January 6 insurrection

About

The January 6 insurrection was an attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election, which would have been a violation of the democratic process in general. An organized and armed mob broke into the US Capitol building on 2021/01/06, shouting threats to kill at least two politicians (calls of "hang Mike Pence!" were most notable; there were also threats against Nancy Pelosi).

This event was merely the most visible manifestation so far of the Trump self-coup attempt now in progress and is widely viewed as a practice run for the 2024 election, when Trump plans to run for president again despite having lost in 2020. Ongoing Congressional investigation into this insurrection has revealed a lot of information about the nature of the coup in general.

Links

Reference

• House of Reps: Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol
  • membership
• DoJ: Capitol Breach Cases
• 2021-07-28 CNN: Fact checking claims January 6 was not an armed insurrection

News

• 2022-01-06 Trump turns on Hannity over Capitol-riot texts advising him to stop claiming the election was stolen «Hannity texted a White House aide saying Trump should stop talking about the election being rigged. Trump said: "I disagree with Sean on that statement and the facts are proving me right."» With Trump, it's always reality that has got it wrong.
• 2022-01-05
  • Merrick Garland on Capitol attack: 'The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last'
  • More police officers sue Trump over January 6
• 2022-01-04
  • Hoo-boy! These MAGA Jan. 6 takes are simply gobsmacking - insurrection denialism
  • Trump advisor blasted for trying to pass off their coup attempt as a righteous and legal effort «"In other words: He, Bannon, and Trump were in the middle of executing a legal coup, which the violent coup attempt foiled. Therefore, he, Bannon and Trump couldn’t possibly be responsible for the violent attempted coup. [...]Which is a defense, of sorts."» -- conservoid columnist Amanda Carpenter, writing in The Bulwark (h/t)
• 2022-01-02
  • NPR, eyewitness report: Trump still says his supporters weren't behind the Jan. 6 attack – but I was there «Moments earlier, Trump had claimed election fraud, called the results "bull****" and told the crowd to meet him at the Capitol. Thousands complied, many not even waiting for Trump to finish his speech.»
  • AP: Capitol rioters' tears, remorse don't spare them from jail (repost: TheHill)
• 2022-01-01 Former Trump advisor Bernard Kerik turns over revealing documents on 1/6 coup & its priorities «A letter from Kerik's attorney dated Friday indicates that Kerik wants to cooperate with the committee "and any investigators who are truly willing to move ahead swiftly and get to the truth."»
• 2021-12-21
  • NY Mag: Gina. Rosanne. Guy. What do you do the day after you storm the Capitol? A lot of the rioters apparently had no idea that people might not be fans of their coup attempt.
  • CNN: Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena
• 2021-12-17 CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 investigators believe Nov. 4 text pushing 'strategy' to undermine election came from Rick Perry The Committee believes that former TX governor Rick Perry was the source of a text message suggesting that NC, GA, PA, and other Republican-controlled states could override the will of their voters by sending pro-Trump electors "where conflicts and election not called that night". «Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson found the text striking in that its author "wanted Republican-dominated state legislatures not even to wait to see who had won the election—none of those states had been called by November 4—but simply to ignore the will of the voters, choose their own electors, and hope that the Supreme Court would hand the election to Trump as he had been saying for weeks it would."»
• 2021-12-15 Jim Jordan sent one of the texts revealed by January 6 committee Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan «confirmed to CNN that he forwarded a text to Meadows on January 5 that was sent to him by Joseph Schmitz, a former Department of Defense inspector general. Schmitz's text included a draft presentation arguing that Pence had the constitutional authority to object to the certification of election results from certain states.»
• 2021-12-14 'Need to end this call': January 6 committee reveals new text messages to Meadows on House floor
• 2021-12-13
  • January 6 panel unveils text messages to Meadows from Don Jr. and Fox hosts as contempt charge advances «Donald Trump Jr., Fox News personalities and lawmakers unsuccessfully implored then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 6 to get President Donald Trump to stop the violence unfurling at the US Capitol, according to text messages relayed by the House committee investigating the attack.»
  • Anti-Democracy PowerPoint Circulator Says He Met with Meadows, Briefed Lawmakers: Reports
  • Two Jan. 6 Organizers Are Coming Forward and Naming Names
• 2021-12-11 Inside the 38-page PowerPoint TrumpWorld circulated to justify election subversion
  • A similar version of the PowerPoint has been circulating online: archive.org
• 2021-12-10
  • Jan. 6 PowerPoint: Rep. Schiff says Trump aide demolished his own legal defense (video with summary)
  • Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup
    • reprint: yahoo!news
  • January 6 committee subpoenas Trump-backed congressional candidate and several others:
    • Max Miller, «former aide to former President Donald Trump and current Ohio congressional candidate»
    • Robert "Bobby" Peede Jr.
    • Brian Jack, Trump's director of political affairs
    • Bryan Lewis, who had a (the?) rally permit for January 6 outside the Capitol
    • Ed Martin, an organizer with the "Stop the Steal" movement
    • Kimberly Fletcher, who is tied to "Moms for America" and helped organize the January 5 rally at Freedom Plaza and the January 6 rally at the Ellipse
