Trump, the Beginning of the End?

Some of the former president’s followers face charges such as sedition; however, several accusations involving the powerful businessman, blamed for calling for riots and urging violence, seem to be stalemated in the bureaucracy of the country’s legal system.

Five members of the right-wing Proud Boys, including the group’s national leader, Enrique Tarrio, were charged with conspiracy for obstructing an official proceeding, that is to say, the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 presidential election.

Members of the right-wing militia Oath Keepers who participated in the attack on the Legislative headquarters could also be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for seditious conspiracy.

Former US Attorney, Glenn Kirschner, a professor at Georgetown University and legal analyst for networks, such as MSNBC and NBC News, justified the delay by saying that Trump is the “final target” of the Justice Department’s investigation into the violent event, encouraged by unfounded claims of alleged electoral fraud.

In all there are nine charges against the former president linked to the elections and for inciting that day’s riots, in which five people died and hundreds were injured.

What many are wondering is if these cases will be really examined in a timely and objective manner, that is to say, if this will be the beginning of the end of the Trump era.

The former president wants to return to the White House in 2024 and there are still no concrete legal conclusions about his share of responsibility for the developments that placed much-defended American democracy at stake.

The House of Representatives special commission that deals with the event began public hearings this week with the results of investigations of the attack on Congress, while Trump, in his defense, mobilized his Republican allies inside and outside the legislative house.