Donald Trump faces horror week
Created: 12/19/2022, 12:28 p.m
By: Daniel Dillman
There is a risk of new charges and the publication of his tax documents - uncomfortable times for Donald Trump and his followers.
Final meeting is imminent:
investigative committee could recommend charges against Donald Trump
Further trouble for Trump:
US House of Representatives wants to publish tax documents from the former US President.
Truth week:
All the news about the committee of inquiry and Trump's tax documents in our newsticker.
Washington DC - Things are getting serious for Donald Trump.
Weeks of bad news surrounding the former US President may now be reaching a climax.
The parliamentary committee of inquiry into the storming of the US Capitol in early 2021 is holding its final public meeting this Monday (7 p.m. CET).
Lawmakers will decide whether to call on the US Department of Justice to open criminal investigations into Trump and several of his associates.
There are serious allegations in the room.
Donald Trump and his confidants are said to have called for an uprising and obstructed the authorities before and during the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The committee of inquiry will present its final report on Wednesday.
In the run-up, Adam Schiff, a member of the committee of inquiry, had already hinted at the US broadcaster
CNN
what the committee would recommend.
"I think there is evidence that Donald Trump committed criminal acts in connection with his efforts to overturn the election," the Democrat said.
The committee of inquiry into the storming of the Capitol is entering its final session.
Donald Trump is likely to become the central theme.
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Donald Trump is threatened with further trouble
But not only the committee of inquiry could have bad news for Donald Trump.
The US Congress is apparently planning something similar.
According to the US magazine
Politico
, the Democrats in the House of Representatives also want to publish Trump's tax documents this week.
As a candidate for the 2016 US election, Trump refused to release his tax records, breaking with a tradition that all candidates had followed since the 1970s.
A court ruled in November that Trump must make his tax records available to the US Chamber of Congress.
Trump had lodged an appeal with the US Supreme Court.
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For Donald Trump, this threatens a week of horror that will probably surpass the previous reports.
The former president was even criticized by allies for his “big announcement” that he would now sell digital trading cards of himself.
Polls also see Trump well behind his closest competitor, Ron DeSantis, for the Republican nomination in the upcoming US primaries.
(Daniel Dillmann)