Several lawmakers who echoed Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election at the time are central in the effort to derail Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to speaker — unswayed by Trump’…
By Zeke Miller, Mary Clare Jalonick and Calvin Woodward | Associated Press
Yet democracy’s vulnerability was equally on display at the Capitol as Republicans struggled to break their stalemate over the next House speaker, leaving that chamber in limbo for what should have been the first week under a GOP majority. At the White House ceremony, Biden described the violence in evocative and at times graphic detail — the officer speared by a flagpole flying the American flag, the beatings, the bloodshed and racist screams from rioters who professed to be pro-law enforcement as they overran police and hunted for lawmakers.
Yet many of the lawmakers who brought baseless claims of election fraud or excused the violence on Jan. 6 continue to serve and are newly empowered. Then, the insurrectionists trapped some lawmakers in the House chamber but never breached it. They held up national business for hours that day. At least nine people who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, died during or after the rioting, including a woman who was shot and killed by police as she tried to break into the House chamber and three other Trump supporters whom authorities said suffered medical emergencies.
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