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Monday, June 22, 2026

A year after Jan. 6, how Trump keeps pushing the 'big lie': ANALYSIS - ABC News

Despite everything -- despite the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and everything revealed since -- Donald Trump has never stopped pushing the so-called "big lie" of a stolen presidential election.

A look at the days, events and conversations leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, from the eyes of anti-government groups, extremism experts and several ABC News correspondents who were at the Capitol that day.

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"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," he said then, stoking anger in the fired-up crowd on the Ellipse, telling them he would march with them to the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's electoral vote win.

To mark the one-year anniversary, he announced, he would hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago. "Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd, it was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on January 6th," he said in a release headlined, "Statement by Donald, J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America," suggesting he's still in office.

(Late Tuesday, in a similar release, he announced he was canceling that news conference, teasing he would "discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona—It will be a big crowd!")

As of Dec. 30, more than 700 accused rioters had been charged, and at least 165 have pleaded guilty.

Of the congressional effort to hold him and others accountable, Trump has said: “Why isn’t...



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