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Where were you on Jan 6th? We literally all saw him engaged with the group of armed insurrectionists and told them to “fight like hell”. He gave them comfort to do so for hours by not calling in the National Guard to protect our constitution breaking his oath of office. But I can understand how all you republicans want to ignore those facts. After all he’s your front runner.

This GOP, shined up turd doesn’t qualify to be president, even if the SCOTUS says he’s qualified, he’s not. Not even close.

The FBI is investigating reported threats against Colorado judges in Trump disqualification case.

So this is the Goper way now. Any ruling they disagree with is meet with violence against the law makers. Any reported GOPER negativity in the press is meet with violent threats against reporters. Putin is winning here. Hey peen…this is what communism looks like.

Say what you want but My eyes didn't deceive me. I watched as that damn fool of a president incited a riot and to me it was a clear attempt to steal the election.

He clearly incited a riot. His idiot followers listened to him and did what he wanted them to do and got into a load of trouble for it. Did he pay for their attorneys? I could care less about his 1.4 million votes.. He broke the law, it was happening right before our very eyes. we watched him do it.

Well the judges have reviewed the facts, probably more thoroughly and completely than any of us, and made a determination. If you dont like that it doesnt change the process and reality, neither does how many votes he did or didnt receive.

But the constitution be damned because so many people voted for him. Am I right?

You’ll never hear a mega goper say more people voted for Biden.

But they had no problem with trump winning in 2016 with less votes than his opponent.

Man, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC & NBC have you brainwashed. Seek help STAT!

He was convicted by the Colorado Supreme Court. They reviewed some crazy about of information and film and came to the conclusion that he was Guilty!

I wonder how this will play out

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN29B2UT/


Trump calls for peace, tells protesters to go home
Reuters
January 6, 20214:38 PM ESTUpdated 3 years ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for peace and told protesters to go home after hundreds of demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol building and sought to force Congress to undo his election loss.

Trump, in a video on Twitter, repeated an unsupported claim the election was stolen, but said "you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order."

Yeah hours after people were killed. We saw what happened. Stop shining that turd.

inaccuracies

People didn't break into the capital until shortly after 2 pm - Trump tweeted out within 35 mins to stop it (previous post) and did so 2x more before Biden addressed the nation several hours later (for the first time below).


1 person was killed. Sadly, the rest died from health-related issues.


Benjamin Philips died of a stroke around 1 after he got separated from his group of people before the police even started with tear gas or anything.

Ashli Babbitt was shot at 2:44 p.m. and died later

Kevin D. Greeson died at 2:05 from a (heart attack)

Brian D. Sicknick (officer) had two strokes from a blood clot at 10pm after the protest and died on the 7th

Rosanne Boyland died of a drug overdose and probably overweight & diabetes issues

The problem with your Faux News version of the peaceful demonstration that was like any other tourist day at the capital..... We have testimony from many inside Trumps inner circle all saying they implore him to do more to quell the violence. To do it quicker. And that Trump sat watching events and did somewhere between not enough or virtually nothing.

But you stick with your reinvented history and shout down the truth when others offer it.

Hell you even talk about the violence kicking off at 2pm, and have Trumps tweets that are timed 7.38pm.... And somehow you reckon that is excusing him. Ey Ey Ey.

Keep shining that turd bro. People where dying and being seriously injured while Trump and his supporters celebrated and watched it all unfold. Trump did squat to help stop it until it was too late.

Around 1 p.m.

Pro-Trump rioters – including members of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group – overrun the first set of barriers outside the Capitol and start rushing toward the building. Top White House staffers, including Meadows, are quickly alerted by the US Secret Service that the police lines are collapsing at the Capitol, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

1:10 p.m.

As he ends his speech at the Ellipse, Trump calls for supporters to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” and march to the Capitol. He also tells the crowd that he will be marching with them. Around the same time, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican and Trump ally, calls Hutchinson and angrily tells her not to let Trump go to the Capitol, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

1:19 p.m.

Trump arrives back at the White House. During the short drive back from the Ellipse, Trump becomes irate and demands to be driven to the Capitol, but members of his security team refuse to take him there, according to Hutchinson, who testified that she was told about the exchange by Ornato and another member of Trump’s security detail.

1:25 p.m.

Trump goes into the private dining room near the Oval Office, where he stays until 4 p.m., according to the committee which cited testimony from White House aides. Witnesses told the committee that Trump spent the afternoon watching Fox News’ coverage of his supporters attacking the Capitol. The chief White House photographer was told not to take pictures of Trump during this period, according to the committee.

1:39 p.m.

Trump calls Giuliani, according to phone records obtained by the January 6 committee. It is unclear what they discussed.

Around 2 p.m.

The Capitol goes on lockdown as some of the first rioters breach the building. Back at the White House, the White House Counsel Cipollone tells Meadows that Trump needs to take action to stop the riot, and that “something needs to be done or people are going to die,” according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

2:03 p.m.

Trump calls Giuliani again, and the call lasts for approximately eight minutes, according to phone records obtained by the January 6 committee. It is unclear what they discussed.

2:13 p.m.

The Senate abruptly adjourns, amid a debate over a GOP objection to Biden’s electoral votes from Arizona. Senators are evacuated from the chamber. Around this time, Trump speaks on the phone with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, who tells Trump about the frantic evacuation of senators.

2:14 p.m.

In one of the most infamous scenes of the insurrection, QAnon supporter Doug Jensen menaces US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who shrewdly steers Jensen away from the nearby Senate floor.

Around 2:15 p.m.

At the White House, Cipollone again tells Meadows that Trump should intervene. Meadows responds by saying Trump “doesn’t want to do anything” about the riot and that Trump agrees with the rioters who were calling for Pence to be hanged, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

2:24 p.m.

Trump criticizes Pence in a tweet, slamming Pence for refusing to implement his illegal scheme to overturn the election while presiding over the joint session of Congress.

2:26 p.m.

The Secret Service evacuates Pence from his office across from the Senate chamber, and he was eventually whisked away to a loading dock under the Capitol. The January 6 committee has said Pence came within 40 feet of the approaching rioters.

2:28 p.m.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, tells Meadows via text that he should “tell the President to calm people,” according to messages obtained by CNN.

2:30 p.m.

The House goes into recess. Lawmakers evacuate the area, and some take refuge inside the chamber, donning gas masks.

2:32 p.m.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who promoted many of Trump’s election lies, texts Meadows that “the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” according to messages obtained by CNN.

2:35 p.m.

Trump’s former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney texts Meadows saying that Trump “needs to stop this, now,” and offers to help, according to messages obtained by CNN.

2:38 p.m.

Trump tweets that the rioters should “stay peaceful,” but doesn’t tell them to leave the Capitol.

2:39 p.m.

Some of the first Capitol windows are smashed by Dominic Pezzola, an alleged Proud Boy who has been charged with seditious conspiracy. (He pleaded not guilty to charges related to the attack.) More pro-Trump rioters flood into the Capitol building after overrunning barricades, fighting past police officers, and climbing up the inauguration scaffolding.

Around 2:40 p.m.

A group of Oath Keepers – a far-right extremist group – weave through throngs of rioters in a military-style formation and enter the Capitol building. Several members of the group have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

2:44 p.m.

Pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt is fatally shot by a police officer while trying to break into the Speaker’s Lobby, which is adjacent to the House floor, while lawmakers were evacuating. At the same time, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican who supported nullifying Biden’s victory in his state, texts Meadows that “It’s really bad up here on the hill,” according to messages obtained by CNN.

Around 2:45 p.m.

Pro-Trump rioters invade the Senate floor and break into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.

2:53 p.m.

Donald Trump Jr. texts Meadows, “He’s got to condem (sic) this [censored]. Asap. The captiol (sic) police tweet is not enough,” according to messages obtained by CNN. Meadows replies, “I am pushing it hard. I agree.”

Sometime before 3 p.m.

Trump speaks on the phone with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who pleads with Trump to call off the mob, but Trump takes the side of the rioters, telling McCarthy that they seem to care more about the election results than he does, according to CNN reporting.

Around 3 p.m.

White House aides draft a statement for Trump to release, which would’ve condemned the violence and the “illegal” actions of the rioters, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. The statement was never released.

3:09 p.m.

Former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus texts Meadows, “TELL THEM TO GO HOME !!!,” according to messages obtained by CNN.

