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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/trump-january-6-remarks-00712597
President Donald Trump continued to deny responsibility for the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on the fifth anniversary of the riot, launching a White House webpage trying to reframe history and giving a speech to House Republicans blaming his political opponents and the media for the attack.
Trump’s actions Tuesday — which came during a broader address during House Republicans’ daylong retreat in Washington — are part of a yearslong pattern of the president downplaying his supporters’ attempt to stop the certification of his 2020 election loss.
Trump on Tuesday accused then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being at fault for much of the fallout and said that the media hadn’t accurately reported statements he made before Congress voted to ultimately certify his 2020 election loss.
“Do you know that the news never reported the words walk or march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol?” the president said. “Do you know that they never reported it? It’s a scandal.”
Also on Tuesday, the White House launched a website that accused Democrats of going after “innocent Americans,” silencing opponents and distracting “from their own role in undermining Democracy.” Pelosi’s face is emblazoned at the top of the site, along with members of the House Jan. 6 committee, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Trump’s opponents, the website claimed, had “masterfully reversed reality after January 6.”
“In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power,” the White House wrote.
President Donald Trump continued to deny responsibility for the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on the fifth anniversary of the riot, launching a White House webpage trying to reframe history and giving a speech to House Republicans blaming his political opponents and the media for the attack.
Trump’s actions Tuesday — which came during a broader address during House Republicans’ daylong retreat in Washington — are part of a yearslong pattern of the president downplaying his supporters’ attempt to stop the certification of his 2020 election loss.
Trump on Tuesday accused then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being at fault for much of the fallout and said that the media hadn’t accurately reported statements he made before Congress voted to ultimately certify his 2020 election loss.
“Do you know that the news never reported the words walk or march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol?” the president said. “Do you know that they never reported it? It’s a scandal.”
Also on Tuesday, the White House launched a website that accused Democrats of going after “innocent Americans,” silencing opponents and distracting “from their own role in undermining Democracy.” Pelosi’s face is emblazoned at the top of the site, along with members of the House Jan. 6 committee, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney.
Trump’s opponents, the website claimed, had “masterfully reversed reality after January 6.”
“In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters, all while Pelosi’s own security lapses invited the chaos they later exploited to seize and consolidate power,” the White House wrote.
