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The attack began around 2 pm on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly after Trump finished speaking at the March to Save America rally, where he urged his supporters to proceed to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop the certification of the Electoral College results underway in a joint session of Congress.
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About Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) served Ohio’s 1st Congressional District the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995–2023, with a two-year hiatus from 2008–10. Prior to running for Congress, he served on the Cincinnati City Council for five years and as a commissioner of Hamilton County for another five years. Although Chabot had Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 … Read more
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About On Dec. 1, 2020, 37 House Republicans sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr about alleged procedural irregularities and fraud in tabulation methods that purportedly impacted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The congressmen called on the Justice Department to investigate these issues. The following representatives signed the letter: The Big Lie
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About On Dec. 15, 2020, a group of 26 newly elected GOP members of Congress signed a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding an investigation into baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. The representatives-elect who signed the letter claimed to have “verified” reports of fraudulent mail-in ballots, missing voting machine equipment, … Read more
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About Several outside advisors came to the White House on Dec. 18, 2020 for what ended up being an expletive-filled, six-hour-plus meeting with Trump to hash out election fraud conspiracies and strategies to keep the president in power despite his electoral loss. The extremists participating included attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, former Overstock.com CEO … Read more
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About On Dec. 21, 2020, a group of congressional Republicans and Trump administration staff members met with the president at the White House to plot how to keep him in power by preventing Congress from certifying the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) organized the meeting, according to email records … Read more
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On Dec. 30, 2020, an associate of Roger Stone named Jason Sullivan led a conference call with an unknown number of Trump supporters, urging them to “descend on the Capitol” a week later—on Jan. 6, 2021—to prevent the congressional certification of President Biden’s electoral win of the election.
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About On Dec. 28, 2020, Jeffrey Clark, a Trump loyalist within the Justice Department, drafted a letter pushing officials in Georgia to hold a special session of the state legislature and investigate supposed “irregularities” in the 2020 election. Clark collaborated on the letter with Ken Klukowski, another Justice Department lawyer and a legal analyst for … Read more
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The Eighty Percent Coalition (EPC) was founded in late 2020 by Cindy Chafian (formerly affiliated with Women for America First), largely to unite conservatives around shared beliefs such as questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential election, according to WUSA9.
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On Jan. 6, 2021, the U.S. House and Senate certified the Electoral College results of the 2020 presidential election during a joint session of Congress. Although the certification procedure is typically noncontroversial, in 2021 it was obstructed by scores of Republican members of Congress.