Since the riot on Capitol Hill four years ago, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have set out to sanitize the events of that day, changing it from a day of violence into, in Mr. Trump’s words, a day of love. As he prepares to take office for his second term, Mr. Trump said he plans to issue pardons to some of those responsible, throwing hundreds of criminal cases into doubt. Alan Feuer, a reporter covering extremism and political violence for The New York Times, talks to one of those rioters and explains how the pardons could help rewrite the story of what happened on Jan. 6.
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Get your podcasts from the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily breach of the Capitol since the riot on Capitol Hill four years ago.
They were peaceful.
They were orderly and meek.
These were not insurrectionists.
They were sightseers.
President elect Donald Trump and his allies have set out to sanitize the events of that day.
They're not destroying the Capitol.
They obviously revere the Capitol, changing it.
From a day of violence into, in.
Trump's words, that was a day of love.
A day of love.
And it was love and peace.