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no bull, and the aftermath.

I'm Natalie Orpen, Executive Editor of LawFair, with the indictment and

arrangement of former President Donald Trump this past week. January 6th and its

aftermath are very much on people's minds. For today's LawFair podcast archive episode, we're

bringing you the first episode of our narrative podcast series on precisely that topic. It's called

the aftermath. In this first episode, we looked at the events of January 6th itself and all of

the questions about accountability that followed. We recorded this first episode in 2021, long before

we knew that Trump would eventually be indicted for his role in all of this. It's a reminder of how

things looked at the time. You can listen to the whole first season of the aftermath on our website.

LawFairmedia.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's episode one, day zero, ground zero.

This podcast contains depictions of the events of January 6th 2021. It includes audio

containing violence, explicit language, and racial epithets. Listeners may find this content

unsettling. Discretion is advised.

I voted to, you know, serve you to approve the college, the electoral college count in Arizona.

And then I walked out those center doors, stepped over that broken glass, and then entered into

the rest of the capital building for the first time since the riot had ended.

I remember just going off on my own and walking through the capital until I got to the rotunda.

You know, when I saw there just, I can say no other way than just say I broke my heart.

It's the evening of January 6th 2021. Congress has just reconvened to certify the 2020

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