White House Publishes Jan. 6 Anniversary Page Recasting Capitol Attack as 'Peaceful Protest'

Overview

• The new page on WhiteHouse.gov, posted on Jan. 6, 2026, presents an alternative timeline labeling the events a peaceful protest and calling participants patriotic Americans.
• It asserts the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and portrays prosecutions as politically driven, while highlighting Trump’s pardons and commutations for hundreds of defendants.
• The content assigns blame to Nancy Pelosi for security failures and alleges partisan misconduct by House investigators, including claims of deleted records and coached testimony.
• The page states no security officers died and centers Ashli Babbitt’s shooting, a depiction that conflicts with reporting of multiple deaths and roughly 140 injured officers during the attack.
• Major U.S. news organizations criticized the site as an effort to rewrite the record and emphasized the significance of hosting the narrative on an official government domain.