3:13 p.m.

Trump tweets that his supporters at the Capitol should “remain peaceful,” but again doesn’t tell them to leave the premises. At the same time, Trump’s former Health Secretary Tom Price texts Meadows saying, “POTUS should go on air and defuse this,” according to messages obtained by CNN.

3:15 p.m.

Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and senior adviser, calls the rioters “patriots” in a tweet, and tells them that “the violence must stop,” but does not say that they should leave the Capitol.

3:31 p.m.

Fox News host Sean Hannity, who promoted many of Trump’s election lies, texts Meadows, “Can he make a statement. I saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital,” according to messages obtained by CNN. Meadows replies, “on it.”

4:03 p.m.

Trump heads to the Rose Garden to film a recorded message. His staff prepared a script for him to read, which said, “no one should be using violence or threats. … Let’s respect our institutions, let’s all do better.” But Trump goes off-script and improvises most of his remarks, according to a witness, who later testified to the January 6 committee.

4:05 p.m.

Trump Jr. texts Meadows, “We need an oval address. He has to lead now. It’s gone too far and gotten out of hand,” according to messages obtained by CNN. A few minutes later, Trump Jr. sends another message saying, “Now Biden beating us to the punch.”

4:15 p.m.

Biden delivers a televised address, saying Capitol attack “borders on sedition,” and calling on Trump to tell his supporters to put “an end to this siege.”

4:17 p.m.

Trump tweets out a video, where he tells the rioters that “you have to go home now,” but he also praises them and repeats the lie that fueled the attack itself – that the 2020 election was stolen.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/politics/jan-6-us-capitol-riot-timeline/index.html

While you keep listening to FOX News who was successfully sued for $787.5 million for spreading election lies and their parrots. I mean if you wish to speak about who is brainwashed.

The whole Wiki entry from the 5th and 6th timeline


Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Shortly after midnight, former Houser Speaker Paul Ryan texts Liz Cheney: "I worry he [Pence] breaks but think he will not."[129]
8:57 a.m.: Steve Bannon calls Trump. They speak for 11 minutes.[130]
After the phone call, Bannon addresses his podcast audience: "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. We're on ... the point of attack ... strap in."[131]
Anika Collier Navaroli, a member of Twitter's safety team, says on an internal call: “I am very concerned about what happens tomorrow, especially given what we have been seeing. For months we have been allowing folks to maintain and say on the platform that they’re locked and loaded, that they’re ready to shoot people, that they’re ready to commit violence.”[132] (She later testifies that Twitter was reluctant to suspend Trump because he was one of their most powerful and popular users.)[133]
In the morning, thousands of Trump supporters gather at Freedom Plaza near the White House in advance of planned protests against the certification of Joe Biden as President-elect.[134] The first rally is the March to Save America (no marching) from 1–2 p.m., then Stop the Steal from 3:30–5:00 p.m., followed by the Eighty Percent Coalition from 5:00–8:30 p.m.[109]
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund holds a teleconference with top law enforcement and military officials from D.C., including the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and the National Guard; Sund later wrote no entity provided any intelligence indicating that there would be a coordinated violent attack on the United States Capitol by thousands of well-equipped armed insurrectionists.[135]
U.S. House Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) holds a teleconference with Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving; Sund tells Lofgren that the National Guard is on standby and that Capitol Police are well-staffed and prepared for the protests.[136]
After speaking with Representative Lofgren, Sund reiterates to Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) that Capitol Police are prepared.[136]
D.C. National Guard Commanding Major General William J. Walker receives new orders from Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy stating that he must seek approval from McCarthy and Defense secretary Miller before preparing to respond to a civil disturbance.[137] Previously, he had authority to respond without first seeking permission.[137][126]
At least ten people are arrested during the evening and into Wednesday morning, several on weapons charges.[138]
Federal Protective Service officers notice protesters trying to camp on federal property.[139]
DC Mayor Bowser writes letter to Acting Secretary Miller and other authorities that the District government is not requesting further operational help in managing the expected protest crowd.[140][141][142]
Representative Jim Jordan forwarded a text message to Mark Meadows. It said:
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all – in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916). Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.”[143]

Pipe bombs found the next day were placed outside the Washington DC offices of the RNC and DNC national headquarters between 7:30–8:30 p.m., according to the FBI.[144][145]
Trump made several calls to his associates at the Willard Hotel, where a command center or "war room" had been established in a set of rooms and suites.[146] Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, Bannon, Eastman, and Boris Epshteyn led the team. Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Bernard Kerik were also present. Trump called to tell them that Pence was refusing the Pence Card strategy that Eastman had proposed earlier in the day in an Oval Office meeting. He discussed ways to delay the certification in order to get alternate slates of electors for Trump sent to Congress, as he, Giuliani and Eastman had discussed by conference call with 300 state legislators on January 2. Trump discussed some topics only with lawyers at the Willard so as to preserve the confidentiality afforded by attorney-client privilege.[147][148]
9:46 p.m.: Steve Bannon calls Trump. They speak for 6 minutes.[130]
10:00 p.m.: Kayleigh McEnany texts Elliot Gaiser at approximately this time, asking him whether Pence has the power to object to the election results. She later told the January 6th committee that she was curious about this possibility because, earlier that day or the day before, she had overheard Trump discussing it in the Oval Office with an outside attorney (whom she believed was John Eastman) on speakerphone, while Corey Lewandowski listened in person in the Oval Office.[149]
Attack on the Capitol
At noon, Trump began an over one-hour speech encouraging protesters to march to the U.S. Capitol. At 12:49 p.m., Capitol Police responded to reports of an explosive device, later identified as a pipe bomb. At 12:53 p.m., nineteen minutes before Trump ended his speech, rioters overran the perimeter of the Capitol building, and at 2:06 p.m. they entered the building through the Columbus Doors.

Trump's tweet requesting the crowd to "stay peaceful" is sent roughly half an hour later, at 2:38 p.m. However, at 2:44 p.m., a Capitol Police officer inside the Speaker's Lobby adjacent to the House chambers shot and fatally wounded rioter Ashli Babbitt as she climbed through a broken window of a barricaded door. Minutes later, Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam activated all available assets of the State of Virginia including the Virginia National Guard to aid the U.S. Capitol, although the Department of Defense still had not authorized it. By 3:15 p.m., assets from Virginia began rolling into D.C.

An hour later, at 4:17 p.m, a video of Trump was uploaded to Twitter in which he instructed "you have to go home now". Fifteen minutes later, Secretary Miller authorized the D.C. National Guard to actually deploy.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Early morning (before 9:00 a.m.)
1:00 a.m.: Trump tweets: "If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency."[150][151]
1:13 a.m.: Ali Alexander, Stop the Steal organizer, tweets "First official day of the rebellion."
3:23 a.m.: Ron Watkins, imageboard administrator and prominent QAnon figure, posts a tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of orchestrating a coup against Trump. He also linked to a blog post which called for "the immediate arrest of [Pence], for treason."[152][153][154]
6:29 a.m.: Stewart Rhodes reminds the Oath Keepers that blades over "3 inches" are illegal in the city. He tells them to "[k]eep [the knives] low profile."[155]
7:25 a.m.: The National Park Service observes that people are hiding bags in trees to bypass inspection.[155]
7:29 a.m.: Courtney Holland, who later became communications director for the Republican Senate nominee in Nevada, tweets that she is walking to the Stop the Steal rally with Scott Presler, Megan Barth, and Rose Tennent. Those three people are scheduled to speak later at a different rally at the Capitol.[156]
7:30 a.m.: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows texts Representative Jim Jordan "I have pushed for this" but is "not sure it is going to happen," referring to Pence overturning the election results.[157]
8:06 a.m.: Trump tweets a false allegation of election fraud.[158]
8:07 a.m.: Secret Service countersurveillance agents reported that “members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor and carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks.”
8:17 a.m.: Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud and asks Pence to delay the electoral count:
States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!"[159][160]

