Associated Press
Inside the Capitol, reminders of the violence are increasingly hard to find.
Scars on the walls have been repaired. Windows and doors broken by the rioters have been replaced. And there is no plaque, display or remembrance of any kind.
Lawmakers rarely mention the attack, and many Republicans try to downplay it, echoing President-elect Donald Trump’s claims that the carnage of that day is overblown and that the rioters are victims.
In some ways, it’s like the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, that shook the foundations of American democracy, never happened.
“It’s been erased,” said Sen. Peter Welch. “Winners write history and Trump won. And his version is that it was a peaceful gathering. Obviously completely untrue.”
If Trump pardons rioters, as he has said he will do after taking office Jan. 20, that would be “putting an exclamation point on his version of what happened,” Welch said.
Some of the 1,250 defendants convicted of crimes after Jan. 6 called for the deaths of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president, as the mob violently overran police and breached the building. Some carried weapons, zip ties, chemical irritants, Confederate flags as they ransacked the Capitol and hunted for lawmakers. They sought to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s win over Trump, echoing the Republican incumbent’s false claims that the election was stolen.
But the disruption was only temporary. Congress resumed work that evening and completed its constitutional role.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges after Jan. 6, said “it was a very, very dark time.” Some lawmakers, she said, “do want to really put that behind us.”
There are different reasons for that, however.
Former Republican Sen. Mike Braun, a frequent Trump ally who left Congress this year and was elected Indiana’s Governor, said many in the party think the Justice Department “was weaponized disproportionately against” some rioters. He said many lawmakers who were in the Capitol on Jan. 6 want as much distance as possible between then and now.
“I think all of us remember it,” Braun said. But, he added, “If you’re starting to put plaques up, it looks like it even further emphasizes the divide on the issue. And maybe the biggest remedy is just to keep moving forward.”
Congress passed a law in March 2022 to require “an honorific plaque listing the names of all of the officers of the United States Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities who responded to the violence that occurred at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
The Architect of the Capitol was ordered to obtain the plaque within a year and permanently place it on the Capitol’s western front, where the worst of the fighting took place.
But almost three years later, there is no plaque. It’s unclear why or who is responsible for it. A spokeswoman for the Architect of the Capitol referred questions to the House Sergeant at Arms, who did not respond to requests for information.
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer of New York and then-Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky signed off on the plaque, according to a Senate leadership aide who was familiar with the process but was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York has also been supportive. A spokesman for House Speaker Mike Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.
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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
15 comments
Ron Ogden
January 4, 2025 at 4:57 pm
“J6 reminders fade in Capitol. . .”
But apparently not in the fevered mind of the AP or FLAPOL. And, as far as the Capitol riot shaking “the foundations of democracy,” it seems that democracy has stood up tall in the aftermath, as the people certainly expressed their will at their first subsequent opportunity.
On the contrary, the real threat to democracy was the elitist revolt against Joe Biden, engineered by Pelosi et al. This was a Latin American style executive action, a coup d’état against a presidential candidate CHOSEN BY THE VOTERS OF HIS PARTY.
JD
January 4, 2025 at 6:40 pm
The real threat is Project 2025 that Trumpian propagandist embraced.
Trump is a weather vein that points wherever the money is pointing and to keep his fat old butt out of jail. So stop kidding yourself and trying to make us believe the BS. He only sided with Musk so he would get some much needed cash.
Musk only sided with Trump on the promise of DOGE so he could strangle fiscally the agencies investing him for unfair and undemocratic practices.
He basically tried to steal the election in 2020 when he lost, and it went too far.
The real question is what are you getting from all this? Are you some brainwashed rube that’s too dumb to see it or you got fingers in the pie to make some scratch?
Tell us. We’re all ears.
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January 4, 2025 at 5:22 pm
“Never Forget” The Trumpist Propaganda it supposedily didn’t happen.
