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A one-year anniversary that turned into a fresh round of denial, dodging, and damage control for Trump and his orbit.
On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Trump-world managed the rare feat of making the day worse by trying to talk around it. The former president scrapped a planned event, then issued a string of statements that blamed everyone except himself while the White House and congressional critics used the moment to pin the insurrection back to his lies. The day also brought sharper blowback for allies still pushing the stolen-election line and for Republicans who kept pretending the whole thing was just another partisan argument.
The political and moral problem for Trump is not that his enemies remembered January 6. It is that every attempt to relitigate, minimize, or lawyer-language the riot only keeps the original scandal alive. A year later, the anniversary did not wash the stain away; it refreshed it.
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On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Donald Trump blasted President Biden’s speech, attacked the Jan. 6 investigation and repeated false claims about the 2020 election.
Biden and congressional Democrats marked the Jan. 6 anniversary by arguing that Trump’s false election claims helped drive the attack on the Capitol.
Far from learning a lesson, several Trump-world figures leaned into the same election mythology on the anniversary of the attack. The result was more proof that the lie machine behind January 6 was still humming a year later.