Trump himself urged his supporters to march on the Capitol in a tirade outside the White House before the siege. “If you don’t fight like crazy, you won’t have a country anymore,” said Trump, among other incendiary statements. A week later, the House accused him a second time of inciting insurrection.
Trump was acquitted by the Senate, but his in-house trial featured an unprecedented video showing how close the protesters came to lawmakers and then Vice President Mike Pence. The managers of the Chamber’s impeachment also showed images of the rioters’ violence against the police officers who responded.
On Thursday, seven House committees launched a comprehensive investigation into how the federal government is dealing with the insurrection, which police officials have witnessed was exacerbated by the Pentagon to delay the deployment of National Guard troops and federal intelligence officials by providing insufficient warnings about the attack.
Prosecutors arrested more than 300 participants in the attack on the Capitol, and the former Justice Department investigation leader on January 6 said in an interview on Sunday that he believed the evidence would support an “seditious conspiracy” charge against some of the protesters. . The head of the Capitol police union indicated that about 140 policemen were injured in the insurrection.