In a far-reaching investigation and analysis, “The Cases of January 6,” Associated Press reporter spent more than three years tracking the nearly 1,500 Capitol riot cases brought by the Justice Department. AP reporters have reviewed hours of video footage and thousands of pages of court documents. They have sat through dozens of court hearings and trials for the rioters who descended on the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. “These videos represent a mere fraction of the evidence that prosecutors have presented to juries and judges deciding these cases,” the AP reports. “Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.”
The issue at hand is that not everyone wants to believe that January 6 occurred, the AP writes. “As he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.” The AP put together this entire investigation to show what actually exists. Basically, while the cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — Trump is hawking a much different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners – innocent people that he could pardon if he wins the presidency in November.
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