Trump gives a list

At the hearing on the 21st, Moshan, who had been engaged in public opinion investigations, told his experience of being intimidated by Trump's supporters.

Mountain riots in Capitol revealed the black screen in the United States

The New York Times reported that the hearing in the past 3 hours depicts the most comprehensive picture so far, indicating that former President Trump has launched an attack on democracy. The testimony includes three Republican state officials and a former Georgia election worker. CNN said that several witnesses told the Special Committee that Trump personally participated in the efforts to propose a false election list in the key battlefield state, which is the key part of overthrowing the victory of the legitimate election. The Special Committee said the plan tried to replace the election of Biden with the election supporters supporting Trump.

The information at the hearing showed that Trump called the Republican National Committee Chairman Lenna McDeniel and asked her to discuss with the lawyer John Eastman on the plan. In testimony, McDeniel said that Trump hopes that if he succeeds in the legal challenge of the results of the wins, the Republican National Committee can help call temporary voters to vote. This will make it possible for Trump to select his "internal" election. According to the British "Guardian", the above evidence shows that Trump plans the "election coup".

The Special Committee said that the Republicans in Congress even pushed the alternative election plan a few hours before the mountain riots of the parliament occurred on January 6, 2021. Certification for the number of elections. According to the text message obtained by the Special Committee, a assistant of the Republican Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin, told Burns's assistant that day that Johnson wanted to give Pence a list of relatives from Trump from Michigan and Wisconsin, and Biden won in these two states.

On the morning of the riots of the Capitol, Trump's other allies, Azades, Republican members of Arizona, Andy Biggs contacted the State House of Representatives and Republicans Balls to see if he supported the cancellation of supporting Biden Voting of Arizona Elementary School. Bowers told Trump's personal lawyer Juliani at the hearing that Juliani confessed to him on the phone that they could not find the need for the election fraud evidence. Bowers also said that he questioned how to legally participate in the plan, and the response to Eastman was: "Get it, let the court solve it."

According to the testimony at the hearing, these officials and staff became the goal of intimidating and attacking Trump's supporters. Powers said that after rejecting Trump, a truck drove through the community where he lived, and the recording on the car claimed that Powers had pedophilia. Moss, who had been engaged in public opinion investigation in Georgia, accused of a lot of death threats. She was still afraid of leaving home. "My weight increased by 60 pounds, I didn't do anything, and I didn't want to go."

Active the 2024 election

The Guardian commented that the planned relationship between the false election person's plan is that this may be a crime. The Ministry of Justice is investigating whether to allege whether the Republicans who support Trump for pseudo voting documents, email fraud or to deceive the country. If Trump is confirmed to participate in this conspiracy, the former president may face criminal charges.

Before the hearing on the 21st, Trump issued a statement saying that Bowers said in a call with him in November 2020 that "the election results were manipulated." In this regard, Bowers refuted Trump lying. CNN reported that Trump, who was disappointed in the hearing, began to sprinkle anger on allies. He publicly attacked Pence, Pence's staff member, and former White House senior lawyer Jacob appeared at the hearing. Trump also complained that the leader of the House of Representatives McCarthy was incompetent and did not allow the Republican members of the pro -Trump to join the special committee.

The Fox News Network reported on the 21st that at the previous third hearing, a lot of evidence and testimony showed that Trump had pressured Burns and asked him to help overthrow the results of the election, but Pence rejected this request. Essence The Wall Street Journal said that Pence is paving the way for the election in 2024. The recent hearing specially shows that Pence and Trump drawn the clear line. Avoid the Constitution crisis, which is expected to become Pence's "selling point" in the future. However, CNN quoted a Trump consultant and said, "I don't think Trump will not let go of Pence in the short term. Frankly, Burnsiers will do things with a clear 2024 general election. Create trouble by yourself. "

The threat to democracy continues

"The United States is facing an unpleasant split picture," CNN said that at a hearing in Washington, a witness described Trump's plan to overthrow the election results. At the same time, in New Mexico, a group of Republican officials in Ultra County refused to recognize the results of the preliminary election in the middle of this month, on the grounds that the voting machine and some votes had problems. Joanna Ledgate, chief executive of the "United Action" dedicated to fair elections, believes that this is a sign of increasingly threatening US democracy facing American democracy. The US business inside websites commented that the hearing and the New Mexico election incident showed that the foundation of American democracy had fundamental cracks. "Seeing the impact of the parliament building was impacted, we felt that it was the darkest day. But the fact is that the threat to democracy has not ended on January 6. Since then, what we see is There is no riots on TV. "

Although the hearing would put a huge pressure on Trump, the Washington Post was pessimistic that if there was a chance, Trump would come again.The newspaper said that the democracy in the United States is disappearing. This country has reached such a dangerous moment, not just because of Trump.If conservative media and Republican elites have not normalized Trump's threat to democracy, Trump will not appear.In January of this year, a poll in the United States has shown that 2/3 Americans believe that American democracy is in crisis and faces failure."Jerusalem Post" commented that after Trump served as president, American democracy entered a dark tunnel. The hearing may provide a way to vent and get out of the darkness, but the committee was too party -oriented, and its arguments could not be extensive enough.Acceptance of the American public.The story of Trump's "attempted coup" publicly publicly brings national reconciliation and cannot reach a common determination to make things no longer happen.

● Special reporter in the United States Zheng Ke ● Our newspaper special reporter Chen Xin

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