Assault on the Capitol: what was Donald Trump's role?
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
ALEX EDELMAN AFP / File
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To see more clearly, the parliamentary commission of inquiry sent summonses to appear to four members of the close guard of the former US president.
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Mark Meadows
, then Secretary General of the White House, Dan Scavino, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Kashyab Patel, ex-member of the Defense Department have been close to Donald Trump and alongside or in close contact with the president on January 6.
The Congressional Commission of Inquiry wants to hear them on the course of this murderous day when a crowd of supporters of Donald Trump invaded the Capitol to disrupt the certification session of the election of Joe Biden.
The parliamentarians are also requesting a series of documents from these three former senior officials.
Steve Bannon, the former adviser who would have said the day before the assault that everything was going to "
go wrong
", is also summoned to appear.
Donald Trump himself invokes "executive privilege", a doctrine which allows a sitting US president and his administration not to reveal sensitive communications and documents if they threaten the functioning of the government.
Except that Donald Trump is no longer president.
And his attempt to restrict access to information as well as access to his former collaborators risks failing.
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