Overview
- The White House unveiled a web page portraying many Jan. 6 defendants as patriotic, faulting Mike Pence and Capitol Police, and defending Trump’s sweeping pardons of roughly 1,500 to 1,600 people.
- House Democrats convened an unofficial hearing with police, former lawmakers and witnesses, followed by a vigil, as leaders decried ongoing efforts to recast the attack and noted a still-uninstalled plaque honoring officers.
- A new Democratic report cites dozens of pardoned rioters later charged with fresh crimes, warning that clemency for Jan. 6 offenders risks normalizing political violence.
- Pardoned former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio promoted and led a march retracing the 2021 route to the Capitol to honor Ashli Babbitt, drawing counterprotesters and a visible but limited crowd.
- Former special counsel Jack Smith’s testimony that the riot “does not happen” without Trump loomed over the day, even as Republicans emphasized security failures and the federal case was dropped after Trump’s reelection under DOJ policy.