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🗓️ 5 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, she starts now. |
0:09.0 | Hey, good morning. For most Americans, January 6th was an unremarkable day. That changed four years ago when the peaceful transfer of power was thwarted for the first time in American history. |
0:20.2 | In the weeks after the 2020 |
0:21.4 | election, Donald Trump and many of his allies, including those in Congress, spread unfounded |
0:27.0 | allegations about the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidential victory. They filed more than 60 |
0:32.7 | lawsuits in multiple states and in various jurisdictions from local county courts all the way up to the Supreme Court. |
0:39.3 | But as NBC reported, of those dozens of lawsuits, quote, |
0:42.9 | Trump obtained a favorable ruling in only one case. |
0:46.1 | The remainder were eventually either dismissed, settled, or voluntarily withdrawn. |
0:50.8 | But the lies about the election persisted. |
0:53.6 | And Trump and his allies zeroed in on the |
0:56.3 | Electoral College certification in Congress as their last best chance to keep Trump in power. |
1:02.9 | It culminated in the events of January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters, you'll remember |
1:08.8 | this, forced their way into the Capitol in an attempt |
1:11.6 | to prevent Congress from doing its duty of certifying the victory of Joe Biden. There were violent |
1:18.8 | confrontations between law enforcement and the people who broke in, some of whom used flagpoles, |
1:23.3 | hockey sticks, and pepper spray against Capitol Hill officers. Some chanted hang Mike Pence, |
1:29.6 | a reference to the vice president who had refused to cave to Trump's unconstitutional demands |
1:34.4 | to block the certification of the election. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, |
1:39.0 | it appeared that the shocking events of that day had shaken many Americans to their core, including many |
1:46.0 | Republicans who quickly denounced the rioters and laid the blame on Trump. When Congress reconvened |
1:51.7 | to finish counting the electoral college votes that night, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell |
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