• 2021-12-09
  • Facing contempt charges, Meadows sues to block Jan. 6 panel's subpoenas
  • Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to keep January 6 documents from House committee «However, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals paused its ruling for two weeks so that Trump could seek a Supreme Court intervention. [...] Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington said in a statement following the ruling that "regardless of today's decision by the appeals court, this case was always destined for the Supreme Court."» -- because Trump's best card right now is endless delays, hoping to keep any more shoes from dropping until after the 2022 midterms.
• 2021-12-07 July trial set for Steve Bannon in Jan. 6 Capitol riot contempt of Congress case «A federal judge set a tentative July 18 start date for the trial of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon on charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a probe of the Capitol riot.»
  • discussion: Nextdoor
• 2021-12-06
  • 'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6 «Matthews' memo, sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month and» obtained by POLITICO, «includes detailed recollections of the insurrection response as it calls two Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day.»
  • Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun «January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.» (long read)
• 2021-12-01 Capitol Rioter Broke Into The FBI, Lost His ID And Backpack, And Had An Armed Standoff With Police: Timothy Desjardins, a barber shop owner from Providence
• 2021-11-30
  • Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory
  • Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows cooperating with Jan. 6 panel, averts contempt showdown – for now
• 2021-11-24 Jan. 6 Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk to Trump Family: Report
• 2021-11-23 WATCH: Alex Jones Says His Orders for the January 6th Insurrection Came from Trump
• 2021-11-22
  • Man charged with carrying loaded firearm to the Capitol on Jan. 6 -- just one of multiple murder threats against Nancy Pelosi
  • Fox News commentators resign over Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 series: when you're too far overboard even for Jonah Goldberg, it's time to reconsider.
• 2021-11-20 Remorseless Capitol Rioter Seals His Fate At Sentencing With Rambling Screed Before A Federal Judge: John Lolos pleaded guilty in August to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The Department of Justice asked Mehta to give him 30 days behind bars for his role in the Capitol riot.
• 2021-11-11 Jan. 6 committee to Mark Meadows: Testify Friday or risk contempt charges
• 2021-11-10
  • After tearfully begging for mercy, violent insurrectionist is sentenced to 41 months in prison
  • 'Forrest Gump' defense of 'QAnon Shaman' doesn't play, prosecutors ask for 51 months
  • Online Restaurant Review Leads FBI To Unforgettable Insurrectionist With The Most Gawd Awful Sweater «Hamner allegedly used an image of himself at the Capitol — superimposed with former president Donald Trump — as his profile photo on the right-wing social media app Telegram. FBI agents traced the Telegram account to a phone number associated with both Hamner's wife and a tiling business he runs in Colorado Springs. Additionally, a person who 'has had personal contact with Hamner' confirmed to investigators that he was the man seen in the videos and in an online business review Hamner left for a restaurant, according to court records.»
• 2021-11-08 Capitol rioter flees the FBI to seek asylum in Belarus «The FBI charged Evan Neumann with six crimes, including assaulting officers and violent entry...»
• 2021-11-05 There's no such thing as a bad day in court for Donald Trump when it comes to Jan. 6
• 2021-11-04 Liz Cheney's revelation on Jan. 6 committee interviewing 150-plus witnesses should terrify McCarthy
• 2021-10-29 Capitol Police officer resigns after indictment on obstructing Jan. 6 investigation
• 2021-10-25 Report claims 6 January organisers met with GOP lawmakers and were told of ‘blanket’ White House pardon
• 2021-10-24
  • EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff
    • reprint: Yahoo! News
    • analysis: (DailyKos, 10/25) Two Jan. 6 rally organizers are talking, and congressional Republicans should be nervous
  • Jan. 6 committee chair: 'No question' Capitol riot was a premeditated attack
  • Paul Gosar assured Jan. 6 protest organizers they would get a 'blanket pardon' while they were planning rallies: report
• 2021-10-22 Right wing streamer confirmed as Capitol rioter after deleted footage surfaces: yes, it was more violent than the denialist narrative claims
• 2021-10-10
  • Former N.C. congressional candidate verifies attendance at rally turned riot: Sandy Smith was a candidate for NC's first congressional district in the 2020 election. She lost to G.L. Butterfield.
  • No. 2 House Republican refuses to say election wasn’t stolen «Steve Scalise repeatedly refused to say on Sunday that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen»
  • Fiona Hill says January 6 was a "dress rehearsal"
  • US Capitol Police whistleblower alleges leadership failures on January 6
• 2021-07-28 CNN: Fact checking claims January 6 was not an armed insurrection
• 2021-01-05 Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN (via): PowerPoint presentation which came up in an email Mark Meadows gave to the Jan. 6 Commission
• 2021-01-03 CNN: In call, Trump demands Georgia officials 'find' votes to tilt election

denialism

• 2021-09-20 The January 6 Insurrection Hoax by Roger Kimball: «the January 6 protest at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. lasted a few hours, caused minimal damage, and the only person directly killed was an unarmed female Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police officer.»
  • reprint: 10/8 RealClearPolicy