“This is America, and this is our country
like his other colleagues who that day were on the front line in defense of democratic institutions and who with their dramatic testimonies revived the terror of that day: “We thought we were going to die, they yelled at us ‘Trump sent us'”, they recall , explaining between the sobs of the physical and psychological wounds still difficult to soothe today. In the corridors of the Capitol a surreal silence, broken only by the many men of the Us Capitol Police who follow the live hearing on their smartphones and closed circuit televisions. “They wanted to stop democracy, we will discover the truth”, promise the two presidents of the commission strongly supported by the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the bitter enemy of Trump who with the powers conferred on him by being the third position in the state has already allowed the former president to be subjected to two trials for impeachment. While now the final duel is staged between the two no longer young protagonists of American politics in recent years, she is 81, he is 75. Not so much at stake is next year’s mid-term elections, in which a large part of Congress will be renewed. , but rather the presidential elections of 2024 which could once again see the tycoon as a candidate. Squeezed, however, between the investigation launched in Congress and those of the judiciary. “On January 6 there was a coordinated attack in order to derail the democratic process and the peaceful transfer of power”, underlined commission chairman Bennie Thompson, explaining how the rioters “REPRODUCTION RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
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