This Saturday they are fulfilled three years since the violent assault on the Capitol in the United States. A key date since the North American country is immersed in the electoral campaign. President Joe Biden wanted to pay tribute in an event to the victims and injured during that January 6, 2021. But he has also taken the opportunity to attack former president Donald Trump, ensuring that the Republican’s efforts to return to occupy the White House in 2024 They pose a serious threat to the country.

“Democracy remains America’s sacred cause, is the most pressing issue of our time and that is what the 2024 elections are about. Donald Trump’s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. “He is willing to sacrifice our democracy and come to power,” the Democrat said.

For his part, Donald Trump has pointed out that they now have “a president who is a great danger to democracy”. “A massive victory in Iowa will send a thunderous message directly to the corrupt Joe Biden to the fake news media, many of them back there,” said the former president. However, the assault on the Capitol could deprive him of presiding over the United States again. The Supreme Court has accepted the case on the expulsion of the former president from the primary elections and his decision will dictate whether or not he will be able to participate in the 2024 presidential elections.

The assault occurred on the same day that Biden’s victory in the elections was ratified, riots that caused the death of five people and more than 450 have been sentenced to prison terms. “It was an assault, not only against the seat of popular sovereignty, but also against the foundations of US democracy“, Pedro Rodríguez, professor of International Relations, explains to laSexta Noticias.

Hours before the assault on the Capitol, Trump gave this speech: “We are going to march to the Capitol.” For this reason, he is accused of encouraging his followers: Bernie Thompson, the president of the Investigative Committee, has stated that the assailants “did it encouraged by the president of the United States trying to stop the attack.” transfer of power“.

It is not your only judicial process

But it is not the only judicial process in which Trump is involved since he has four open cases: the alleged attempt to buy the silence of actress Stormy Daniels; the accusation of taking classified documents to his private residence in Mar-a-Lago; and the attempt to alter the electoral result in the state of Georgia.

However, it is because of the assault on the Capitol that in Colorado and Maine has been banned from running in the primaries of the Republican party. “It’s going to be increasingly difficult for you to reach the magic number, 270which is what opens the doors of the White House,” says Rodríguez. The final decision rests with the Supreme Court, which “will try to say that either all states allow Donald Trump to be in the primaries or that no state can put Donald Trump in those candidacies,” as Carlota García Encina, principal US researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute, explains to laSexta.

Although he is positioned as a favorite, the result it’s not clear yet. “It is a wide possibility, but I believe it is not the only one, eight or ten months in North American politics it is a world,” adds García Encina. With the US elections getting closer, the assault on the Capitol continues to be the center of politics in the country 3 years later.