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For the first time in 50 years, a US president has been called to testify before Congress.

This is Donald Trump, who will have to testify before the special Committee of the House of Representatives that investigates the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The decision, which has been made public today, was made last week in

a vote by unanimity of the members who are part of the Committee

, all of them Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans.

Last week, the former US president hinted on his social network Truth Social that, if called to testify, he

would go to court to prevent

it .

The announcement also comes just on the day that former Trump adviser

Stephen Bannon

has been sentenced by Justice to four months in prison and a fine of $6,500 (6,611 euros) for refusing to testify before the Committee. of January 6.

Last week, Trump also published a 14-page long letter criticizing the Committee, but without clarifying whether or not he would testify.

Bannon's conviction has not come as a surprise.

In July, the jury had found him guilty, and the sentence imposed by the judge in the case, Carl J. Nichols, is within expectations.

But the meaning of the process goes further.

Bannon, who has an undeniable talent for self-promotion, has presented himself as the creator and coordinator of a sort of "populist international" whose members would include Vox (which

denies any relationship with the former Trump adviser

), the French National Front, the Italian Northern League, and the movement in favor of Brexit in Great Britain.

The last president to be called to testify before Congress was Richard Nixon, in 1972. Nixon was then in office, and he refused.

Likewise, he presented only a minimum amount of the documents that Congress had requested from him for the Watergate case, of espionage of the Democratic opposition.

The case was taken to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the Legislative.

Nixon resigned before he had to testify.

Nearly 19 years earlier,

Harry Truman

refused to testify before Congress, successfully in his case.

The last American president who had to testify before the Legislature was William Taft, more than a century ago.

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