The mob used a large ladder to try to enter the Capitol Building through the front door and clashed with the police.
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- The investigation into the U.S. Capitol riots began on Tuesday.
- On January 6, a group of people claiming to be supporters of former US President Donald Trump stormed into the Capitol.
- American lawmakers will hear the testimony of police officers involved in the incident.
A congressional team investigating the deadly U.S. Capitol rebellion began work on Tuesday in a highly politicized environment that threatens to undermine efforts to understand the cause of the January 6 attack.
Since the war of 1812, a group of Donald Trump supporters have stormed into the seat of American democracy. This is the most serious attack on the legislature. Six months later, the American public will hear the first testimony of a special committee, the committee. Has quickly become a partisan hotspot in Washington.
Legislators will receive first-hand information from police officers who were attacked by mobs who broke into the building, looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others in the corridors, and trying to prevent proof of Joe Biden’s election victory.
But the process is a mess. After Pelosi took unprecedented action to reject two candidates for minority leader Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leadership basically boycotted the select committee and cancelled its five appointments.
Pelosi did not leave the group with only Democrats, but unilaterally appointed two Republicans-Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger.
Both are strong critics of Trump. They voted to impeach him in January after the riots, and both were condemned by the party for refusing to support Trump’s baseless claim that the election was stolen.
Pelosi and others hope to establish a bipartisan independent 9/11-style committee to investigate the riots and their origins. Even McCarthy expressed support in January.
But as Republicans became increasingly worried that the investigation could cause political damage to their party before the 2022 midterm elections, and Trump himself expressed zero interest in renewing the riots, the party began to unite against the 1 In-depth investigation of the incident on June 6. .
Senate Republicans blocked the committee in May, arguing that multiple investigations had concluded on the riots and that hundreds of people had been arrested and had obtained extensive data on what happened.
The party tried to undermine the credibility of Pelosi’s subsequent select committee. McCarthy accused her of “playing with politics” because of the soaring partisan tensions on Capitol Hill.
McCarthy told reporters at an unrelated White House event on Monday: “In American history, there has never been a spokesperson who has chosen the other party, so they are pre-determining the results of the investigation.”
He also mocked Cheney and Kingsinger as “Pelosi Republicans” and said that the two Republican candidates she rejected-Congressmen Jim Banks and Jim Jordan-“have the right” to sit in the group. middle.
Antics
The spokesperson said that she welcomed McCarthy’s other three appointments, but when she rejected Banksy and Trump’s staunch conservative instigator Jordan, he cancelled all nominations.
But she now insists that the committee will continue to move forward-with or without more Republican participation.
“We must once again ignore the antics of those who don’t want to find the truth,” she told ABC on Sunday.
On January 6, 2021, supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump protest in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
“We will find the truth. This truth will be trusted by the American people because it will be done in a patriotic way, not a partisan way.”
At Tuesday’s hearing, police officers will be physically and verbally abused while defending the Capitol from mobs.
During or shortly after the uprising, five people were killed and dozens of policemen were injured.
Representative Adam Schiff of the Democratic Committee told MSNBC that he hopes the group will use the power of subpoenas to force witnesses who do not wish to testify to appear in court.
Schiff also stated that it will be difficult to complete the committee’s work before the end of the year, and the time “will depend on how many obstacles we encounter.”