8:22 a.m.: Trump tweets a request for Republican party officials to delay the electoral count.[158]
Rallies
9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.: At start time on permit for First Amendment rally "March for Trump" speeches,[109] the "Save America" rally (or "March to Save America") begins. Above the podium at The Ellipse are banners for "Save America March".[161]
Mo Brooks (R–AL) makes a speech about "kicking ass", asking "Will you fight for America?"[162][163]
9:02 a.m.: Trump asks the switchboard operator to call Pence, who doesn't answer.[164]
9:24 a.m.: Trump has an approximately 10-minute phone call with Representative Jim Jordan.[157] (As of late 2023, Jordan has not said what the call was about.)[165]
9:45 a.m.: A Federal Protective Service liaison officer informs the Capitol Police that more than the permitted 30,000 protesters are expected at the Ellipse, the Freedom Plaza permit was increased from 5,000 to 30,000, and the protest outside the Sylven Theater is permitted for 15,000.[139] According to Newsweek, "Six times as many protestors—as many as 120,000—would show up on the Mall on January 6, according to classified numbers still not released by the Secret Service and the FBI but seen by Newsweek."[166]
9:52 a.m.: Trump has a 26-minute phone call with speechwriter Stephen Miller about his planned speech for the Save America Rally later that day.[157][164]
10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.: Before this time, White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato informs Trump that authorities have spotted armed individuals at the crowd gathering at the Ellipse.[157] Ornato explained to Trump that some of his supporters "have weapons that they don’t want confiscated by the Secret Service” and thus they refused to pass through the magnetometers and had not drawn close to the Ellipse where Trump was scheduled to speak at 11 a.m.[167]
10:15 a.m.: Around this time, Tony Ornato, along with Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to Mark Meadows, inform Meadows about the armed Trump supporters.[157]
10:30 a.m.: Benjamin Philips splits from his group to park, not reuniting but later dying from a stroke at George Washington University Hospital.[168]
10:30 a.m.: 200–300 Proud Boys started their march down the National Mall towards the U.S. Capitol.
10:47 a.m.: Rudy Giuliani begins a speech in which he calls for "trial by combat".[157][169]
10:58 a.m.: A Proud Boys contingent leaves the rally and marches toward the Capitol Building.[170] (According to later testimony. a "couple of hundred" Proud Boys began walking east, "down the Mall...towards the Capitol" at approximately 10:30 a.m.)[171]
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.: The Ellipse, located south of the White House, is filled with Trump supporters.[159]
11:06 a.m.: "There is no official record of President Trump receiving or placing a call between 11:06 a.m. and 6:54 p.m.," Representative Elaine Luria stated at a public hearing a year later.[172]
11:23 a.m.: According to the final report of the House committee: "Three men in fatigues from Broward County, Florida brandished AR-15s in front of MPD officers on 14th Street and Independence Avenue. MPD advised over the radio that one individual was possibly armed with a 'Glock' at Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue, and another was possibly armed with a 'rifle' at Fifteenth Street and Constitution Avenue around 11:23 a.m."[173]
11:30 a.m.:
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller participates in a tabletop exercise on Department of Defense contingency response options for the D.C. protests.[174]
The motorcade of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris arrived at DNC headquarters. (Law enforcement would discover a pipe bomb at 1:07 p.m., only several yards away from where her motorcade had passed through the garage of DNC headquarters, and they would evacuate Harris seven minutes after that.)[175]
11:46 a.m.: Some Proud Boys, including Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, are gathered where Trump is about to speak.[176]
11:50 a.m. (approximately): From backstage at the Ellipse, Trump could see that TV viewers would perceive the venue as not filled to capacity. That was because about half of his 53,000 supporters refused to be screened for weapons by passing through the magnetometers and thus had not entered the area. Trump yelled (as Cassidy Hutchinson would later testify): “I don’t [[censored]] care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the [[censored]] mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Take the [[censored]] mags away.”[177]
11:57 a.m.: President Trump begins his over one-hour speech.[150][178] He repeats allegations that the election was stolen, criticizes Vice President Mike Pence by name a half-dozen times (though this wasn't part of his prepared remarks),[179] accuses fellow Republicans of not doing enough to back up his allegations, and states that he will walk with the crowd to the Capitol.[180]

A member of a group of Proud Boys east of the Capitol makes the White power gesture at 11:54 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.:
A Federal Protective Service briefing email reports that about 300 Proud Boys are at the Capitol, a man in a tree near the Ellipse is holding what looks like a rifle, and some of the 25,000 people around the White House are hiding bags in bushes.[139] The email warns that the Proud Boys are threatening to shut down the downtown water system.[139]
Between 12 and 1 p.m., the National Park Service detains someone with a rifle.[173]
12:05 p.m.: Rep. Paul Gosar tweets a demand for Biden to concede by the next morning.[181][182]
12:16 p.m. Trump tells the crowd: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Finishing his speech with "We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."[183][184]
12:20 p.m.: A Federal Protective Service officer writes in an email, "POTUS is encouraging the protesters to march to capitol grounds and continue protesting there."[139]
12:26 p.m.: Pence arrives at the Capitol.[150]
12:28 p.m.: A Federal Protective Service officer reports 10,000–15,000 people moving towards the Capitol down Pennsylvania, Constitution, and Madison Avenues.[139]

Pro-Trump supporters gathering outside the east plaza of the Capitol at 12:09 p.m.
12:30 p.m.: Crowds of pro-Trump supporters gather outside the U.S. Capitol building.[185]
12:45 p.m.:
FBI, Capitol Police, and ATF responded to the pipe bomb found outside RNC headquarters,[186] which had been planted the night before.[144]
Proud Boys arrive at the Peace Monument northwest of the Capitol.[150]
12:49 p.m.:
Capitol Police respond to a report of a possible explosive device at the Republican National Committee Headquarters, which is later identified as a pipe bomb.[187][185] A second pipe bomb at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee would be found at 1:07 p.m.[188] Buildings next to these headquarters are evacuated.[189]
A police sweep of the area identifies a vehicle which held one handgun, an M4 Carbine assault rifle with loaded magazine, and components for 11 Molotov cocktails with homemade napalm. Around 6:30 p.m, the driver was apprehended carrying two unregistered handguns as he returned to the vehicle. He is not suspected of planting the pipe bombs.[189][190]
Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, again, are caught on video in the crowd outside the Capitol.[191]
12:52 p.m. Some Oath Keepers, including Jessica Watkins, leave the Ellipse.[192]
12:53 p.m.: Rioters overwhelm police along the outer perimeter west of the Capitol building, pushing aside temporary fencing. Some protesters immediately follow, while others, at least initially, remain behind and admonish the others: "Don't do it. You're breaking the law."[193][194] By 1:03 p.m., a vanguard of rioters have overrun three layers of barricades and have forced police officers to the base of the west Capitol steps.[187]
12:57 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol Police barricade on the west side of the Capitol building has been breached by a large group.[139]
12:58 p.m.: Chief Sund asks House Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving and Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael C. Stenger to declare an emergency and call for deployment of the National Guard. Irving and Stenger state that they will forward the request up their chains of command. Soon afterwards, aides to Congressional leaders arrive in Stenger's office and are outraged to learn that he has not yet called for any reinforcement.[185] Phone records obtained at the Senate Hearings reflect that Sund first reached out to Irving to request the National Guard at 12:58 p.m. on the day of the attack. Sund then called the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time, Michael Stenger, at 1:05 p.m. Sund repeated his request in a call at 1:28 p.m. and then again at 1:34 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. that day.[195] The Capitol Police Board consisting of the Architect of the Capitol, the House Sergeant at Arms, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms have the authority to request the national guard to the Capitol, but had made the decision three days earlier not to do so.[196][197]
1:00 p.m.

East side of the Capitol at 2:03 p.m.
1:00 p.m.:
Senators and Vice President Pence walk to the House chamber.[159]
US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund calls D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Contee, who deploys 100 officers to the Capitol complex, the earliest arriving within 10 minutes.[185]
1:02 p.m.: Pence refuses to go along with Trump's plan to pick and choose electors, and tweets a letter[198] stating in part,
It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.

