Congress lights Capitol Tower
Donald Trump rails against “mock court”
07/22/2022, 8:17 p.m
For hours, US President Trump watches as a violent mob rages in Congress. A subcommittee on what happened around the storming of the Capitol in January 2021 shows how unreasonable the Republican was even a day after the event. This has not changed in the present either.
Former US President Donald Trump has violently attacked the parliamentary inquiry into the Capitol storming, calling it a “mock court”. In the online network Truth Social, which he founded himself, Trump criticized the body as “corrupt and highly partisan”.
In a public hearing on Thursday, the congressional committee accused Trump of willful inaction when his supporters stormed the US Congressional seat in Washington on January 6, 2021. Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said the then-President refused for hours to recall the attackers — in violation of his oath of office.
The next day, Trump repeated his unsupported claim that his defeat by current President Joe Biden in the November 2020 election was a result of manipulation. “An election was rigged and stolen from me and our country. The United States is going to hell. Should I be happy?” wrote the 76-year-old, who is considering running for the White House again in 2024.
Trump questioned why the U-Committee hadn’t questioned the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the president, about allegations made against him. “Because they know the answer and don’t like it. A mock court!” Trump wrote. He was referring to allegations that on January 6, 2021, he tried to wrest control of his limousine from the driver to join the protesters.
In the meantime, the short message service, on which Trump has not been allowed to announce anything for some time, has been shared a video many times, which shows excerpts from a recorded speech by the then President on January 7, 2021. A day after the devastating attack on the US Capitol, Trump refused to speak of an “end of the election”. In the video recordings published on Twitter, he said: “I don’t want to say that the election is over” – although this was in the draft speech. In the speech, Trump announced that he would hand over power to election winner Joe Biden after the pressure on him from the storming of the Capitol had become too great.