsible manner," in the commission's last public hearing.
Thompson added that those responsible for the attack on the seat of the legislature in the United States on January 6, 2021, should be "accountable before the law" for their "aggression against democracy."
As for the professor of international law, Gabriel Soma, he denied the existence of a criminal offense against Trump because of his objection to the presidential elections that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, won, and said that previous presidents also objected to the elections they ran.
It is noteworthy that the attack on Congress, which took place on January 6, 2021, took place while the Senate and House of Representatives were counting votes to ratify the result of the presidential election, as thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building and smashed windows and doors, in an attack that surprised the security forces.