The group of US lawmakers investigating the attack on Congress by Donald Trump supporters will recommend impeachments, its chairman announced Tuesday.
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“We have made a decision on the lawsuits,” Democrat Bennie Thompson told reporters.
The head of the so-called “6. However, the Commission, the date of the 2021 attack on the Capitol, did not specify who might be targeted by those charges.
“We haven’t made a final decision yet, our options are on the table,” said official-elect Pete Aguilar, another member of the commission, during a news conference.
In mid-October, that panel cited Donald Trump to appear in its investigation. But the ex-president initially refused to testify.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of the former president’s supporters, convinced by his allegations of “election fraud,” sowed chaos in the temple of American democracy as elected officials vowed Joe Biden’s victory.
The Republican, who urged his supporters to “fight like devils,” was immediately impeached by Congress but acquitted thanks to his party’s senators.
The decision to indict him will ultimately rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland, who appointed a special prosecutor to independently investigate Donald Trump in mid-November.
That expert, Jack Smith, issued the first subpoenas to provide him with documents in states where the former president was pressuring election agents, the American press revealed on Tuesday.