January 6th Was Worse Than You Remember | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s SoloPod, we mark the 5th anniversary of the attack on the US Capital building by a mob of Trump supporters–the infamous January 6th insurrection.
At the start of his second term, Trump issued a blanket pardon to the J6 insurrectionists, releasing them from prison. The pardons are a part of MAGA’s ongoing effort to rewrite the history of J6 and downplay the violent actions of those involved. Check out how the White House is “commemorating” January 6th: https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
Today's guest is one of the Capital Police officers who defended the capital building and fought with the rioters. He testified to Congress about what he saw that day, wrote a memoir about his experience, and run for public office in Maryland. His testimony is vital now more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lamb Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:15.8 | This is another edition of Native Lamb Pod. |
| 0:19.1 | I am your host of this solo pod. I'm Angela Rai. And today we are |
| 0:23.9 | talking about something that is near and dear to my heart, a very sobering reality just five years ago |
| 0:29.5 | on January 6th, 2021. The world that I knew it, the Capitol Hill that I worked on, that built my |
| 0:36.7 | career professionally was changed forever. |
| 0:39.2 | On that day, Donald Trump denied election results that were very clear and encouraged protesters |
| 0:47.4 | and angry mob from all over the country that had descended onto the United States Capitol |
| 0:53.1 | to challenge election results, |
| 0:56.0 | to push back, telling them that, you know, that the Democratic Party, what had stolen the election, |
| 1:03.0 | that it had been rigged, that he never saw rigging like that before he blamed tech companies |
| 1:08.0 | and everyone else for an election outcome that was clear and decisive on the |
| 1:12.2 | other side of a COVID-19 pandemic, on the other side of George Floyd's murder, and the people |
| 1:19.3 | who always talked about backing the blue, the people who always talked about, blue lives matter, |
| 1:26.8 | this is what they did instead. |
| 1:29.0 | We're going to run over you. |
| 1:31.4 | Do you think your little pea-shooter guns are going to stop this crowd? |
| 1:35.6 | No, we're going in that building. |
| 1:39.3 | Take off your badges. |
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