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Trump's rhetoric before January 6

Trump's rhetoric before January 6, including false election claims and incendiary statements.

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Jan 6, 2026
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Did Nancy Pelosi turn down the national guard on January 6

A careful reading of contemporaneous records and multiple fact‑checks finds no evidence that then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi “turned down” or blocked the National Guard on Jan. 6; authority to activate the ...

Jan 26, 2026

Which passages of Trump’s January 6 speech were cited in court filings during his prosecutions?

Court filings in the prosecutions repeatedly point to a handful of striking passages from ’s Ellipse speech: prosecutors and many defendants cited his off-script admonition “We’re going to walk down t...