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Adam Gabbatt

A ‘day of love’ with more than 100 casualties

Pardoned January 6ers March To US Capitol, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 06 Jan 2026
Pardoned January 6 participants march to the US Capitol on the 2026 anniversary. Photograph: Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

According to Donald Trump, it was a day of love. For those who watched the violent insurrection on January 6, and for the more than 140 law enforcement officers injured that day, it didn’t seem like there was much love on show.

Live video footage showed scores of Trump supporters smashing windows, beating police officers and scrambling over each other as they broke into the Capitol building, in an attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election. “The most shameful day in American history,” Guardian writer Robert Reich called it.

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