Three years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the future of the government’s massive investigation into the riot, as well as the fate of many rioters themselves, may hinge on this year’s presidential election.
In response to the violent assault on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, federal agents and prosecutors launched one of the largest investigations in American history. FBI Director Christopher Wray, a Republican appointed by Trump, called the attack an act of “domestic terrorism.”
The FBI has now arrested upward of 1,200 people. Prosecutors have secured around 900 guilty pleas or convictions at trial – in cases ranging from breaching the Capitol building to assaulting police, obstructing Congress, bringing a gun onto Capitol grounds and seditious conspiracy.
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