Harris is speaking at the same spot where Trump fanned anger on Jan. 6, 2021. Here’s what happened

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris will present her campaign’s “closing argument” Tuesday from nan aforesaid spot successful Washington wherever Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked nan U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.

She chose nan spot to tie a opposition betwixt her imagination for nan state and Trump’s continued lies astir nan 2020 election, and nan risks she says his return to nan White House would airs for nan nation.

In 2021, thousands of his supporters stood connected nan grassy Ellipse conscionable disconnected Constitution Avenue, not acold from nan Washington Monument, arsenic an angry Trump told his supporters nan predetermination had been stolen from him.

“We will not return it anymore and that’s what this is each about,” Trump told nan crowd. “And to usage a favourite word that each of you group really came up with: We will extremity nan steal. Today I will laic retired conscionable immoderate of nan grounds proving that we won this predetermination and we won it by a landslide. This was not a adjacent election.”

“ And we fight. We conflict for illustration hell. And if you don’t conflict for illustration hell, you’re not going to person a state anymore.”

Some specifications connected what led to Trump’s Jan. 6 quality connected nan Ellipse and what transpired.

The backdrop: A grounded effort to overturn nan predetermination

Trump’s reside came after weeks of grounded ineligible challenges successful which Trump claimed wide elector fraud. His attorneys put guardant unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, including nan thought that voting machines were created successful Venezuela astatine nan guidance of Hugo Chavez. The challenges were roundly dismissed, including by judges who had been appointed by Trump himself aliases different Republicans.

Members of Trump’s ain Cabinet said there’d been nary wide fraud but nan ideas were nevertheless embraced by supporters and persisted. Trump has since been criminally charged for his efforts to overturn nan election.

Trump summons his supporters to DC connected ballot certification day

Congressional certification of nan statesmanlike ballot results is usually a regular portion of nan electoral process. But Trump had been trying, done nan grounded lawsuits, and individual appeals to election officials, to overturn nan results.

Trump tweeted connected Dec. 19, 2020, “Big protestation successful D.C. connected January 6th. Be there, will beryllium wild!”

In his speech, Trump cataloged his grounded tribunal arguments and told nan crowd he hoped that then-Vice President Mike Pence would garbage to certify nan results of nan predetermination erstwhile he stood earlier nan legislators astatine nan Capitol.

“I dream Mike is going to do nan correct thing. I dream so. I dream so,” Trump said.

“Because if Mike Pence does nan correct thing, we triumph nan predetermination ... He has nan absolute correct to do it. We’re expected to protect our country, support our country, support our Constitution, and protect our Constitution.”

Trump went connected to blame nan “fake news media” and “radical-left Democrats” for stealing nan election.

“All of america present coming do not want to spot our predetermination triumph stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing. And stolen by nan clone news media. That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing. We will ne'er springiness up, we will ne'er concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede erstwhile there’s theft involved.”

Trump instructs his supporters: ‘We’re going to nan Capitol’

He told nan crowd that time astatine nan extremity of his reside it was clip to locomotion down Pennsylvania Avenue toward nan Capitol pinch a rambling directive to get involved.

“I emotion Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to nan Capitol, and we’re going to effort and springiness ... nan Democrats are hopeless — they ne'er ballot for anything. Not moreover 1 vote. But we’re going to effort and springiness our Republicans, nan anemic ones because nan beardown ones don’t request immoderate of our help. We’re going to effort and springiness them nan benignant of pridefulness and boldness that they request to return backmost our country.”

“So let’s locomotion down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

The crowd heads to nan Capitol. Trump does not

During legislature hearings connected nan events of Jan. 6, 2021, erstwhile White House adjutant Cassidy Hutchinson recounted really Trump was dismissive erstwhile told that immoderate successful his crowd astatine nan Ellipse were armed.

“I was successful nan vicinity of a speech wherever I overheard nan president opportunity thing to nan effect of, ‘I don’t effing attraction that they person weapons,’” Hutchinson said. “‘They’re not present to wounded me. ... Let my group in. They tin march to nan Capitol from here.’”

She besides described Trump’s anger aft officials told him he couldn’t travel his supporters to nan U.S. Capitol because of information concerns.

Trump went backmost to nan White House instead. And arsenic nan unit astatine nan Capitol unfolded, he sat astatine a array successful a White House eating room watching nan segment unfold connected Fox News, according to legislature testimony.

Pat Cipollone, Trump’s apical White House lawyer, told legislature investigators that aggregate aides — including nan president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump — advised nan president to opportunity thing to extremity nan violence.

Trump made nary effort to telephone for accrued rule enforcement assistance astatine nan Capitol. He did not telephone nan defense secretary, nan homeland information caput aliases nan lawyer general.

As nan president declined to telephone for help, Pence was hiding successful nan Capitol, conscionable feet distant from rioters. A noose was brought to nan Capitol section and immoderate shouted that they were going to bent nan vice president.

At astir 4:15 p.m., astir 3 hours aft they reached nan Capitol, Trump tweeted a video message:

“We had an predetermination that was stolen from us,” he said. “But you person to spell location now,” he said. “We person to person peace. We person to person rule and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.”

Hours later, aft nan time had spiraled retired of control, he tweeted: “These are nan things and events that hap erstwhile a ineffable landslide predetermination triumph is truthful unceremoniously & viciously stripped distant from awesome patriots who person been severely & unfairly treated for truthful long.”

“Go location pinch emotion & successful peace. Remember this time forever!” he added.

Rioters stormed nan Senate enclosure and ransacked Capitol offices for hours. They hit and bloodied rule enforcement, leaving astir 140 injured. Seven group died successful nan aftermath of nan attack, including a rioter changeable by police, and officers who later killed themselves.

In 2024, a caller run pinned connected aged grievances

More than 1,500 group person been charged successful nan Capitol siege successful nan years since.

Trump launched his wide predetermination campaign past March by not merely trying to rewrite nan history of nan Capitol attack, but positioning nan convulsive siege and grounded effort to overturn nan 2020 predetermination arsenic a cornerstone of his bid to return to nan White House.

During a rally successful Ohio, his first arsenic nan presumed Republican Party statesmanlike nominee, Trump stood connected stage, his manus raised successful salute arsenic a recorded chorus of prisoners successful jailhouse for their roles successful nan Jan. 6 onslaught sang nan nationalist anthem.

“They were unbelievable patriots,” Trump said. Having antecedently vowed to pardon nan rioters, he promised to thief them “the first time we get into office.”

Trump, during a Univision municipality hallway conscionable 2 weeks ago, claimed nan time was peaceful.

“That was a time of emotion from nan standpoint of nan millions, it’s for illustration hundreds of thousands, it could person been nan largest group I’ve ever spoken before,” he claimed. “They asked maine to speak, I went, and I spoke. And I utilized nan word peacefully and patriotically.”