Pence had not shown it to the White House Counsel in advance.[199]
1:05 p.m.:
Congress meets in joint session to confirm Joe Biden's electoral victory.[159]
Acting Secretary of Defense Miller receives open-source intelligence reports of demonstrators moving towards the U.S. Capitol.[174]
1:07 p.m.: Authorities respond to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, following discovery of the second pipe bomb.[144][188] When police arrive, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inside.[188]
1:10 p.m.: Trump ends his speech by urging his supporters to march upon the Capitol Building:[200][174][201][202]
If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore....We're going to try and give them [Republicans] the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country...The Democrats are hopeless—they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

1:11 p.m.: First MPD officers arrive at lower west plaza to confront rioters approaching the Capitol
1:12 p.m.: Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R–TX) object to certifying the votes made in the 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona. The joint session separates into House and Senate chambers to debate the objection.[159]
1:14 p.m.: Due to the pipe bomb (see 1:07 p.m.), Vice President-elect Harris is evacuated from DNC Headquarters.[188]
1:17 p.m.: Trump's motorcade leaves the Ellipse.[203] The Secret Service does not allow Trump to go to the Capitol and drives him back to the White House against his wishes. Trump behaved angrily, according to multiple witnesses who testified for the House committee.[204][205][206][207][208][209][210] Two months later, Trump told journalist Jonathan Karl: "I was going to [go to the Capitol] and then the Secret Service said, 'You can't.'"[211]
1:19 p.m.: Trump's motorcade arrives at the White House.[157]
1:21 p.m.: "The Presidential Daily Diary...contains no information for the period between 1:21 p.m. and 4:03 p.m.," Representative Elaine Luria stated at a public hearing a year later. "The chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures because it was, in her words, 'very important for his archives and for history.' But she was told, 'no photographs.'"[172]
Trump watches TV (1:25–4:03 p.m.)
According to the final report of the January 6 House select committee:

"Here’s what President Trump did during the 187 minutes between the end of his speech and when he finally told rioters to go home: For hours, he watched the attack from his TV screen. His channel of choice was Fox News. He issued a few tweets, some on his own inclination and some only at the repeated behest of his daughter and other trusted advisors. He made several phone calls, some to his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, some to Members of Congress about continuing their objections to the electoral certification, even though the attack was well underway. Here’s what President Trump did not do: He did not call any relevant law enforcement agency to ensure they were working to quell the violence. He did not call the Secretary of Defense; he did not call the Attorney General; he did not call the Secretary of Homeland Security. And for hours on end, he refused the repeated requests—from nearly everyone who talked to him—to simply tell the mob to go home."[212]

Trump's aides confirmed that he watched the television coverage,[213] but Trump himself has refused to admit doing so.[214] Two months after the attack on the Capitol, he told journalist Jonathan Karl: "When I get back [to the White House], I saw—I wanted to go back [to the Capitol]. I was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. Secret Service didn't like that idea too much."[215]

1:25 p.m.:
Trump enters the Oval Office private dining room and stays there, watching Fox News, until after 4 p.m.[216] (Three months later, Trump acknowledged to a journalist that the Capitol police "did lose control" of the mob, but he claimed he did not hear of the attack while in meetings with his chief of staff and instead learned of it "afterwards, and ... on the late side" upon turning on the television.)[217]
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham texts First Lady Melania Trump: "Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness and violence?" She immediately responds: "No".[218] (Melania Trump didn't tweet at all on the day of the attack,[219] and did not tweet to condemn the violence until five days later.[220])
1:26 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police order evacuation of at least two buildings in the Capitol complex, including the Cannon House Office Building and the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.[174][221][222]
1:30 p.m.:
Capitol Police are overwhelmed and retreat up the steps of the Capitol.[159] Lawmakers see the police in the halls.[150]
Large numbers of Trump supporters march from the Ellipse 1.5 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol. Lawmakers watch their approach on online videos.[150]
1:34 p.m.: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requests via phone that Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy provide an unspecified number of additional forces.[174]
1:35 p.m.: In Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–KY) warns that refusing to certify the election results under false pretenses would push American democracy into a "death spiral".[159]
1:39 p.m.: The White House switchboard connects with Rudy Giuliani for 3 minutes and 53 seconds.[95]
1:49 p.m.:
Capitol Police Chief Sund requests immediate assistance from District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) Commander Major General William J. Walker.[174][137] Major General Walker loads guardsmen onto buses in anticipation of receiving permission from the Secretary of the Army to deploy.[137]
Trump tweets a video replay of the Ellipse rally where he'd wrapped up his speech a half-hour earlier.[150][223]
1:50 p.m.: D.C. Metropolitan Police on-scene incident commander Robert Glover declares a riot.[224]
1:51 p.m.:
Trump supporter Alex Jones speaks from a bullhorn to the crowd on west side exhorting them to remain peaceful and to "not fight the police". He directs them to "the other [East] side" where he claims they have a permit and a stage.[225]
Radio talk show host and former FEMA director Michael D. Brown tweets the baseless claim that the people breaching Capitol security are likely antifa, Black Lives Matter protestors, or other insurgents disguised as Trump supporters, and suggests the attack could be a psychological warfare operation.[226][227]
1:54 p.m.: Todd Herman, guest hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show, informs his large national radio audience of Brown's claim that the people breaching security are not Trump supporters.[226][228]
1:55 p.m.: Secret Service notified they are not going to the Capitol, after holding the motorcade at the White House for possibly doing so.
1:58 p.m.: Along the east side of the Capitol, a much smaller police presence retreats from a different mob, removing a barrier along the northeast corner of the building. Oath Keepers Kenneth Harrelson (later charged with sedition) and Jason Dolan had arrived at the east side of the Capitol "shortly before 2 p.m."[229][156]
1:59 p.m.: Chief Sund receives the first reports that rioters had reached the Capitol's doors and windows and were trying to break in.[230]
2:00 p.m.
C-SPAN broadcast of the Senate going into recess after rioters infiltrate the Capitol
2:00 p.m.:
The mob removes the last barrier protecting the east side of the Capitol.[187]
Alex Jones, rounding the north side of the Capitol, moves from the west side to the east side.[231]
2:03 p.m.: The White House switchboard connects with Rudy Giuliani for 8 minutes.[95]
2:05 p.m.: Kevin Greeson is declared dead after suffering a heart attack outdoors on the Capitol grounds.[232]
2:06 p.m. Rioters breach the new police line on the east side of the Capitol and go upstairs to the Columbus Doors, aka Rotunda Doors. Jones’s camera crew negotiates with USCP officers.[231]
2:10 p.m.:
The mob west of the Capitol chase police up the steps, breaching the final barricade and approach an entrance directly below the Senate chamber.[187]
House Sergeant at Arms Irving calls Chief Sund with formal approval to request assistance from the National Guard.[185]

