Hours earlier, Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify in the committee’s investigation into the insurrection.

In a letter to Trump’s lawyers, the nine-member special panel demanded that the former president testify under oath, either on Capitol Hill or by videoconference, “beginning on or about November 14.” which is after the crucial midterm elections on November 8 – and continue for several days if necessary.

A series of documents was also requested, including personal communications between him and legislators, as well as with extremist groups, made on the day of the assault. The subpoena comes after this special panel voted unanimously on Oct. 13 to order Trump to appear before investigators.

“We recognize that subpoenaing a former president is an important and historic move,” commission chair Bennie Thompson and vice chair Liz Cheney wrote in the letter. “We do not take this measure lightly.”

It was unclear how the tycoon and his legal team would respond to the order, as he could abide by it, negotiate with the panel or simply ignore it. He could also challenge it in court. His spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.

The commission alleged in its letter that it has gathered “overwhelming evidence” that Trump “personally orchestrated” a campaign to reverse his own defeat in the 2020 election, including spreading false allegations of widespread fraud, “attempting to corrupt” the Department. of Justice and pressuring state officials, legislators and his own vice president to alter the results.

Lawmakers, however, say key details about the case are missing, and the only person who can fill those gaps is Trump.

Meanwhile, federal judge Carl Nichols sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison for refusing to testify, although he allowed him to remain free while he appeals. In addition, he fined her $6,500 as part of the sentence. In July, a federal court found him guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress: refusing to testify and failing to produce documents.

Steve Bannon, Trump ally and convicted of contempt of Congress, accompanied by his lawyer Evan Corcoran, leaving the court that sentenced him yesterday. Photo: AP.

Nichols recalled that the law clearly establishes that contempt of the legislature is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of one month in jail. The prosecution had asked for a six-month sentence, while the defense had argued in favor of a period of probation.

“Today was my trial day,” Bannon said defiantly as he left federal court in Washington. He promised that “on November 8 the illegitimate regime” of President Joe Biden will be judged, alluding to the mid-term elections. Protesters yelled at him “Traitor! Fascist!”

Asked about the sentence, Biden responded with disdain: “I never have a reaction with Steve Bannon.”

Alan Byerly, a Pennsylvania man, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for assaulting an Associated Press photographer and attacking police officers with a stun gun during unrest on Capitol Hill.

The Department of Justice assured that it urgently needs “more than 34 million dollars in additional financing” to maintain the investigation against those suspected of participating in the insurrection of January 6.

In this context, anonymous sources consulted by The Washington Post newspaper reported that the documents seized from the Trump mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, last August included highly confidential intelligence data that addressed Iran’s missile program and “described a job of highly sensitive intelligence directed at China.

(Taken from The Day)

The congresswoman launched those words when an aide informed her that the Secret Service – the police force that protects the US president – had refused to allow Trump to go to Capitol Hill to support his supporters, who were in full coup attempt.

Pelosi’s sentence was recorded on video by her daughter, Alexandra, who is a documentary filmmaker and was recording the ratification of the election result that Joe Biden won that day.

The video was broadcast Thursday at the session of the House Committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters.

The footage was overshadowed in the media by the vote to call the former president to testify before the Committee.

Today, Friday, Trump has tried to respond to the summons to testify with a 14-page letter in which he does not say whether he will go or not, although he insists again on his theory -never proven- that in 2020 there was fraud electoral.

But the video reveals how Pelosi and then-Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to prevent the assault on Congress.

Likewise, it shows Pelosi, once she had already been evacuated from the building, trying to mobilize the National Guard to come to the Capitol to restore order.

The images and sound reveal that, contrary to what Trump and several of his supporters in Congress have stated, Pelosi tried to restore order so that the election ratification process could continue.

(Taken from The World)

After a day of absolute terror, described by the country’s media as a blow to the heart of U.S. democracy, Vice President Mike Pence formally declared that Joe Biden had obtained 306 electoral college votes, more than the 270 needed to become the 46th President of the United States, reported Prensa Latina. The New York Times also reported that the current President had accepted the transition of power.

In a Twitter message, the new President wrote that he was honored and humbled by the trust that the people had placed in him and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “It’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,” he added.

