What Trump's Win Means for Jan 6 Rioters
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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Summary
Congress is set to certify President-elect Donald Trump's victory today, on the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Since then, almost 1,500 people have been charged with crimes for their actions that day, and more than 500 people have served — or are still serving — time in prison. Not Trump, though. He's managed to avoid any real consequences for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Hanna Rosin, co-host of The Atlantic's narrative podcast 'We Live Here Now,' joins us to reflect on the Jan. 6 anniversary and what Trump's reelection means for the rioters.
Later in the show, a former D.C. metropolitan police officer who was at the Capitol during the insurrection talks about what he saw that day.
And in headlines: The FBI shared more details about the man they say planned the New Orleans terrorist attack, A New York judge upheld Trump's felony conviction and set a sentencing date in his hush money case, and funeral services began for former President Jimmy Carter.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 6th. Happy New Year. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that, |
| 0:08.2 | unlike former Florida Representative Matt Gates, did not spend part of its winter break |
| 0:12.8 | live tweeting its own ethics report release, because this show is good at a lot of things, but |
| 0:17.5 | exceptionally good at not doing unethical things and then telling lots of people |
| 0:21.7 | about them. |
| 0:28.4 | On today's show, President Joe Biden passes out medals and increases Social Security benefits |
| 0:33.1 | for public sector workers. |
| 0:34.8 | And we talked to a former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was at the |
| 0:38.4 | Capitol on January 6th. Let's get into it. A lot happened while we were out for the holidays. Former |
| 0:45.1 | President Jimmy Carter died. 14 people were killed in New Orleans in a terrorist attack on |
| 0:49.4 | New Year's Day. Another five people died in a similar attack at a Christmas market in Germany. |
| 0:54.5 | Elon Musk got in a big fight online with a maga faithful over immigration visas for high-skill workers, |
| 0:59.8 | and it all led to him saying to his detractors, quote, |
| 1:02.6 | Fuck yourself in the face. |
| 1:04.6 | So that's fun. |
| 1:06.6 | A new Congress was sworn in with Republican majorities in both the House and Senate. |
| 1:10.8 | And House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to hold on his job, albeit fairly, after a few |
| 1:15.8 | Republican holdouts decided to vote for him. That brings us to today, when Congress is set |
| 1:20.9 | to certify the 2024 election results and incoming President Donald Trump's victory. |
| 1:26.3 | It happens to fall on the four-year anniversary of January 6th, 2021, |
| 1:30.7 | when a mob of violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol |
| 1:33.2 | to try to overturn Trump's loss in the 2020 election. |
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