“The former president's supporters are trying to rewrite history,' Biden said in Statuary Hall, the room off the House chamber that a year ago was swarmed by rioters and suffocated by tear gas. “Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country?'
But few, if any, Republicans are expected to attend those gatherings on Thursday as the bulk of their party remains deeply loyal to Trump. GOP leaders have urged their colleagues to spend the day focused on the security flaws at the Capitol rather than engage in any direct validation of the traumatic effects of the riot.
A smaller number of House Republicans, particularly some of the 10 who joined Democrats to impeach Trump for inciting the riot last year, continued to condemn the former president. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said the mob was “provoked by” Trump in the immediate aftermath of the riot, released a Thursday statement that did not mention Trump by name. McConnell called the Capitol assault a “disgraceful scene” and “antithetical to the rule of law,” though he also blasted Democrats’ attempt to use the anniversary to advance election reforms as an exploitation of the anniversary.
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