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David,
it's been five years to the day since the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6th.
On that day, as I'm sure almost all of our listeners remember,
A mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session of Congress to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
These Trump supporters,
who were convinced by Trump and his henchmen's baseless claims that the election was stolen and that Trump won,
went to the Capitol with the intent of preventing the election results from being certified.
The FBI deemed this an act of domestic terrorism,
and what took place that day led to Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives for incitement of insurrection,
though he was then acquitted by the Senate.
And when we saw that this episode was going to come out on January 6th,
we proposed making the topic treason
because that's something that we haven't really covered in the podcast before.
But funnily enough, Ellie,
you and I both sort of missed the entire unfolding of the events of January 6th,