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Yes: investigators and prosecutors established that some people brought and other deadly weapons to the events and that at least some of those firearms were on Capitol grounds and, in some prosecution...
Donald Trump’s words and actions surrounding January 6, 2021 are tied by multiple official investigations and defendant statements to the Capitol attack, with the January 6 committee concluding he the...
No; the available reporting does not establish that personally said he wanted to hang , but multiple contemporaneous accounts show rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” a makeshift gallows was erected, s...
No reporting in the provided sources says told her lawyer that she lied about her ; instead, the record shows her testimony has been both challenged and defended, with critics pointing to and contradi...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse included explicit invitations to move toward the Capitol — phrases like and — alongside a memorable exhortation to and declarative claims the 2020 ...
The debate over how prosecutors and defense teams treat Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech splits into two principal legal arguments: that the speech can be evidence of criminal wrongdoing—includin...
The January 6 Committee concluded that former President Donald Trump played a central, leading role in the Capitol attack, finding he , and it unanimously voted to refer him to the Justice Department ...
Reporting establishes that the Trump campaign and related entities spent money tied to the January 6 rally and post-election fundraising that supported efforts to “stop the steal,” but sources differ ...
Criminal contempt referrals from Congress are a blunt tool that frequently end as political statements rather than criminal cases: since 2008 the House alone has held ten individuals in criminal conte...
After 2016, public clashes between Donald Trump and Dick Cheney were frequent and largely personal as well as policy-driven: Cheney called Trump a “threat to our republic” and a “coward,” appeared in ...
Donald Trump spoke at a "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6, 2021, sent social media messages that day, and released a short video as the Capitol was being attacked; his words and conduct that day are...
The Jan. 6 committee framed a step‑by‑step timeline tying Donald Trump’s post‑election actions — false fraud claims, a campaign to pressure officials and an effort to summon supporters to Washington —...
Video, journalists and fact-checkers agree that crowds at and around the U.S. Capitol chanted “Hang Mike Pence” on January 6, 2021, and a makeshift gallows and noose were visible outside the Capitol ....
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, “Save America” speech included a mix of scripted language (“peacefully and patriotically”) and unscripted, more combative lines — notably “We’re going to walk down to t...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech contained several . Supporters of Trump and his lawyers characterize much of that language as political rhetoric protected by the First Amendment and point to his...
The January 6 committee conducted public hearings in 2022 and collected testimony from over 1,000 witnesses, identifying several . The committee's December 2022 report concluded Trump “lit that fire” ...
Kristi Noem has been attributed with statements claiming roughly were issued to noncitizens or improperly processed during the Biden administration, but the documentary record in the assembled sources...
The January 6 committee concluded that claims about faulty election machines, widespread ballot-counting fraud, and votes cast by the dead were to overturn the 2020 result; the committee found that Tr...
The January 6 committee’s final report and subsequent summaries state explicitly that the January 6, 2021 attack amounted to an , identifying former President Donald Trump as the central driver whose ...
The documents and analyses you provided do not show that the January 6 committee report makes any explicit finding about Nancy Pelosi’s direct communications with the Pentagon; instead, recent comment...