WASHINGTON – When a month has passed since the assault on the Capitol by a mob of followers of now former President Donald Trump, the country is preparing for the start next week of the second impeachment trial of the former president, accused of “inciting insurrection” and that he could end up disqualified for life from holding public office.
They have only passed 30 days and the political scene in the United States is not the same as that of that fateful day, in which five people died in the assault on the headquarters of the federal Congress, including a policeman.
Donald Trump is already out of the White House, secluded in his golf club in Mar-a -Lago (Florida) and isolated to communicate with the general public due to the veto imposed by the main social networks, after those events.
The capital is at peace
The presidential mansion is now occupied by a Democrat, Joe Biden , q A coup of an executive order this month revoked many of the measures adopted by his predecessor, from the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement, to the suspension of construction of the wall with Mexico or the paralysis of Washington’s support for the offensive in Yemen, among others.
And the two houses of Congress are now in the hands of the Democrats, when the Republicans lost control of the Senate.
After the tension of Trump’s last days in power, the climax of which was the assault on the Capitol while legislators were gathered to endorse Biden’s victory in last November’s election, Washington now looks like a haven of peace.
A speech by Trump, the basis of his impeachment
In their impeachment impeachment brief, Democratic lawmakers contend that “Trump voluntarily made statements that I encourage n and predictably resulted in illegal actions on Capitol Hill, such as’ if you don’t fight as if your life were not your life, you will not have a country for more. ”
Trump has denied that his words were inappropriate and has described the efforts of progressives to bring him to an “impeachment”, as the impeachment process is called in English, a “witch hunt.”
The beginning of the trial in the Senate it is approaching, but little is known about how it will happen, although if there is one thing that is known for sure, it is that Trump does not want to testify, as the “prosecutors” of the process want, which will be nine Democratic legislators of the House Baja, led by Congressman Jamie Raskin.
It was already announced two days ago by the former president’s spokesman, Jason Miller , in a statement released by The Washington Post newspaper: “The president will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding,” said Miller.
In this way he responded to the petition h made by Raskin in a letter sent to Trump’s lawyers, in which he requested that the former president offer his testimony under oath before or during the impeachment trial, due to the disagreement of his defense with the allegations made by the Democrats in the case.
This will be the second impeachment against Trump, the first president of the country to be subjected to two processes of this type and who was successful in the first at the beginning of 2020 for his pressure on Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, Biden’s son, for alleged corruption.
Attack on the Capitol leaves more than 200 detained
In parallel to the preparations for the impeachment, the Investigations by the judicial authorities on the events in the Capitol continue and have already left more than two hundred arrests.
According to data from the television network CBS, federal prosecutors have filed charges against at least 205 people – 24 women and the rest men- for their supposed role in those riots and have opened some 400 investigations for possible crimes.
In January, the country’s outgoing attorney general , Michael Sherwin, assured that the scope and scale of the investigations in those cases “are really unprecedented, not only in the history of the FBI, but probably in the history of the Department of Justice. ”
According to CBS, which cited FBI sources, of those arrested, at least 40 were arrested for attacking security personnel and could face sentences of one to twenty years in prison.
The suspects came from 40 states of the country, such as Texas, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey and Virginia.
Also, among the detainees there are 16 military veterans and 2 reservist soldiers, as well as 4 officers d e security forces, who have left their jobs since the assault on the Capitol.
The authorities have detected that at least 25 Suspects have ties to far-right extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and Texas Freedom Force, and to the conspiracy organization QAnon.
