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The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, January 6 attack on the United States Capitol Complex, January 6th Insurrection, Capitol riots, or "January 6", refers to an event on January 6, 2021, in which thousands of supporters of Donald Trump breached barricades surrounding the US Capitol, and hundreds assaulted the Capitol police, broke into the US Capitol, and rioted in an attempt to disrupt or stop a joint session of the US Congress from certification of the election of Joseph Biden as the next president of the United States of America.

Following Donald Trump's loss to Joseph Biden in the 2020 presidential election, without any evidence and after losses in numerous court cases challenging the election results, Donald Trump, his surrogates, and supportive right-wing media repeatedly lied to or misled the public, by falsely asserting the election was fraudulent and that Trump had won. Trump lied to his supporters that US Vice President Mike Pence had the power to stop the election from being stolen by refusing certification, as presiding member of the joint Congressional session to certify the election on January 6, 20101. Pence issued a statement that he did not have such a power. Trump called thousands of supporters to a January 6, 2021, rally in Washington DC, to "stop the steal". Trump tweeted the January 6 rally would be "wild", and his surrogates commented that violence was anticipated and "all hell is going to break loose".

At the rally, Trump lied to thousands of his supporters that the election would be stolen if they did not "fight", directed the crowd to march on the US Capitol where Pence and the joint session of Congress were meeting to certify the election, and lied to the crowd that Trump would march to the Capitol building with the crowd. Thousands of Trump supporters marched to the Capitol building and rioted. They assaulted and battered Capitol police, breached physical barriers surrounding the Capitol building, climbed the walls, broke down windows and doors, and stormed the building. The mob searched the building for Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other senators and house members, chanting threats of physical harm or death.

Police slowed the rioters from entering the Senate chambers by directing the mob toward the police. Police slowed the assault on the House chamber by shooting and killing a member of the mob as the mob attempted to break into the chamber doors. The vice president, house members, and senate members were barely evacuated from the chambers before the rioters entered. Other house and senate members, and their staff, barricaded themselves in rooms and offices where they hid from the rioters. For hours, President Trump delayed in calling off the mob and delayed in calling in backup forces, during which time rioters destroyed property and assaulted and battered police and without relent, injuring numerous officers.

The event resulted in hundreds of arrests and a second impeachment of Trump, at which one Republican house member summarized the event and its cause as "a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to... stop the counting of presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction... the President (Trump)... summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack... The President (Trump) could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not." Many videotaped and photographed themselves attacking the capitol and police, rioting, and as acting with a stated intent to stop the election certification. In the months following the event, Trump surrogates and right wing media falsely characterized the event as being being perpetrated by Trump opponents not supporters, or as being a peaceful event that was mischaracterized as being an attack, riot, or insurrection, despite the photos and videotapes of the acts and statements of intent.

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Hi MBUSHIstory,

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Hi MBUSHIstory,

I am Petros Apostolopoulos, a Ph.D. candidate in Public History at North Carolina State University. My Ph.D. project examines how historical knowledge is produced on Wikipedia. If you are interested in participating in my research study by offering your own experience of writing about history on Wikipedia, you can click on this link https://ncsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z4wmR1cIp0qBH8. There are minimal risks involved in this research.

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