{"id":16915,"date":"2026-01-06T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=16915"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:24:39","slug":"its-the-fifth-anniversary-of-trumps-attempted-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/06\/its-the-fifth-anniversary-of-trumps-attempted-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the fifth anniversary of Trump&#8217;s attempted coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years later, it seems there has been no justice for the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>AP looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-riot-anniversary-trump-democrats-1ef8f91dcdf0f209ba7316139df7e9c6\">the aftermath and political state of play<\/a> five years later.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-jan-6-pardons-rioters.html\">the terrorists who attacked the Capitol<\/a>: &#8220;Some pardoned rioters have been rearrested. Others returned to poverty and mental health challenges. And many became consumed by resentment and demands for payback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/01\/06\/we-learned-nothing-from-jan-6\/\">Salon<\/a><\/em>, Russell Payne says &#8220;we learned nothing from January 6th&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-jan-6-legacy_n_695c42eee4b0d6beb5fe3113\">HuffPo<\/a><\/em>, S.V. Date writes, &#8220;He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last&#8221;, as he looks at the possibility that trump &#8220;normalized&#8221; coup attempts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/five-years-jan-6-trump-rewriting-narrative-capitol-siege-rcna240115\">NBC<\/a>: Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/popular.info\/p\/five-years-later-these-10-corporations\">Popular Information<\/a><\/em>: Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren\u2019t funding election deniers.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-honors-patriotic-capitol-rioters-on-january-6-anniversary\/\">Mediaite<\/a><\/em>: Marjorie Taylor Greene Honors \u2018Patriotic\u2019 Capitol Rioters on January 6 Anniversary<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/capitol-riot-anniversary-missing-plaque_n_695c8ff0e4b0c1bd90c52128?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">HuffPo<\/a><\/em>: Jan. 6 Plaque Made To Honor Law Enforcement Still Not On Display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years later, it seems there has been no justice for the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Here&#8217;s a wrap-up of the coverage across the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}