January 6 2021 Capitol attack - Fallout and Repercussions in 2022

The year 2021 will be remembered for an unprecedented event in U.S. history: the January 6
assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempt to prevent the
certification of the 2020 election results. This was not an attack on a building, but on
Congress itself. Its members were in session and had to stop voting (what they were doing),
hide under their seats and the building was urgently evacuated in a state of panic. Amid
scenes of total panic.
While the Capitol has on many occasions been the scene of violence in the past, it had never
been attacked on this scale by US citizens emboldened by a president attempting to overturn a
legal and legitimate election.
It is already clear that in the preceding weeks, a small circle of Republican lawmakers from
the ultra-right parliamentary group, Freedom Caucus, that includes former Tea Party
members, worked with the president and the White House through chief of staff Mark
Meadows, and the President’s advisor Peter Navarro helped by strategist Steve Bannon, to try
to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
They pressured local elected officials, lobbied the Department of Justice, and flooded the
courts with appeals that were systematically thrown out. Yet even today, Donald Trump and
his allies continue to promote the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from them,
amplifying false allegations and conspiracy theories, with the help of media allies like Fox
News and the One America News Network.