You know, Hitler had a minister of propagada…
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Earl Pitts American
January 4, 2025 at 6:07 pm
JD is hereby CHASTIZED for being a Dook 4 Brains Leftist Panty-Waist Liar Liar Pants On Fire.
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JD
January 4, 2025 at 6:35 pm
I know how to use a VPN so you can chastize all you want.
And don’t kid yourself, you are not up to the caliber of Goebbels.
You’re the Walmart Republican Minister of Propaganda Shitts the Paid Shill for FP.
JD
January 4, 2025 at 6:41 pm
Oh, and you spelled CENTRIST wrong. It doesn’t have an L in it. But for you LOSER does.
Earl Pitts American
January 4, 2025 at 8:18 pm
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*America while it really pains me to have to CHASTIZE these Dooks it is widely known that many of them dont care about the shame of being CHASTIZED by Earl and only the wanking [AKA masturbation Ban] will get their attention and bring them into compliance with “THE SAGE VALUES OF POLITE SOCIETY” JD is one of those “Special Dooks” that only respond to “The Dreaded and Most Feared Wanking Ban”.
Sorry to have to be so “Graphic”, America … but Get a Grip … I, Earl Pitts American, am trying to save America from “THE CURSE” OF “Dook 4 Brains Leftys” (like JD),
You Are Welcome America,
I do this not for Glory but for Truth, Justice, and The American Way!!!
The Sage Earl Pitts American
JD
January 4, 2025 at 9:22 pm
You do it for attention Shitts and getting paid as a shill. This post has already indexed.
I do it because I’m pissed off at rights being trampled under the guise of freedom.
Earl Pitts American
January 5, 2025 at 8:00 am
Good Morn ‘Ting America,
As you all can see, JD is on his knees and about to convert from his sad life of “Dook 4 Brains Leftism” and become normal by ascribing to the logic of stopping to undermine our Great Nation and become a “Sage Patriot Supporter of Our Great Nation” much like his hero, Earl Pitts American, lets all support JD’s “Transition” from being “A Rotton To The Core” and on “The Highway To Hell” “Dook 4 Brains Lefty” to a “MAGA SAGE PATRIOT”.
Thank you America, and shout-out to me, Earl Pitts American, for not giving up on JD. Welcome aboard to your new life of normallicy. And just think of the great influnce you will be on your childern and family. By showing them “The Sage Patriot Way” your kids are 97.333% less likely to engage in disgusting homertestical behaviour and your Beautiful Wife 12.753% less likely to engage in extra-marital sex with your neighbor’s husband and all those plumbers she has been calling while you, JD, are at work.
WIN WIN 4 EVERYONE:
Well except for all those plumbers, your neighbor’s hubby, and the Doctor who was planning to buy a new sports car by changing your Son to a girl and your Daughter to a dude.
Thank you, JD, you are now “A MAN” and at last a “SAGE PATRIOT”
IN CLOSING JD:
MAGA,
Earl Pitts American
*and thanks, JD, for vowing to never accuse The Sage Peter of running some sort of scammy show here with your “Former” wild and un-founded accusations. We forgive you, JD.*
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JD
January 5, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Good Evening, Shitts.
Your attempt at satire is as clumsy as your grasp of reality. If being a “Sage Patriot” involves bigotry, fearmongering, and juvenile insults, I’ll gladly pass. Patriotism isn’t about parroting slogans or demonizing others. It’s about working toward a better nation for everyone, something your rant utterly fails to grasp.
Your obsession with manufactured grievances and laughable statistics is more a cry for attention than a coherent argument. I’ll leave you to your echo chamber while I focus on things that actually matter.
F*cking MAGAt away, Earl.
Sincerely,
JD
Cindy
January 4, 2025 at 8:44 pm
Someone trying to take the geography of European Americans to a minority by 2050..
Lefties blaming whities
Creeping in terror.
Cindy
January 5, 2025 at 1:16 pm
But like all good explorers we must row forward