January 6th insurrection

Many of the rioters came from President Donald Trump’s “Save America Rally” that began hours earlier at a park near the White House. Trump spoke to them for more than an hour, insisting the presidential election had been stolen. As Congress started to count Electoral College votes, thousands of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, sending lawmakers scrambling for safety and prompting evacuations.
Three years later
*Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue. McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.” 
::“We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added. 
::Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.“
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