Donald Trump starred in the assault on the Capitol as chief instigator.
This is the serious conclusion of the parliamentary investigation into the attack on the headquarters of the US Legislature on January 6, 2021, which attributes to the former president four crimes:
"Incitement to insurrection, obstruction of an official procedure of Congress, attempted fraud of United States and conspiracy to present false electoral testimony".
For them, he asks that Trump not only be prosecuted by the judiciary
cia, but also disqualified from holding public office in the future.
The committee's recommendations are not binding -it does not have the power to impute-, but they are loaded with enormous symbolic weight for being the first in which criminal responsibility is demanded for a former president and
the creation of a "formal mechanism" that prevents him from holding any federal or state office is advised.
The arguments of the legislators -seven Democrats and two Republicans- are based on a monumental 845-page document that includes the testimonies of a thousand people related to the riots, from relatives and advisers from the former president's circle to policemen who tried in vain to contain the mob at the gates of Congress.
Most agree in pointing to the former president as
responsible for one of the biggest attacks on democracy in the US, which also left five dead and 140 injured.
To begin with, the report establishes that Trump premeditatedly lied when claiming victory in the elections, launching
false allegations of large-scale fraud
that they did not even endorse their own lawyers and pressuring their vice president, Mike Pence, so that he did not abide by the verdict of the polls.
His rhetoric about an alleged conspiracy to seize power from him, the document warns, was the magnet that drew the assailants to the US capital.
The document cites a tweet in which the former president called
a "big protest" in Washington and encouraged protesters to come out and "be wild
».
He also attributes passivity to him when it comes to containing the violence in the Capitol, despite the alarms that the legislators sounded from inside the building.
Trump has revealed himself to be a toxic asset for the Republican Party, weighing down the results of a mid-term election that was going to be a ride for Biden's rivals - an unpopular leader who leads a country with rising inflation due to the energy crisis and polarized between extremes - and ultimately ended up giving the Senate to the Democrats.
The failure of the radical candidates he sponsored is now joined by a report on his guilt in the rebellion that morally undermines his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections
.
It is time for the Republican Party to turn the page on Trumpism and face a renewal that allows it to once again be a solid alternative to the United States.
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