What was the Jan 6 Capitol Attack?
A: On January 6, 2021, a mob of 2,000–2,500 supporters of U.S. President
Donald Trump attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
What did they want to do?
A: They wanted to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential
election by
disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes.
The Capitol Complex was locked down and lawmakers and
staff were what?
A: Evacuated as rioters assaulted law enforcement officers, vandalized
property, and occupied the building for several hours.
How many people died either shortly before, during, or
following the event?
A: Five.
One was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug
overdose, and three died of natural what?
A: Natural causes.
Many people were injured, including how many police
officers?
A: 138.
How did four officers who responded to the attack die
within seven months?
A: by suicide.
Called to action by Trump, thousands of his supporters
gathered in Washington, D.C., on January 5 and 6 to support his what?
A: His false claim that the 2020 election had been "stolen by emboldened
radical-left Democrats"
Starting at noon on January 6, at a "Save America"
rally on the Ellipse, Trump repeated false claims of election irregularities
and said what?
A: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country
anymore."
During and after his speech, thousands of attendees
walked to the Capitol and hundreds breached what?
A: Police perimeters as Congress was beginning the electoral vote count.
How many people broke into the building?
A: More than 2,000.
The mob was occupying, vandalizing, and looting it,
assaulting Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempting to do what?
A: To locate lawmakers to capture and harm.
What was erected west of the Capitol?
A: A gallows.
Some rioters chanted "what" after he rejected false
claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the
election results?
A: Hang Mike Pence.
Some vandalized and looted the offices of whom?
A: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress.
With building security breached, Capitol Police
evacuated and locked down what?
A: Both chambers of Congress and several buildings in the Capitol Complex.
Rioters occupied the empty Senate chamber while federal
law enforcement officers defended what?
A: The evacuated House floor.
Where were pipe bombs found?
A: At each of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National
Committee headquarters.
Where were Molotov cocktails
discovered?
A: In a vehicle near the Capitol.
Trump resisted sending the National Guard to do what?
A: To quell the mob.
Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted
that the election was "fraudulent" but told his supporters to do what?
A: "go home in peace".
The Capitol was clear of rioters by when?
A: Mid-evening.
When was the counting of the electoral votes completed?
A: In the early morning hours of January 7.
What did Pence declare?
A: Pence declared President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala
Harris victorious.
Pressured by his administration, the threat of removal,
and many resignations, Trump later did what?
A: Committed to an orderly transition of power in a televised statement.