2020 Day 1082: Former national security adviser John Bolton said he is "prepared to testify" in Trump's impeachment trial; Trump called for a quick end to the impeachment process; leaked emails from the Pentagon show that Trump personally directed the hold military aide to Ukraine; the Trump administration blocked Iran's top diplomat from entering the U.S. to address the United Nations Security Council about the assassination of Iran's top military official in Baghdad; and Trump spent at least 86 days at a golf club in 2019. Jan 6, 2020
2021 Day 1448: Pence rejected Trump's demand to block certification of Biden's win; Mitch McConnell rebuked his Republican colleagues' efforts to block the certification of the Electoral College; Trump encouraged thousands of supporters during a rally at the Ellipse to protest the count of electoral votes at the Capitol; the U.S. Capitol went into lockdown as a mob of Trump supporters surrounded and then stormed the building; Trump blamed his opponents for the violence and praised the mob that stormed the Capitol as "very special," saying “we can’t play into the hands of these people"; and Democrats won control of the Senate with victories in Georgia’s two runoff elections. Jan 6, 2021
2022 Day 352: Biden condemned Trump and his allies of holding "a dagger at the throat of America," denouncing "the former president" for promoting a “web of lies” and going to extraordinary lengths to cling to power because he "can't accept he lost" a free and fair election; Republicans accused Democrats of "exploiting" the deadly Jan. 6 attack for political purposes; federal judges in D.C. have imposed lighter sentences than prosecutors have sought in 49 out of 74 sentencings held for Capitol riot defendants so far; the number of children in U.S. hospitals with Covid-19 more than doubled to over 4,000 in less than two weeks; and a group of Biden’s former health advisers called on the administration to develop a new national Covid-19 strategy centered on the “new normal” of living with the coronavirus indefinitely. Jan 6, 2022
2025 Day 1448: A joint session of Congress certified Trump's 2024 victory without incident four years after he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss by encouraging his followers to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Congress from certifying Biden as president; Biden urged Americans not to forget or rewrite the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, accusing Trump and his supporters of an "unrelenting effort" to "rewrite — even erase — the history of that day”; a New York judge upheld Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records but indicated he would impose no jail time, favoring an unconditional discharge with no punishment during sentencing on Jan. 10; and 30% of Republicans strongly disapprove of the Jan. 6 attack – down from 51% in January 2021. Jan 6, 2025
2026 Day 1813: Trump is “discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland, including that “utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option”; Democrats plan to force a Senate vote to reassert Congress’s war powers after Trump renewed claims that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security; Trump said Venezuela will turn over between 30 million and 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S.; on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Trump warned House Republicans that Democrats would “find a reason to impeach me” if they lose the 2026 midterm elections; and the White House published an official webpage on the events of Jan. 6, that describes the Capitol attack as a “peaceful protest,” and that Democrats and the Capitol Police – not Trump supporters – were responsible for the violence. Jan 6, 2026