Assault on Capitol Hill: Trump to Supreme Court to preserve confidential documents

Donald Trump has appealed to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, to ask it to block the transfer of confidential documents that the commission would like to examine.

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Almost a year after the assault led by supporters of Donald Trump on the Capitol, a standoff between the former President of the United States and the parliamentary committee investigating his role in the events of December 6, 2021. Donald Trump has just appealed to the Supreme Court to ask it to block the transfer of documents that the commission would like to examine.

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These are hundreds of pages of internal White House documents now in the United States National Archives.

Part of the events of

are recorded there: who visited

while he was living the last hours of his term as president?

And who called him on that special day when an angry mob invaded Congress in Washington?

Elements that

, set up by American parliamentarians, wishes to consult, but Donald Trump is opposed to it.

The former president took legal action, which refused to block the transfer of documents and it is therefore to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States that Donald Trump is turning.

Keep your communications confidential at all costs

The former president of the United States is relying on a provision allowing a former president to keep his communications confidential, even after his term ends when the House of Representatives special committee was set up to assess the situation. role played by Donald Trump and his entourage in the attack led by thousands of his supporters on the seat of Congress to try to prevent elected officials from certifying the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in the presidential election.

Donald Trump hammers relentlessly that the last election was " 

 " from him and that he could

.

On January 6, he will give a press conference, one year to the day after the spectacular assault on the Capitol by his supporters.

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