The U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, “criminally contempt” Congress for refusing to testify in the investigation. The attack on the Capitol On January 6th last year, This means submitting the allegations to the Ministry of Justice.
The Democrats in the plenary session of the House of Representatives advanced the resolution against Meadows There were 222 votes in favor and 208 votes against. Now, the charges against Meadows are forwarded to the Department of Justice, which must decide whether to call a grand jury to formally charge him with contempt of court. According to reports, contempt of court is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of 100,000 U.S. dollars. Congressional Research Service.
On Monday night, the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol declared its contempt for Meadows and revealed that Trump’s eldest son, Don, and people from the conservative Fox network, were shocked by the attack on the legislative headquarters.Specifically, Don Jr. and the three Fox hosts sent text messages to Meadows asking him Convince Trump to take the attack seriously And asked his followers to leave the Capitol.
“We need to give a speech in the Oval Office. You must lead now.It’s too far, it’s out of control“Xiao Tang said in the message to Meadows.
The text message read aloud by Republican Liz Cheney at the hearing is part of the package 9,000 documents provided to the committee by Meadows Before you change your mind and stop helping.
Meadows decided to stop cooperating on the grounds that his work in the White House should be kept confidential because Trump once invoked “executive privilege”, A doctrine that allows the President of the United States to prevent the spread of certain materials.
The far-right Steve Bannon tried to use the same argument but was unsuccessful and was found by the House of Representatives as contempt of court. Therefore, on November 12, the federal grand jury charged him with two counts of contempt.
The committee investigating the attack on the Capitol was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Democrat Nancy Pelosi. It is composed of a majority of Democratic congressmen, even though there are two Republicans—Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger-They disagree with Trump. Your task is to investigate the cause of the attack, who was responsible, and what measures can be taken to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
On January 6, about 10,000 people-most of them Trump sympathizers-marched to the Capitol and about 800 people broke into the building to prevent the current US president from gaining approval. Joe Biden, in front of the Republican candidate In the November 2020 election, 5 people were killed and approximately 140 agents were attacked.