On Dec. 19, 2020, Donald Trump, still refusing to accept he had lost the election, invited his supporters to the nation’s capital.
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” he wrote in a now-infamous tweet. “Be there, will be wild!”
Exactly two years later, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol urged the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against the former president for what was unarguably an attempted coup.