Floorplan of the first floor of the Senate side of the Capitol. "A" indicates the location of the first breach into the building at 2:11 p.m. "B" indicates the location of a Capitol Police officer in a doorway before retreating up stairs at 2:14 p.m.
2:11 p.m.: Rioter Dominic Pezzola breaks a window on the northwest side of the Capitol with a plastic shield.[230]
2:12 p.m.: The first rioter enters the Capitol through the broken window in the Senate wing of the building,[230] opening a door for others.[187]
2:13 p.m.:
Entries in a National Security Council chat convey that "2 windows have been kicked in" and "Capitol is breached".[233]
Vice President Pence is removed from the Senate chamber by his lead Secret Service agent, Tim Giebels,[199] who brings him to a nearby office about 100 feet from the landing.[230]
The Senate is gaveled into recess.[187]
2:14 p.m.:
Rioters chase a lone Capitol Police officer up northwest stairs, where there are doors to the Senate chamber in both directions, as police inside the chamber attempt to lock doors.[187] The mob gets within 40 feet of Vice President Pence,[234] but does not catch sight of him because he has already been moved to safety one minute earlier.[230] Officer Eugene Goodman leads the mob to backup in front of a set of Senate doors while senators inside attempt to evacuate.[187]
Proud Boy Joe Biggs enters the Capitol building.[235]
Representative Gosar speaks to the House against certifying Arizona's electoral votes.
Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol has been breached.[139]
2:15 p.m.: Rioters use a hammer to break and open a door.[236]
2:16 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the House and Senate are being locked down.[139]
2:18 p.m.:
An official warns in a National Security Council chat that "VP may be stuck at the Capitol" if security doesn't reach a decision to move him within 2–3 minutes.[233]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) is removed from the chamber by her protective detail.[136][237] Representative Gosar continues addressing the House, despite the confusion, while ranking member Jim McGovern (D-CA) steps in as Speaker.[238]
2:20 p.m.:
The House is gaveled into recess and starts to evacuate.[159]
The National Security Council chat reports the breach of "Second Floor" and "Senate Door".[233]
2:22 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser, D.C. Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio, Director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Christopher Rodriguez, and leadership of the Metropolitan Police in which additional DCNG support is requested.[174]
2:23 p.m.:
Rioters attempt to breach the police line formed by barricades of bicycle racks. As a police lieutenant sprays the crowd with a chemical substance, rioter Julian Elie Khater raises his arm above the mob and sprays a chemical substance toward United States Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who dies the following day from a stroke.[239][240]
A conversation over Washington's Metropolitan Police Department radio: "We're starting to get surrounded. They're taking the North Front scaffolding", someone says. Another voice on the radio warns: "Unless we're getting more munitions, we're not going to be able to hold." A reply: "A door has been breached, and people are gaining access into the Capitol."[241]
Nancy Pelosi walks through the complex, speaking on a phone. She says that if Congress can't "finish the proceedings", the insurrectionists "will have had a complete victory."[242]
2:24 p.m.:
Entries in a National Security Council chat convey that there are "explosions on the rotunda steps" and "Service at the capitol does not sound good right now". The official who wrote this, when later interviewed by the January 6 House committee, explained the second comment: "The members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives...we came very close to either Service having to use lethal options or worse....they're screaming and saying things like 'say goodbye to the family'." (The committee did not reveal the official's name.)[233]
President Trump tweets "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"[159] When Twitter reinstated Trump's account in November 2022, this tweet was gone.[243] The U.S. House select committee investigating January 6 wrote that this tweet "inflamed and exacerbated the mob violence"; this assessment was part of the committee's criminal referral of Trump for insurrection.[244] Similarly, the committee wrote in its final report: "Immediately after this tweet, the crowds both inside and outside of the Capitol building violently surged forward. Outside the building, within ten minutes thousands of rioters overran the line on the west side of the Capitol that was being held by the Metropolitan Police Force’s Civil Disturbance Unit, the first time in history of the DC Metro Police that such a security line had ever been broken."[245] Within an hour after this tweet, Pat Cipollone complained to Mark Meadows that "we need to do something more. They’re literally calling for the Vice President to be [[censored]] hung." Meadows suggested that there was nothing to do, given that Trump "thinks Mike deserves it."[246]
2:25 p.m.:
Army Secretary McCarthy ordered staff to prepare movement of the emergency reaction force, which could be ready in 20 minutes, to the Capitol.[247]
Over the next three minutes, "rioters breached the East Rotunda doors, other rioters breached the police line in the Capitol Crypt, Vice President Pence had to be evacuated from his Senate office, and Rep. McCarthy was evacuated from his Capitol office", according to the U.S. House select committee on January 6 in the introduction to its final report.[248]

Ceremonial boxes containing the states' Electoral College certificates after being removed from the Senate chamber by Congressional staffers
2:26 p.m.: D.C.'s homeland security director Chris Rodriquez coordinates a conference call with Mayor Bowser, the chiefs of the Capitol Police (Sund) and Metropolitan Police (Contee), and DCNG Maj. Gen. Walker. As the DCNG does not report to a governor, but to the President, Maj. Gen. Walker patched in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, noting that he would need Pentagon authorization to deploy. Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army Staff, noted that the Pentagon needed Capitol Police authorization to step onto Capitol grounds. Sund began describing the breach by rioters but the call became unintelligible as multiple people began asking questions at the same time. Metro Police Chief Robert Contee asked for clarification from Capitol Police Chief Sund: "Steve, are you requesting National Guard assistance at the Capitol?" to which Chief Sund replied, "I am making urgent, urgent, immediate request for National Guard assistance." According to Sund, Lt. Gen. Piatt said, "I don't like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background", and that he prefer that the Guard relieve police posts around D.C. to allow police to deploy to the Capitol. Sund pleaded with Lt. Gen. Piatt to send the Guard, but Lt. Gen. Piatt said only Army Secretary McCarthy had the authority to approve such a request and he could not recommend that Secretary McCarthy approve the request for assistance directly to the Capitol. The D.C. officials were subsequently described as "flabbergasted" at this message. McCarthy would later state that he was not in this conference call because he was already entering a meeting with senior Department leadership.[185] Piatt contests this description of the call, denying that he talked about visuals and stating that he stayed on the conference call while senior Defense Department officials were meeting.[249] The Army falsely denied for two weeks that Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn—the Army deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training—was in this call. His brother Michael Flynn, a retired Trump National Security Advisor, had pledged an oath to the QAnon conspiracy theory, though there are no indications that Lt. Gen. Flynn shares his brother's beliefs.[250]
2:26 p.m.:
Trump calls Senator Mike Lee (R–UT), having misdialed Senator Tommy Tuberville (R–AL). Lee passes his phone to Tuberville, who informs Trump that Pence had just been evacuated from the Senate chamber. "I said 'Mr President, they've taken the Vice President out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go'," he recounted to reporters of his call.[251]
After receipt of a call from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser indicating that DoD had refused to send assistance to the U.S. Capitol, the Public Safety Secretary of Virginia, Brian Moran, dispatches the Virginia State Police to the Capitol as permitted by mutual aid agreement with D.C.[252]
Security video shows Secret Service moving the Vice President and his family to a new secure location.
The House is briefly called back into session.[253]
2:28 p.m.:
One of Nancy Pelosi's staffers whispered: "They're with...we need Capitol Police, I think—come into the hallway. They're pounding on doors trying to find her."[254]
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reiterates his request for National Guard support to help shore up the perimeter of the Capitol.[255]
2:29 p.m.: The House goes into recess again.[253]
2:30 p.m.:
Secretary Miller, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Army Secretary McCarthy meet to discuss Capitol Police and D.C. government requests.[174]
Shortly before this time, The Washington Times publishes a story by Rowan Scarborough falsely claiming facial recognition company XRVision identified antifa members among the crowd at the Capitol.[226][256] The Times corrects the story the next day after BuzzFeed News reports that XRVision threatened the Times with legal action over the story.[256] Before the correction, the story amasses 360,000 shares and likes on Facebook.[226]
2:32 p.m. Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham tweets Chief of Staff Meadows: "Hey Mark, The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home."
2:38 p.m.: President Trump tweets
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful![159]


West steps of the Capitol at 2:46 p.m.
[257]

