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Former US President Donald Trump faces new obstacles in his defense of himself in his impeachment case, especially after five lawyers, including two who were supposed to head his defense team, abandoned him. Pictures of his supporters' storming the Capitol building, in which a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives was held to confirm the victory of Joe Biden, will remain. The presidential elections stuck in the minds of all who saw it, as the storming caused a great shock not only in the United States but also in the world.
Trump was asking his supporters to come to Washington, DC, and challenge Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to force them to ignore the results of the November presidential election and keep the presidency in his hands.
In this regard, the Washington Post quoted some FBI investigators as saying that the file of Trump supporters storming the Capitol is the most dangerous since the attacks of September 11, 2001, stressing that they attach great importance to determining the extent of planning and coordination between the groups of intruders and revealing their motives. Their objectives are to distinguish between the participants in launching an "armed attack" against a headquarters belonging to the US government and the groups linked by the "political faith" guaranteed by the constitution.
The American newspaper also quoted officials in the law enforcement forces asserting that the bombs were found near the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington and were deliberately placed with the aim of distracting the police forces and pulling them away from the Congress building at the crucial moment to storm it.
For its part, The Wall Street Journal did not go far from this trend, as it revealed that the heir to the Publicex chain of stores Julie Jenkins Vasily, one of the most prominent funders of the Trump election campaign, donated about 300 thousand dollars to fund the gathering that preceded the storming of Trump supporters of the Capitol.
According to the American newspaper that covers business, news and financial issues in the United States and the world, the far-right presenter Alex Jones facilitated the delivery of the money provided by Fansley, which formed the largest share in organizing that crowd, which amounted to 500 thousand dollars in the park where Trump spoke and urged his supporters to Fighting, noting that Jones personally pledged more than $ 50,000 in seed money to support the storming of Congress in exchange for a "high-ceiling debate of his choice."
The French Press Agency, in turn, quoted Democratic prosecutors in Trump's trial as saying in the transcript of their pleading published yesterday: “Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol building and that his intention to remain in power at any cost is a betrayal of a historical dimension,” indicating that they are seeking to make this trial "An example of history," according to their description.
According to a poll prepared by the American "Marist" Foundation yesterday and published by the "The Hill" news site, with the impeachment trial approaching in the Senate, 50 percent of Americans believe that the Senate should indict the former president for his role in fueling the riots on the sixth of last month in Congress building, killing five people, including a police officer, while 10 percent said he should be acquitted.
Trump's trial is scheduled to begin on the ninth of this month after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him on the thirteenth of last January in the wake of the riots and the impeachment issue focuses on his speech before and during the storming of the Capitol by his supporters who sought to block congressional approval of Electoral College results that confirm the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential elections that took place on the third of last November.
Nidal al-Suwaidani