Republican Representative Liz Cheney assured this Monday that the parliamentary commission investigating the assault on the United States Capitol – perpetrated on January 6, 2021 – has sufficient information to be able to file charges against former President Donald Trump.
“It is absolutely clear what President Trump was doing,” as well as “several people around him. They knew it was illegal” and “they did it anyway,” said Cheney, vice chair of the House committee investigating what happened.
Cheney specified that – despite the fact that the committee has “a large number of testimonies and documents that demonstrate very clearly the scope of the planning, the organization and the objective” of stopping the counting of the electoral votes that certified the victory of Joe Biden–, there is still no unanimous agreement on the possibility of filing criminal charges against the controversial former president.
“I think what we have seen has been a great attempt, well organized and well planned with multiple tools, to try to nullify the elections,” the legislator told CNN.
“The objective was to try to stop the counting of the electoral votes, to try to interfere in that official procedure and it is absolutely clear that they knew that what they were doing was wrong,” insisted Cheney, who was reviled by her party after disagreeing with the official version of what happened in January of last year.
It is not the first time that this commission manifests itself in these terms. A month ago, during a court filing into what happened, he asserted that there was “a good faith basis to conclude that the president and members of his campaign participated in a criminal conspiracy.”
Among the Trump files identified are his former advisers, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, proposed by the committee to be charged with contempt after refusing to testify and present the documentation that was required of them.