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Jeffries and Schumer mark five years since January 6 and reject insurrection whitewashing

On the five-year anniversary of the Capitol attack, Jeffries and Schumer publicly commemorated the officers and victims and said Trump had incited a violent insurrection to overturn a free and fair election. The event is central to any dataset on political violence and opposition speech in the period.