This Thursday marks a year since a group of followers of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol headquarters in order to boycott the recount of electoral votes that certified their defeat against Joe Biden.
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It’s been a year since U.S It was the scene of one of the most striking episodes that 2021 has left behind, the assault by an eccentric and violent mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump at the heart of his democracy, the Capitol in Washington, and since then the gap continues between Democrats and Republicans who prefer to look the other way, aware that their aspirations to return to the White House go back to the tycoon.
While Democrats scramble to gather evidence that shows, at least, the void intentions of former President Trump to curb some violent protests that he himself cheered moments before during an incendiary speech at the gates of the White House, Republicans, except for a few disgraced, choose to focus the debate on the unfounded accusations of electoral fraud to justify what happened on January 6, 2021.
Since the investigations began, more than 725 people have been charged by the Justice Department for their involvement in those incidents, some of which are part of dangerous, heavily armed far-right militias, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, while the special committee of the House of Representatives has taken statements from dozens of Trump associates.
The FBI has pointed out that there are detainees from almost every one of the fifty states that make up the country. The main accusation that the prosecutors have presented is that of illegally entering a restricted place, about 640; while there are 225 people with charges of assault or resistance to authority.
At the moment, some 165 people have pleaded guilty to at least some of the charges against which they have been charged, while 70 have already received a conviction, of which 31 have been imprisoned, including Robert Scott Palmer, punished with the greatest penalty to date, five years behind bars for assaulting several policemen during the riot.
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