While
the pool of Republicans in the US Senate succeeded in voting to get former US
President Donald Trump acquitted in the impeachment trial last week, but both
the major party were able to call for a bipartisan demand to support a
government pushed probe in the Capitol riots, when thousands of pro Trump
supporters clambered the Capitol building in Washington on January 6, reports
AFP.

Several US lawmakers have agreed that they want a special commission to examine the
events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol that left five people dead.

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“We need a commission like 9/11 to find out what happened to make sure it never happens again,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of Trump’s former president’s fiercest defenders, told Fox News Sunday

Here
is what the expected investigation can yield and what would be the implications
of this probe on Trump.

To begin with, an investigation like this will only add another item on Trump’s long and regularly growing list of legal hassles, which is now an even bigger deal as the former President is now a private citizen absolutely bereft of any legal or constitutional immunity that he previously had.

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The key and foremost fact is that a release vote is in no way equal to complete relief from the Capitol doings, the best example of it would be Senator Mitch McConnell the powerful Senate minority leader, who after voting to acquit the former president on constitutional grounds

“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office. He didn’t get away with anything yet,” McConnell said after the vote.

In addition to this, Trump is already being tried for various transgression like Tax evasions along with an insurance and bank fraud. Not to mention a criminal proceeding led by Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance, who has been fighting
for months to obtain eight years of Trump’s tax returns.

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Last
week, another prosecutor in Georgia said she was examining Trump’s attempts to subvert the state’s results in the November 3 election by exerting pressure on local officials to alter the vote count.

If it’s not enough, Trump is also a prominent name in several sexual harassment and assault cases.