2:41 p.m.: Tristan Chandler Stevens, Patrick McCaughey III, and David Mehaffie, having scaled the Southwest scaffolding and staircase several minutes earlier, fight alongside the mob at the Lower West Terrace. They try until 3:19 p.m. to enter the building. (They later stood trial together and were each convicted and sentenced to prison.)[258][259][260]
2:42 p.m.:
Rioters carrying flags walk down the hallways, kicking at office doors, chanting "Defend the Constitution! Defend your liberty!" and "1776!"[261]
The Senate Chamber is breached by rioters.
By this time, Senator Chuck Schumer is in "a secure location", and the Senate is locked down.[262]
In a "secure undisclosed location"—a small auditorium with about 50 chairs—Pelosi stands at the front of the room and asks how to maintain the impression of "some security or some confidence that government can function and that you can elect the President of the United States. Did we go back into session?" Someone replies: "We did go back into session, but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on tear gas masks to prepare for a breach." Pelosi, seeming not to have understood a key phrase, asks the person to repeat it. The person reiterates: "Tear gas masks." Pelosi turns and says to someone else: "Do you believe this?"[263]
Capitol Police radio: "We need an area for the House members. They're all walking over now through the tunnels."[264]
2:44 p.m.: Rioter Ashli Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police while attempting to force entry into the Speaker's Lobby adjacent to the House chambers by climbing through a window that led to the House floor.[265][247]
2:45 p.m.:
Federal Protective Service officers report, "Shots fired 2nd floor house side inside the capitol."[139]
Jessica Watkins, later acquitted of seditious conspiracy,[266] and Donovan Crowl, later convicted of conspiracy,[267][268][269] enter the Capitol building.[270]
Shortly after this time, some people break into Nancy Pelosi's office and scrawl a message for her: "WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN".[271]
2:47 p.m.: A large group of people presses against an outer door. One says: "Here we go. Here's the next rush! There's a push inside, with resistance!"[272]
2:49 p.m.:
After discussion with his chief of staff, Clark Mercer, the Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, activates all available assets of the State of Virginia including the Virginia National Guard to aid the US Capitol. Authorization from DoD required for legal deployment of Virginia National Guard in D.C. was not granted.[252][273]
Trump aide Robert Gabriel texts: “Potus im sure is loving this.”[274]
2:53 p.m. Donald Trump Jr. tweets to Meadows: "He's got to condem [sic] this [censored]. Asap.The captiol [sic] police tweet is not enough. "
2:57 p.m.: A rioter, inches away from a Metropolitan police officer, yells: "Bring her out. Bring her out here. We're coming in if you don't bring her out."[275]
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.: Chuck Schumer, seated with Nancy Pelosi, tells her: "I'm gonna call up the effin' Secretary of DoD." Then, speaking on the phone to Christopher Miller, acting Secretary of Defense, he says: "We have some Senators who are still in their hideaways. They need massive personnel now. Can you get the Maryland National Guard to come too?" Nancy Pelosi then speaks into Schumer's phone, telling Miller she plans to call the DC mayor to learn what other backup may have already been called. (She credits House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, standing behind her, for that advice.)[276]
3:04 p.m.: Secretary Miller, with advice from senior Defense leadership, formally approves "activation" of the 1,100 soldiers in the DCNG. Army Secretary McCarthy orders the DCNG to begin full "mobilization".[174] (However, it will be another hour and a half before Miller approves an "operational plan" for the DCNG's deployment to the Capitol.)[277][185]
Duration: 31 seconds.0:31
Video posted by Senator Bill Cassidy (R–LA) to Twitter at 3:10 p.m.
3:05 p.m.: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R–CA) started a phone-in interview on live TV with WUSA. McCarthy said he had called the president to urge him to "calm people down" and in reply the president had sent out a tweet.[278] Months later, McCarthy would claim to police that, based on his phone call with Trump, it wasn't obvious to him that Trump was aware of the violence inside the Capitol at the time.[279]
3:08 p.m: Anton Lunyk, Francis Connor, Antonio Ferrigno—three friends who traveled from Brooklyn—enter the Capitol through the Senate Wing Door. They enter Senator Jeff Merkley's office. (Though they have no known ties to the White House, someone at the White House will call Lunyk an hour later.)[280]
3:09 p.m.: A rioter walks through the halls, singing: "Nancy Pelosi! Where you at, Nancy? Nancy! Where are you, Nancy? We're looking for you!" (Someone responds: "She's in jail!") The rioter resumes: "Nancy, oh Nancy! Nancy! Nancy! Where are you, Nancy? We're looking for you, Nancy!"[281] (This video was presented by prosecutors at the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.)[254]
3:09 p.m. former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to current CoS Meadows: "TELL THEM TO GO HOME !!!"
3:10 p.m.: Fairfax County, Virginia, deputy county executive Dave Rohrer informs county officials that county police are being dispatched to assist Capitol Police in response to a mutual aid request.[139]
3:12 p.m. Lunyk, Connor, and Ferrigno walk through the Capitol crypt and exit by climbing out a window.[280]
3:13 p.m.: President Trump tweets
I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you![159]

[282]
3:15 p.m.:
House Speaker Pelosi calls the Governor of Virginia. The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, confirms to House Speaker Pelosi that all assets of the State of Virginia including the National Guard are being sent to aid the U.S. Capitol.[252]
First assets from Virginia begin rolling into D.C.[252]
3:19 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Senator Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi about Mayor Bowser's request. McCarthy explains that a full DCNG mobilization has been approved.[174]
3:21 p.m.: Albuquerque Cosper Head pulls Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd, where Daniel Rodriguez tases Fanone in the neck. (In 2022, Head and Rodriguez are sentenced to prison for this.)[283] Fanone is carried unconscious back into the tunnel.[284]
3:22 p.m.:
Nancy Pelosi calls Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and asks if he's discussed sending the Virginia National Guard, noting that Steny Hoyer has already spoken to Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan and that Northam may need federal approval to send troops to "another jurisdiction".[285] When the call ends, someone in the room tells Pelosi that the Virginia National Guard has been called in, and Pelosi confirms that Northam just told her "they sent 200 of state police and a unit of the National Guard."[286]
Rohrer informs Fairfax County officials that the county is suspending fire, rescue, or emergency transportation to D.C. hospitals and "upgrading response and command structure."[139]
3:25 p.m.: Pelosi and Schumer sit together holding a phone and speak to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen. Pelosi acknowledges that rioters are "ransacking our offices" but says she is primarily concerned about "personal harm." Schumer suggests that Rosen, "in your law enforcement responsibility," persuade Trump to make a "public statement" to tell his supporters "to leave the Capitol."[287]
3:26 p.m.: McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser and Metro Police Chief Contee conveying that their request was not denied and that Secretary Miller has approved full activation of the DCNG.[174]
3:32 p.m.: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam orders mobilization of Virginia National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support according to Secretary of Defense timeline. Note inconsistency with statements of Virginia Governor. Statements of Virginia Governor indicate: 1) he authorized all forces under his command to help Capitol before DoD, and 2) DoD only followed after dissemination of his mobilization.[174][252]
3:36 p.m.: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets that National Guard and other Federal forces are headed to the Capitol.[159]
3:37 p.m.: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan orders mobilization of Maryland National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support.[174]
3:39 p.m.: Arlington County, Virginia, acting police chief Andy Penn informs county officials that Arlington officers are responding to the attack and have been absorbed into the Capitol Police response.[139]
3:39 p.m.: Senator Schumer implores Pentagon officials, "Tell POTUS to tweet everyone should leave." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D–MD, wondered about calling up active duty military.[247]
3:46 p.m.:
Leaders from both parties, including Steny Hoyer and Republican leaders Mitch McConnell, Steve Scalise, and John Thune, huddle around a single phone, appealing to the Department of Defense to send troops with a sense of urgency. The person on the other end says they cannot give a timeline for when the Capitol will be secured.[288]
Chief of the National Guard Bureau Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson has a phone call with Virginia Adjutant General Timothy P. Williams to discuss support to Washington, D.C. and is informed that Virginia National Guard forces have already been mobilized.[174]
3:48 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy leaves the Pentagon for Metro Police Department Headquarters in the Henry Daly Building.[174]
3:55 p.m.: Gen. Hokanson has a phone call with Maryland Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen to discuss support to Washington, D.C. and is informed that Maryland National Guard forces have already been mobilized.[174]
4:00 p.m.
4:03 p.m.: Trump goes outside to the Rose Garden so his staff can make a video of him calling for an end to the violence. He refuses the script they give him[172] and performs three unscripted takes of a short speech, which his aides record (rather than broadcast live).[289]
4:05 p.m.: President-elect Biden addresses the nation, calling on President Trump to "demand an end to this siege".[159]
4:08 p.m.: From a secure location, Vice President Pence phoned Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary, to confirm the Capitol was not secure and ask military leaders for a deadline for securing the building while demanding that the Capitol be cleared.[247]
4:10 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy arrives at D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters.[174]
4:14 p.m.: Hope Hicks texts Julie Radford (Ivanka Trump's aide): “In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter / And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed / I’m so mad and upset / We all look like domestic terrorists now.”[290]
Trump speaks (4:17 p.m.)
4:17 p.m.: Trump uploads an unscripted video to his Twitter denouncing the riot but maintaining the false claim that the election was stolen.[159] Of the three takes he gave, White House aides chose this one as the "most palatable option" for distribution.[289] In the video, Trump says:[291]
I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt. It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us—from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.

