US media reported that Donald Trump Jr, son of former President Donald Trump, testified before the House committee investigating the attack launched by his father's supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while a US official pleaded guilty to inflammatory conspiracy during the attack.
The committee, composed of mostly Democrats, has long been seeking from Donald Trump Jr. any information that could inform its investigation into whether his father was linked to the attack on the seat of the country's legislature.
The committee is investigating information that the Republican billionaire incited his supporters to storm Congress in an attack that culminated in months of unfounded accusations that widespread fraud led to his loss of the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden at the end of 2020.
The attack targeted the seat of the legislative authority in the country (communication sites)
Messages and information
In particular, the commission has messages that Donald Trump Jr. exchanged with Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, at the time of the attack.
In one of these short text messages, Trump's son told Meadows that his father "should condemn this shit ASAP."
And the House of Representatives’ investigation committee had previously heard statements from Ivanka Trump, the sister of Donald Trump Jr., and her husband, Jared Kushner, both of whom were close advisers to the former president.
The committee is doing its best to complete its investigation before the midterm legislative elections scheduled for next November, because if the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives in those elections, its fate will be in jeopardy, as the Republicans will not hesitate to dissolve it.
The committee, called the January 6 Committee, plans to hold public hearings in June.
admission of guilt
It is noteworthy that Agence France-Presse tried to obtain from both the committee and Donald Trump Jr. additional information regarding the testimony given by the son of the former president, but neither of them responded to its inquiries.
This comes as the US Department of Justice said that the leader of the North Carolina branch of the right-wing "Oath Keepers" group, William Todd Wilson, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of official proceedings for his actions before, during and after the storming of the US Capitol on January 6 last year. .
The ministry added, in a statement, that what Wilson and others had done was to stop the transfer of power by disrupting a joint session of Congress to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential elections.
The department indicated that Wilson agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation, becoming the third member of the right-wing group to plead guilty in court to charges related to the storming of Congress.