New York, Jan 7 (EFE) .- The New York Prosecutor’s Office asked the US Justice on Thursday to investigate the “legal guilt” of outgoing President Donald Trump for the assault on the Capitol by his followers, which he considered a “failed coup,” and he warned that giving pardons “under corrupt circumstances” makes him liable to prosecution once he leaves office.
“For months President Trump, his family and associates have fostered savage conspiracy theories that have led to these acts of terror and sedition … I call on the Department of Justice to immediately initiate an investigation of this attempted insurrection and to seek responsibility for fanning the flames that have led to this failed coup, “Prosecutor Letitia James said in a letter to Acting US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.
James also echoed press versions that suggest that Trump considers forgiving himself and, recalling that this would only free him from federal cases and not from potential investigations or state or local charges, pointed out that the president’s pardons “under circumstances corrupt could make him vulnerable to prosecution when he leaves office on January 20. “
The Democratic prosecutor assured that the country “cannot allow Justice to remain idle for two weeks” until the Administration of the president-elect, Joe Biden, takes office, although the most important decisions related to that investigation that it demands “should and should wait for the next attorney general to take office. “
James specifically asked that Trump, his sons Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric and the latter’s wife, Lara, be investigated for “instigating” the assault on the Capitol on Wednesday and demanded that their participants be identified, investigated and held accountable because the “violent incursion into government property with the express intention of undermining the certification of legal elections” violates federal law. EFE
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