Riot continues
4:17 p.m.: According to the House committee's final report: "Giuliani began frantically calling the White House line the very minute that the President’s video went up on Twitter. Failing to get through, he called back, once every minute—4:17 p.m., 4:18 p.m., 4:19 p.m., 4:20 p.m. He managed to get through, briefly, to Mark Meadows at 4:21 p.m., and then kept calling the White House line: at 4:22 p.m., three times on two different phones at 4:23 p.m., 4:24 p.m., and once more at 5:05 p.m."[292]
4:18 p.m.: Secretary Miller, Gen. Milley, Army Secretary McCarthy, and Gen. Hokanson discuss availability of National Guard forces located outside of the immediate D.C. Metro area. Secretary Miller verbally authorizes mustering and deployment of out-of-State National Guard forces to D.C.[174]

Tear gas on the west Capitol steps at 4:20 p.m.
4:22 p.m.: Pelosi speaks to Pence on the phone about how to move forward with the election certification. She wonders if the Republicans could "confine it to just one complaint, Arizona, and then we could vote and...move forward with the rest of the states." She suspects it may be "days" before it is possible to enter the Capitol again.[293]
4:26 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland, as shown in bodycam video,[294][295] collapses and is taken to the hospital where she is later pronounced dead of an amphetamine overdose.[296]
4:32 p.m.: Secretary Miller authorizes DCNG to actually deploy in support of the U.S. Capitol Police.[174][277]
4:34 p.m.: A White House landline places a call to the cell phone of Anton Lunyk, a rioter who had entered the Capitol an hour earlier. The call lasts nine seconds. (The call was first publicly disclosed in September 2022 and is the only known call between the White House and a rioter that day.)[280]
4:40 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Maryland Governor Hogan in which the Governor agrees to send Maryland NG forces to D.C., expected the next day.[174]
5:00 p.m.
At some point during the "afternoon", Trump tried to call into Lou Dobbs Tonight, which aired every weekday at 5 p.m., but Fox executives decided it would be "irresponsible" to allow him on the air.[39]

5:07 p.m.: Giuliani reaches Trump by phone after 50 minutes of failed attempts. They speak for almost 12 minutes. (Over the next three hours until Congress reconvenes, Giuliani calls Senators Marsha Blackburn, Mike Lee, Bill Hagerty, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Dan Sullivan, as well as Representative Jim Jordan. On Senator Lee's phone, he leaves a voicemail intended for Senator Tommy Tuberville, asking him to "raise issues", "object to every State", and "get a hearing for every State" for the purpose of delaying the process "ideally until the end of tomorrow.")[297]
5:08 p.m.: Army senior leaders relay to Major General Walker the Secretary of Defense's permission to deploy the DCNG to the Capitol.[137]
5:20 p.m.: The first contingent of 155 Guard members, dressed in riot gear, began arriving at the Capitol.[247]
5:40 p.m.: 154 DCNG soldiers arrive at the Capitol Complex, swear in with the Capitol Police, and begin support operations, having departed the D.C. Armory at 5:02 p.m.[174]
Around 5:40 p.m.: As the interior of the Capitol is cleared of rioters, leaders of Congress state that they will continue tallying electoral votes.[159]
5:45 p.m.: Secretary Miller signs formal authorization for out-of-State National Guard to muster and deploy in support of U.S. Capitol Police.[174]

A police line push rioters away from the western side of the Capitol at 5:46 p.m
Around 5:45 p.m.: Police announce that Ashli Babbitt, the rioter shot inside the Capitol, has died.[159]
5:58 p.m.: Pence—calling from the basement of the Capitol, where he is standing with the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, Steven Sund—talks to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi by phone. He says that Sund "just informed me what you will hear through official channels": that the police expect to secure the Capitol soon, and thus Pelosi can expect to hear from Paul Irving, the Sergeant-at-Arms, who is "your point of contact on security in the House", about "the process for reentering" the building so that the leaders can reconvene the House and the Senate in about an hour. Pence says he also plans to speak to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Pelosi passes the phone to him. Pence repeats the message and tells Schumer he wants to give him a "heads up," although Pence said he's already informed the Senate and that Schumer can expect to hear directly from the Sergeant-at-Arms. "I hope that's helpful. I'll let you talk through regular channels", Pence says.[298]
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.: D.C. curfew comes into effect.[159]
6:01 p.m.: President Trump tweets
These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever![159]

When Twitter reinstated Trump's account in November 2022, this tweet was gone.[243] Trump "knew exactly what he was doing" in making this tweet—the U.S. House select committee on January 6 alleged when criminally referring him for insurrection—especially as a White House staffer had warned him not to tweet it since it would imply his complicity in the Capitol riot, yet "he tweeted it anyway."[248]
6:09 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland is pronounced dead at a local hospital after collapsing near a tunnel entrance on the west side of the Capitol.[299]
6:14 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police, D.C. Metropolitan Police, and DCNG successfully establish a perimeter on the west side of the U.S. Capitol.[174]
6:30 p.m.: Chief Sund briefs Pence, Pelosi, Schumer and other members of congressional leadership on the security situation, advising that both chambers could reopen by 7:30 p.m.[300]
7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.: Facebook, Inc. removes President Trump's posts from Facebook and Instagram for "contribut[ing] to, rather than diminish[ing], the risk of ongoing violence."[159]
7:02 p.m.: Twitter removes Trump's tweets and suspends his account for twelve hours for "repeated and severe violations of [its] Civic Integrity policy".[159]
7:04 p.m.: Keith Kellogg emails Marc Short, saying: "finish the Electoral College issue TONIGHT." Short replies 10 minutes later: "That's our plan".[301]
7:13 p.m.: Members of Congress return to the Capitol.[302]
7:21 p.m.: Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale texts Katrina Pierson, saying the riot was the result of a "sitting president asking for civil war ... I feel guilty for helping him win ... a woman is dead ... If I was trump [sic] and knew my rhetoric killed someone". Pierson replied: "It wasn’t the rhetoric". Parscale insisted: "Yes it was."[303]
7:59 p.m.: Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff to Melania Trump and former White House press secretary, tweets her resignation,[304] becoming the first official to resign post-attack.[305]
Congress reconvenes (8:00 p.m.)
8:00 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police declare the Capitol building to be secure.[174]
8:06 p.m.: The Senate reconvenes, with Vice President Pence presiding, to continue debating the objection to the Arizona electoral count.[159]
8:31 p.m.: The Federal Protective Service issues a memo warning that an armed militia group is reportedly traveling from West Virginia to D.C.[139]
8:36 p.m.: Facebook blocks Trump's page for 24 hours.[159]
8:39 p.m.: Giuliani calls Trump and they speak for 9 minutes.[306]
9:00 p.m.: Speaker Pelosi reopens the House debate.[159]
10:00 p.m.: Officer Brian Sicknick collapses while still on duty at Capitol building.[307]
10:15 p.m.: The Senate votes 93–6 against the objection raised by a handful of Republican senators against the counting of Arizona's electoral votes.[308][309]
11:30 p.m.: The House votes 303–121 to reject the Republican objection to the counting of Arizona's electoral votes.[309]
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I am amused at how there can be so many different timestamps between sources

read the timelines and you will find your inaccuracies.

The timeline clearly shows it was hours between the time they started entering the capital and when trump asked them to go home.

i don't watch Fox/CNN/MSNBC news. I prefer not to be brainwashed.

re-read the timeline.

Trump tweeted pretty quickly after. Biden didn't say anything for several hours.

Also, I'm not excusing him.

I've already said I would not vote for Trump. Granted, I feel like our only viable option may be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Define 'pretty quickly' -- and let me know about all the Trump inner circle who testified under oath multiple requests for him to tell the rioters to stop and stand down and how he did no such thing for far too long.

That's a pile of BS. Like I said, I watched it live.. Every station except FOX was showing live. So if anyone among us was brainwashed, it was YOU.

None of that matters. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Reality has no place in Trumplandia.

If we had to choose between Trump, Biden, or Kennedy... I'm picking Kennedy.



Biden has not done what he said what he said he would do. He has done some good things. But, he has only done a few of the things he said he would.


He said he would stop building the wall... Now, he wants to start building the wall

He said he would end Trump's asylum laws. Instead, Biden threw gasoline on it and made anyone who crossed the border in Mexico ineligible for asylum.

LMAO - Student loans. Yeah, he knew that was never going to happen.

Make public colleges and universities free for people who make less than 125k - He's not even trying on this one

Taxes- He guaranteed no one making more than 400k would pay taxes. Instead, he taxes the crap out of corporations and SMB's. Which, was passed onto consumers.

Banning Fracking on public land... yeah. nope, he allowed more - Willow Project.

return to the Iran nuclear deal... nope

He said he would bring back a public option for Obama care... crickets on that.

He was going to eliminate the death penalty - nope on that.


The worst part is he doesn't even know his own name or who is actually running for POTUS.

Kennedy has zero chance to win. Just because you think Alfred is too old to take care of the bat cave is no excuse to put the Joker in charge.

