Here’s what a sprawling investigation has found about the Capitol riot arrests Author: Devlin Barrett, Abigail Hauslohner, Spencer S. Hsu, Ashlyn Still, The Washington Post Updated: 2 hours ago Published 2 hours ago
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Print article Four months and hundreds of arrests after the chaos at the Capitol, the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack by a pro-Trump mob has come into focus. More than 2,000 criminal charges have been filed against 411 suspects, including hundreds of felonies such as assaulting officers and trespassing with a weapon. Authorities have tied more than 50 suspects to political or far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
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A GOP congressman said calling the Capitol riots an insurrection is a bald-faced lie.
Rep. Andrew Clyde downplayed the day s violence and compared the rioters to tourists.
Clyde also said the Russia investigations are the only insurrection I have witnessed in my lifetime.
GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde said calling the January 6 insurrection an insurrection is a bald-faced lie and likened the rioters to tourists during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the riots.
Members of the committee heard testimony about the riots from former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, and Chief Robert J. Contee of the Metropolitan Police Department.