Former US president and Republican candidate for re-election, donald trump, has called for the release of all Capitol attackers in January 2021 as well as the suspension of all ongoing proceedings with the rest after the Supreme Court significantly limited the conditions for obstruction of justice charges for which they were accused.

The court, which took a deeply conservative turn thanks to the nominations made by Trump during his time in the White Houseruled yesterday that in order to determine the charge of obstruction of justice it was necessary to demonstrate that the accused in question wanted to alter or destroy official documents, thus placing the burden of proof on the prosecution.

Right now There are 250 people accused of the assault on the Capitol who are charged for obstruction, to which must be added another 52 where the accused in question was convicted only of this crime and, of this number, 27 are currently in jail, according to the Department of Justice.

This Friday, during a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, He described those imprisoned as “hostages” and demanded their immediate release.The president, accused of instigating the January 6, 2021 assault after questioning the outcome of his electoral defeat to Joe Biden, urged the government to “release the January 6 hostages now for everything they have been through” since then.

“They have been waiting for this decision for a long time,” added Trump, for whom the Supreme Court’s ruling “has been a great response and a very good thing for all the people who have been treated in such a horrible way,” added the former president. , who has been promising for months that he will do everything possible to annul the proceedings for the assault if he returns to the White House in November.