The firstborn son of Donald Trumpwho shares his name, appeared before the committee charged with investigating the insurrection of January 6, 2021, when a horde of disgruntled Americans stormed the Capitol to protest the electoral victory of Joe Biden.
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The committee, ordered by the Administration Biden and belonging to Congress, has Donald Trump Jr in the spotlight since the investigation began, due to his proximity to his father on the day of the assault.
images of the president’s speech Trump in the White House, a prelude to the mobilization of his followers, they show his eldest son in the background, along with his partner. Shortly after the meeting ended, about 2,500 people demonstrated in front of the Capitol, and later invade it illegally and violently, armed and shouting.
Regarding his statements, the committee pointed to a series of text messages that the young man Trump Jr mandó a Mark Meadows, then White House chief of staff, during the insurrection. In them, he pointed out the urgency of that the then president stop the violence.
“You have to condemn this shit right away. The tweet is not enough. We need a speech from the Oval Office. has to be a leaderthis has gone too far and has gotten out of hand ”, read the text message from Trump Jr a Meadowsreferring to his father.
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Another of the committee’s priorities is to discern whether Trump Jr has information about his father’s involvement in the attempt to alter the results of the 2020 electionswhen his rival Joe Biden he won comfortably. It is a victory that the former president rejects, and attributes to unproven electoral fraud.
So, Trump and a group of allies, which included Steve Bannon Already Mark Meadows, hatched a plan to stop the counting of votes. According to the strategy, the vice president Mike Pencein charge of announcing the results, had the power to discard the results of seven statesand grant victory to the Republican leader.
the american channel CNN posted a second message Trump Jr. a Meadowsin which he described this sinister plan.
The former president’s son is also the last of the witnesses called by the committee that, supposedly, They were in the Oval Office with Trump. the morning of January 6. He was accompanied by his advisers and relatives.
So, Trump I call Mike Pence on the phone and tried, in a last ditch effort, to pressure him into upsetting the vote count. This was indicated by a White House agenda that the investigative committee was able to obtain.
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The statements of Donald Trump Jr before the committee lasted several hours, according to the media POLITICO. Previously, the panel had interviewed his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoylepresent during the rally on January 6.
Donald Trump Jr he is one of nearly 1,000 witnesses called to testify before the committee as its members try to compile a record of the worst attack on Capitol Hill in more than two centuries. He is the second son of Trump that he allows himself to be interviewed by the committee; in April, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner They also came to testify.
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