With the report on the Capitol storm of January 6, 2021, the investigative committee in Washington not only ended its work, the 845-page work is also the end of 2022 and, for some MPs, the end of their time in parliament. Because on January 3, the newly elected House of Representatives will meet. The recommendations of the committee members are therefore not very considerate: Ex-US President Donald Trump should no longer be allowed to hold public office in the future, according to the report.
He is considered to be the linchpin of what was considered a coup attempt two years ago. According to the 14th Amendment, someone who swore an oath to the Constitution but then participated in an insurrection against the Constitution or supported enemies of the Constitution could be barred from holding public office in the future, the document said.
The committee is calling on the US Congress to consider whether the individuals named in the final report — including some of his associates along with Trump — can be constitutionally barred from holding public office at the state or state level. Trump has already announced that he wants to run again as a Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
The recommendation to ban the ex-president from political life is one of a total of eleven suggestions by the committee to ensure that an uprising against US democracy and the peaceful transfer of power like the one on January 6th does not happen again.
Here are some of the committee’s recommendations:
Sources: DPA, AFP, “The Hill”, Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry
