“Our government has not just normalized Jan. 6, it has radicalized the events into a loyalty test for top government officials,” she said. Trump himself continues to lie on a near-daily basis that he won the 2020 election, regardless of the venue. “The election was rigged in 2020,” he said at a Dec. 14 White House Christmas party. Harry Dunn, another former Capitol Police officer, said Trump supporters are trying to whitewash what happened. Fanone, though, said the fact that Trump is back in the White House suggests that the battle for accountability has already been lost: “As my kids would say, ‘We’re cooked.’”

Source: Huffington Post January 06, 2026 15:53 UTC