Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
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| 2025 | The Committee's members were nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in defending freedom and democracy. |
| April 9 2025 | Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to investigate Chris Krebs and revoke his security clearance. |
| April 3 2025 | The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Mike Pence as the recipient of the JFK Profile in Courage Award for ensuring the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January 6, 2021. |
| March 13 2025 | Potential future events related to pardons or commutations for participants in the January 6 Capitol attack remain speculative as of the current date. |
| February 2025 | Ed Martin, the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, permanently demoted at least eight senior federal prosecutors to entry-level jobs. These prosecutors had worked on Capitol riot cases in the Justice Department's divisions of Federal Major Crimes and Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights. |
| February 23 2025 | Trump announced Dan Bongino as the next deputy FBI director. |
| February 21 2025 | Kash Patel was appointed as the new FBI director. |
| 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia initiated an internal review of January 6 prosecutions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
| February 2025 | The Washington Post reported that candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement positions were being screened with questions about January 6 being 'an inside job' and the 2020 election being 'stolen'. |
| January 22 2025 | House Majority Leader Mike Johnson announced the formation of a panel to investigate the January 6 committee. |
| January 20 2025 | U.S. President Joe Biden granted pardons covering all members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot, their staff, and the officers who testified. |
| January 20 2025 | Trump was inaugurated and subsequently began discussing the possibility of a third term, which is constitutionally forbidden. |
| January 20 2025 | Following the mass pardons, President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to remove previously-published press releases about the arrests and convictions of those pardoned, and video evidence of the attack began to be purged from government databases. |
| January 20 2025 | Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term with JD Vance as his vice president. |
| January 20 2025 | Upon taking office, Trump granted clemency to all January 6 rioters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who violently assaulted police. |
| January 14 2025 | The part of the special counsel report about election obstruction was made public. |
| January 10 2025 | Jack Smith resigned from his position three days after submitting his report. |
| January 9 2025 | At Jimmy Carter's funeral, Trump and Pence briefly greeted each other for the first time in years. |
| January 7 2025 | The special counsel's 137-page final report was publicly released, noting use of the House Select Committee's December 2022 report in the investigation. |
| January 7 2025 | Special Counsel Smith submitted his final 137-page report to the Justice Department about the January 6 events. |
| January 6 2025 | Representative Joseph Morelle released a report containing an email from Hutchinson's lawyer denying any 'improper communications' with Liz Cheney. |
| January 2 2025 | Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Joe Biden for their work during difficult times |
| 2024 | Lake became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate election in Arizona. |
| 2024 | Posts falsely claiming Trump 'stole' the election peaked at 94,000 posts per hour, with many gaining over a million views each. |
| 2024 | Election denial conspiracy theories emerged following the election, with Harris supporters claiming millions of ballots were 'left uncounted' and alleging election irregularities. |
| 2024 | The phrase 'Trump cheated' received 92,100 mentions on social media platform X from midnight until the Wednesday morning after the election. |
| 2024 | Some Democrats began alleging the presidential election was stolen by Republicans. |
| 2024 | The Republican National Committee, under Lara Trump's leadership, sought alliances with election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and alt-right advocates previously kept at a distance. |
| 2024 | Trump did not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election if he were to lose. |
| 2024 | U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States, finding obstruction charges in January 6 cases were overbroad and did not apply to evidence tampering. |
| December 2024 | The House Administration oversight subcommittee, led by Representative Barry Loudermilk, issued a report alleging that Liz Cheney should be criminally investigated for witness tampering regarding Cassidy Hutchinson. |
| December 17 2024 | The Loudermilk-led subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee'. |
| December 17 2024 | The same subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee' |
| December 12 2024 | Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a final report investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, concluding that there was no evidence of FBI undercover employees in the protest crowds or at the Capitol on January 6. |
| December 8 2024 | Trump claimed in an NBC News interview that every committee member should be jailed and falsely alleged evidence deletion. |
| November 2024 | Donald Trump won the presidential election. |
| November 2024 | Following Trump's reelection to the presidency, the special counsel investigation charges were dismissed. |
| November 25 2024 | Special counsel Jack Smith filed to drop the charges against Trump after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and Judge Chutkan approved the request and dismissed the case. |
| November 3 2024 | Trump told a crowd that 'I shouldn't have left [office]'. |
| October 2024 | Steve Bannon was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| October 2024 | Some individuals who were fake electors in 2020 were chosen as potential legitimate electors for Trump in seven key states for the 2024 election. |
| September 2024 | The Department of Homeland Security designated the January 6, 2025 electoral vote certification as a National Special Security Event at Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser's request. |
| July 2024 | Peter Navarro was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| July 2024 | Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned its previous ruling, declaring ballot drop boxes legal for the 2024 United States elections. |
| July 2024 | Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, leading to Trump's subsequent election victory. |
| July 2 2024 | Department of Justice announces it will continue to prosecute the election subversion case, citing its policy of not limiting prosecutions to only sitting presidents. |
| July 1 2024 | The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States on presidential immunity, defining different levels of legal protection for presidential acts. |
| June 2024 | The Washington Post reported on potential preparations by county-level Republicans in swing states to challenge and delay voting result certifications. |
| June 2024 | Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts suggested he would only accept 2024 election results if there was no 'massive fraud'. |
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