Despite the fatal outcome of the show of force by Trump’s supporters and the outrageous images of the Capitol that circled the globe, the tycoon refused to condemn the events, and precisely because of his misleading and incendiary language was denied his basic means of communication: social media.

Twitter, Facebook and Youtube blocked his accounts and cancelled the content posted by the President. The first of these companies announced that it had temporarily blocked Trump’s account and warned that this measure could be permanent. The platform required the politician to remove three tweets for repeated and serious violations of its “Civic Integrity” policy, meaning that the White House occupant’s account will be down for 12 hours after he removes the messages, and if they are not removed, the account will remain blocked, which could be permanent if future violations occur.

Hours after the devastation in the U.S. Congress, via a video Trump called on his followers to keep the peace and return to their homes, while repeating, without presenting any evidence, that the elections were stolen.

According to Prensa Latina, the clip was removed by Youtube and Facebook, and the latter announced that restrictions on the President’s profile would remain in place for at least two weeks and perhaps “indefinitely,” while similar moves are expected on the social network Instagram, owned by the same company, CNN reported.

Social media operators are seeking and removing content that praises or supports the assault on the Capitol, calls to carry weapons to locations around the country, photos or videos of the rioters, and any attempt to organize more violence.

Donald Trump’s attitude was widely condemned not only on social media, but by multiple world figures, as well. According to former President Barack Obama, resident of the executive mansion from 2009 to 2017, history will remember the violence incited by the current President as a moment of “great dishonor and shame” for the United States.

“It was disgusting and heartbreaking,” said former Republican President George W. Bush. In the opinion of Bill Clinton, Democratic President from 1993 to 2001, that riot was fueled by four years of toxic policies that spread deliberate misinformation, sowed distrust in the U.S. system and pitted the people against each other. For his part, Senator Bernie Sanders stated that Trump would go down in history as the nation’s worst and most dangerous President.

Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, stated in a message on Twitter that the violation of U.S. constitutional order and disrespect for institutions promoted by President Trump to overturn the will of voters, mirror the shameful practices that the U.S. government has repeatedly employed around the world. He added that the acts of vandalism committed on January 6 “are an expression of the crisis of the system and the result of a long period of exclusion, manipulation, political irresponsibility and incitement to hatred.” Many world leaders and the principal media in the United States also repudiated the events.

According to The New York Times, the terror and chaos that shocked the nation caused the deaths of four persons, several police were injured and some 1,100 National Guard troops were mobilized.

In the face of so much uncertainty, many asked: Who were the people involved in the storming of the Capitol?

According to CNN, the mob mainly included members of QAnon and the Proud Boys, two extreme right-wing factions, which President Trump repeatedly refused to condemn during his election campaign last year.

QAnon supporters believe in an absurd theory about the existence of a clique of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who have infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and oppose President Trump. For their part, the Proud Boys are a nationalist, neo-fascist, all-male organization with ties to white supremacists, which promotes and engages in political violence.

One of the issues that attracted most attention was that many protesters were waving the controversial Confederate flag, a symbol of oppression, racism and white supremacy. And according to bbc News, since the mid-twentieth century, this flag has been used to expression opposition to civil rights movements.

The Washington D.C. police department released surveillance camera images of dozens of persons they are attempting to identify as part of their investigation of the riot, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also called for collaboration in identifying instigators of the violence.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)

The assault on the Capitol is the most serious attack in the history of the building that symbolizes U.S. power, since the British set it on fire, along with the White House and other government institutions, on August 24, 1814, after winning the battle of Bladensburg.

The sobering events may remind us of others in the confines of this city, like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, who was shot in the head while attending a performance at the Ford Theatre, the result of a major conspiracy in the context of the Civil War, or what took place March 1, 1954, when Puerto Rican patriots Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, and Andrés Figueroa forced their way into the House of Representatives chamber at the Capitol to draw the world’s attention to Puerto Rico’s colonial status and the U.S. government’s repression of the island’s independence movement.

What few in that country will mention is the danger still lingering after the night of April 30, 2020 when, very close to the White House, a terrorist fired an AK-47 rifle into the Cuban embassy, another violent act some may have forgotten, given the complicit silence of the current U.S. administration.

(Taken from Granma)