January 6th riot

Type: Event

As of November 2026, January 6th riot has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Megyn Kelly (Jan 2026). Mentioned as the subject of the House Select Committee subpoena that Steve Bannon defied, used as precedent for contempt prosecutions.

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of then president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bi