A year and a half ago, Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. The former US President is now being summoned to testify under oath. This should take place in November. It is questionable whether Trump will comply. Because upcoming elections could change the cards again in his favor.
As announced, the parliamentary investigative committee into the storming of the US Capitol has summoned former President Donald Trump. In a recently published letter, the panel urges the Republican to testify under oath beginning around November 14th. Trump should therefore submit the requested documents by November 4th.
The House of Representatives’ nine-member investigative committee voted unanimously last week to subpoena Trump. Trump must be “accountable to the American people” for his actions, said Committee Chair Bennie Thompson of the Democratic Party at the time. Trump, who is flirting with another presidential candidacy in 2024, has not yet stated whether he is ready to testify.
However, a statement is fundamentally highly unlikely – especially since the investigative committee is running out of time: President Joe Biden’s Democrats are likely to lose their majority in the House of Representatives to Trump’s Republicans in the November 8 congressional elections. These should quickly wind up the committee of inquiry at the start of the new parliamentary year in January.
Hundreds of radical Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when Biden’s victory in the presidential election was to be finally confirmed there. In the weeks before, Trump had spread the false claim that he had actually won the election and had been deprived of a second term through massive electoral fraud. In a speech immediately before the Capitol was stormed, he called on his followers to fight “whatever the hell”.
The storming of the Capitol with five dead and around 140 injured police officers caused horror worldwide and is considered a black day in the history of US democracy.
