Former president Donald Trump He criticized the House Special Committee’s investigation of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “partisan scam” and promised to “defend executive privileges.”
Trump insisted that the committee was used by the president to “distract Americans” from “failure.” Joe Biden And others Democratic Party In a statement issued on Wednesday through his rescue of the American PAC. The statement was issued after a Democratic-controlled committee announced that it had issued a series of requests for US government agencies to provide records of communications about the former president and his government officials before the attack.
“The leftist’special committee’ further exposed itself as a partisan scam and wasting taxpayers’ money. It requested that Americans be distracted from the historic and global disaster caused by the failure of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in a timely manner.” Trump said in his statement. statement. “Unfortunately, this kind of partisanship comes at the expense of long-standing privileged legal principles.”
“Executive privileges will be defended, not only on behalf of my government and the patriots working by my side, but also on behalf of the office of the President of the United States and the future of our country,” Trump added. “These Democrats have only one tiring trick-political drama-and their recent demands will only reinforce this sad reality.”
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Not long ago, the Special Committee of the House of Representatives announced that it had sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration and seven other major government agencies to provide records, including FBI with Ministry of Justice. These institutions have two weeks to meet these requirements.
The requested records may include communications from Trump, his daughter, and former advisers Ivanka Trump, Former vice president Mike Pence, Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani And other key figures in the orbit of the former president.
“The select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is reviewing the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack,” said committee chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss.) in a statement. “Our Constitution provides for the peaceful transfer of power. This investigation aims to assess the threats to the process, determine the lessons learned, and recommend laws, policies, procedures, rules or regulations to protect the future of our Republic.”
Trump etc. Republicans Repeatedly condemned the committee for being partisan and prejudiced. The committee is composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans-the House of Representatives. Liz Cheney (Wyoming) and the House of Representatives. Adam Kinsinger (Illinois), both of them bluntly opposed Trump and believed that he incited congressional riots.
Shortly before the end of his term, Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for an unprecedented second time on suspicion of inciting riots. Cheney and Kinsinger are two of the 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment.Trump was subsequently acquitted Senate Trials are conducted when the Chamber fails to reach the absolute majority required for conviction, although a simple majority supports the conviction.
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