This is the BBC timeline. Posting it because neither side can argue a left wing or a right wing bias
There are embedded tweets that I don't know how to transfer over you you will need to click the link if you e=want to see those


Capitol riots timeline: What happened on 6 January 2021?
2nd August 2023, 01:54 EDT

2:02
Watch: Officer Harry Dunn is still traumatised by the attack on the Capitol
Former US President Donald Trump has been charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
He is accused of four counts including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.
The indictment caps an inquiry into events which led up to the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol - when supporters of Mr Trump stormed Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.
Mr Trump, who is again running for president, denies wrongdoing.
Here are the key moments from 6 January 2021.
Four takeaways from Mr Trump's indictment
What happened to these Capitol rioters?

08:17
President Donald Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud ahead of his rally in Washington DC.
C-SPAN An image of President Trump's tweet about Mike PenceC-SPAN

10:58
Members of the Proud Boy movement, a right-wing militia, are seen heading towards the Capitol. Speaking to Newsnight's US correspondent David Grossman, one member of the group says: "We're taking our country back."
One of the group has a radio. "It was clear he was communicating - getting messages, sending messages to somebody," our correspondent said.

12:12
What the Proud Boys were doing before Trump's speech that day
12:00
President Trump begins his speech to supporters in Washington. Some 15 minutes into it, he starts urging them to converge on the Capitol.
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard," he said.

1:25
"We will never give up, we will never concede", Trump tells supporters

12:53
As the president speaks, a crowd outside the Capitol is swelling. They begin marching towards the police barrier and get past officers. The police, outnumbered, try to contain them.
Trump supporters wield flags and weapons. One man stands on a makeshift gallows, complete with a noose. The crowd chants: "Fight for Trump."
Getty Images Trump supporters near the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DCGetty Images
Some have argued in court that they went to the riot because Donald Trump told them to
Minutes later, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi commences the certification process.

13:10
Mr Trump ends his speech with the words: "We fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."
Shortly afterwards a Capitol police officer calls for backup.
"They're throwing metal poles at us," he says. "Multiple law-enforcement injuries," he adds in a panicked voice.
Capitol police send an evacuation warning.

13:45
Protesters surge past Capitol police protecting the west steps, the side facing the White House.
Minutes later, an officer declares there is a riot at the Capitol. "We're going to give riot warnings," he says. "We're going to try to get compliance but this is now effectively a riot."

2:42
Contains upsetting scenes.
Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot
Meanwhile Vice President Mike Pence is continuing to preside over the session.

14:13
Secret Service quickly and suddenly evacuate Mr Pence from the Senate floor.
The protesters break through the windows. They push inside, hopping through the broken glass. They then kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.
An immediate recess of the Senate is called.
A minute later, Officer Eugene Goodman runs to respond to the initial breach. He warns Senator Mitt Romney that the mob is approaching. Mr Romney turns and runs through a capitol hallway to safety.
The mob, a floor below them, has already begun to search for the Senate chamber.
Officer Goodman makes his way down to the first floor where he encounters the mob.
Igor Bobic Officer Eugene Goodman confronts a rioterIgor Bobic
The officer was seen confronting a rioter during the attack
He lures the armed rioters away from the upper chamber. Many of these individuals have been calling for Mr Pence to be hanged.
By that point, the rioters are "within 100ft" (30m) of Mr Pence and a foot away from one of the doors to the chamber. Many senators are still inside.
A map showing Mike Pence, rioters and Eugene Goodman's location
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At the same time, Ms Pelosi is rushed from the house floor. She is evacuated entirely from the Capitol complex to a secure off-site location.
Her staff barricade themselves into a conference room, hiding under a table.
Staff members of the House leader speak softly, frantically, to each other. Just outside, rioters are spreading out across the building, searching for Ms Pelosi herself.
The rioters chant: "Where are you Nancy?" In an audio clip, we hear one staff member whisper: "They're pounding on doors trying to find her."
One man breaks open the outer door to the office where the staff are hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries as well, but eventually moves on.

14:24
President Trump tweets about Mr Pence.
C-SPAN Presentation by the Democrats shows Donald Trump's tweet and footage of the attackC-SPAN
At the same time, Mr Pence is evacuated to a secure location.
Rioters start to spread through the buildings. Others break in from outside through various doors around the building.
They open the east side door of the rotunda to let more people in, flooding through the doors and overwhelming the officers.

3:15
See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers
The House floor debate is suspended to update members. House members are told to reach for tear gas masks and be prepared to use them.
The House is called back into session in the hope of continuing the count.
Did Trump's words at rally incite the riot?
The 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol
'They tried to break in - then I heard a shot'
But minutes later the House is abruptly recessed. Members are told to get down under their chairs if necessary.
"Folks have entered the rotunda and are coming this way," lawmakers are told.
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell sends a text to his wife: "I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me".
The mob outside the chamber grows larger and they get within feet of the house door.

14:26
President Trump called Senator Mike Lee, according to the Utah Republican who has provided the trial lawyers with a copy of a log from his mobile phone.
According to his office, he received a call from the White House switchboard number - and the call lasted four minutes. Mr Lee has said that apparently the call was meant for Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, and that he handed his phone to his colleague.
Mr Tuberville told reporters that he informed Mr Trump that Mr Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. "I said: Mr President, they've taken the vice-president out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go."
House impeachment managers say it is further evidence that the president knew how much danger his vice-president was in.

14:41
Ashli Babbit is seen turning the corner towards the House lobby doors as members are leaving.
House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern is spotted by the mob as he leaves the House floor.
In a hallway outside the House chamber, a group attempts to force its way through a set of locked doors. The glass window panes on the doors are shattered. A rioter uses a baton to smash through as the crowd around him chants "break it down, break it down".
Footage shows the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a gun and pointing it toward the mob. We hear a shot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.
People still inside the gallery of the chamber are trapped. They tell each other to take off their congressional pins.
In the meantime, a number of rioters reach the inside of the Senate gallery.
"Is this the Senate?" one demands to know. "Where are they?" another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.
Video footage shows some rioters rifling through papers and materials left behind by lawmakers. "There's got to be something we can use against these scumbags," one says.

15:13
Trump tweets asking for people to "remain peaceful".
C-SPAN Presentation by the Democrats shows Donald Trump's tweet and footage of the attackC-SPAN
Meanwhile the mob are still at the Capitol.
Footage shows a sprawling mob, a sea of people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag waves in the foreground.

16:17
Trump releases a video in which he tells the mob to go home.
CSPAN A grab showing Trump's video and his remarksCSPAN

18:00
Fifteen minutes after police confirm Ashli Babbitt has died, Trump tweets again.
He refers to those at the Capitol as "great patriots".
CSPAN Trump's tweets referring to mob as 'patriots'


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56004916

What we have been responding to is someone's feeble attempt to rewrite history.

Which is why I figured a completely nonpartisan BBC timeline would be the best documentation

Trump has already been found guilty of insurrection! We don’t need to rehash that fact, we just need to disqualify him.

One would hope so but according to some Europe is nothing more than a bunch of socialists so we'll see how that goes.

they actually have inaccurate info and they missed several things.

I believe, wiki is the most accurate

I wonder how this will play out since he was found not guilty of insurrection 2x.

https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-...acquits-trump-in-impeachment-trial-again


Senate Acquits Trump In Impeachment Trial — Again

The U.S. Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection.

Senate impeachment is a political forum, not a legal forum. And it was tainted as hell by GOPers radicals.

Exactly. And if those two senate judgements were to count, then the two judgements by the house also count. That would make it a 2-2 tie.

You accurately nailed it when you said it was a political judgement and not a legal judgement. But then anything to rewrite history and muddy the waters.

You're arguing a court ruling with a lawyer. Where did you get your law degree?


He went through the ruling with his lawyer hat on. If I were in his shoes, I wouldn't put all that effort into lending his expertise just to go through the manure with the likes of you after you clearly didn't/couldn't read a thing.

I do not believe this is accurate. Guilty is a finding normally associated with a court of law.

Just as we had the semantics of liable in the E. Jean Carroll for civil litigation.

The key word is "engaged" As in "engaged in insurrection". That is the standard set in the 14th amendment.

Isn't The Colorado Supreme Court a court of law? And wouldn't that mean you were found guilty of "engaging in insurrection or a rebellion"? Because that's the actual wording. It's not restricted to only insurrection.

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383

As it plainly states, all you have to do is "assist" in an insurrection or rebellion" to have violated this clause of the Constitution. The word engaged is only one of the things that are conditions.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co...y-ballot-state-gop-appeals-supreme-court

Well, that didnt last long.