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* '''2022-10-09''' [https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-brags-jan-6-was-his-biggest-crowd-ever Donald Trump Brags Jan. 6 Was His Biggest Crowd Ever] {{fmt/quote|[[Donald Trump|Trump]] proudly reminisced about Jan 6. “You know the biggest crowd I have ever seen? [[January 6 insurrection|January 6]]. And you never hear that. It was the biggest. And they were there largely to protest a corrupt and rigged and stolen election.” “It was the biggest crowd, I believe, I have ever spoken to,” he concluded.}} He is at least maintaining the facade of believing the lie.
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* '''2022-09-28''' [https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40970918.html Capitol rioter branded ‘one-man wrecking ball’ jailed for seven years] ([https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109074824806138081 h/t]) {{fmt/quote|A judge has sentenced US capitol rioter Kyle Young to seven years in prison, calling him a “one-man wrecking ball” who helped in a sustained assault on a police officer.}}
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* '''2022-09-06''' [https://www.themarysue.com/couy-griffin-insurrectionist-removed-from-office/ For the First Time in 150 Years, an Elected Official Was Removed From Office for Participating in Insurrection] [[Cuoy Griffin]]
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* '''2022-08-11''' [https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/politics/elaine-chao-trump-cabinet-january-6-25th-amendment/index.html First on CNN: Elaine Chao, Trump's former Transportation Secretary, met with Jan. 6 committee as other Cabinet members engage with panel] The January 6 Commission {{fmt/quote|has recently interviewed former Transportation Secretary [[Elaine Chao]] and has been in talks with former Education Secretary [[Betsy DeVos]] as well as former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, multiple sources tell CNN. Chao and DeVos, both members of former President Donald Trump's Cabinet, resigned a day after the attack on the US Capitol and discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power.}}
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* '''2022-07-26''' [https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/top-pence-aide-testifies-grand-042314593.html Top Pence Aide Testifies To Grand Jury, A Key Uptick In Justice Department's Probe]: subject is Pence's chief of staff Marc Short; there are as yet no public details regarding the topics or substance of his testimony
 
* '''2022-07-24''' [https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/liz-cheney-donald-trump-january-6-cnntv/index.html January 6 committee could subpoena Ginni Thomas] {{fmt/quote|"We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. I hope it doesn't get to that. I hope she will come in voluntarily," Cheney said.}}
 
* '''2022-07-24''' [https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/liz-cheney-donald-trump-january-6-cnntv/index.html January 6 committee could subpoena Ginni Thomas] {{fmt/quote|"We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. I hope it doesn't get to that. I hope she will come in voluntarily," Cheney said.}}
 
** {{fmt/quote|What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? Sometime in the next couple years if it's convenient to the perpetrators and not too much of a deviation from the norms for those suffering from terminal Beltway brain!}} — OD Action newsletter
 
** {{fmt/quote|What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? Sometime in the next couple years if it's convenient to the perpetrators and not too much of a deviation from the norms for those suffering from terminal Beltway brain!}} — OD Action newsletter

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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.

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