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* {{Cite web|last=Jacobson|first=Louis|date=January 6, 2021|title=Is this a coup? Here's some history and context to help you decide|url=https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/06/coup-heres-some-history-and-context-help-you-decid/|access-date=January 7, 2021|website=[[PolitiFact]] |quote=A good case can be made that the storming of the Capitol qualifies as a coup. It's especially so because the rioters entered at precisely the moment when the incumbent's loss was to be formally sealed, and they succeeded in stopping the count.}}
* {{Cite news|last1=Barry|first1=Dan|last2=Frenkel|first2=Sheera|date=January 7, 2021|title='Be There. Will Be Wild!': Trump All but Circled the Date|work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html |archive-date=2021-12-28 |url-access=registration |url-status=live |access-date=December 16, 2023}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Duignan |first=Brian |date=2021-08-04 |title=January 6 U.S. Capitol attack |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack |url-status=live |access-date=2021-09-22 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |quote=Because its object was to prevent a legitimate president-elect from assuming office, the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d'état.|language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117232629/https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack |archive-date=2023-01-17}}</ref> two months after his defeat in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]]. They sought to keep him in power by occupying the Capitol and preventing a [[Joint session of the United States Congress|joint session of Congress]] from [[2021 United States Electoral College vote count|counting the Electoral College votes]] to formalize the victory of President-elect [[Joe Biden]]. The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan [[United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|House select committee that investigated the incident]], the attack was the culmination of [[Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack#7PartPlan|a seven-part plan]] by Trump to [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|overturn the election]].<ref>{{#invoke:cite web||last1=Bash |first1=Dana |last2=Tapper |first2=Jake |last3=Herb |first3=Jeremy |title=January 6 Vice Chair Cheney said Trump had a 'seven-part plan' to overturn the election. Here's what she meant |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/jan-6-hearing-cheney-trump-overturn-election-plan/index.html |website=[[CNN]]|access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615071813/https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/jan-6-hearing-cheney-trump-overturn-election-plan/index.html |archive-date=June 15, 2022 |date=June 10, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite web||last1=Vogt |first1=Adrienne |last2=Hammond |first2=Elise |last3=Sangal |first3=Aditi |last4=Macaya |first4=Melissa |last5=Hayes |first5=Mike |date=June 28, 2022 |title=The committee is arguing Trump had a 'seven-part plan' to overturn the election. Here's what that means |url=https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-hearings-june-28/h_c0195fffa9900609e2924b7dbf2225bb |access-date=June 28, 2022 |publisher=[[CNN]] |language=en |archive-date=June 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628164028/https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-hearings-june-28/h_c0195fffa9900609e2924b7dbf2225bb |url-status=live }}</ref> Within 36 hours, five people died: [[Killing of Ashli Babbitt|one was shot]] by [[United States Capitol Police|Capitol Police]], another died of a drug overdose, and three died of [[Manner of death|natural causes]],
Encouraged by Trump,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barry |first1=Dan |last2=Frenkel |first2=Sheera |date=January 7, 2021 |title='Be There. Will Be Wild!': Trump All but Circled the Date |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107035158/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |url-access=registration |access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Snodgrass |first=Erin |title=A timeline of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/a-timeline-of-trumps-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-election-2021-10 |date=October 7, 2021 |work=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=October 8, 2021 |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026110252/https://www.businessinsider.com/a-timeline-of-trumps-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-election-2021-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> on January{{spaces}}5 and{{spaces}}6, thousands of his supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to support [[Stop the Steal|his false claims]] that the 2020 election had been "stolen by emboldened radical-left [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]]",<ref>{{cite news |last1=Naylor |first1=Brian |title=Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial |access-date=July 23, 2021 |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=February 10, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701165425/https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Doig>{{cite web |last=Doig |first=Steve |date=January 8, 2021 |title=It is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the size of the crowd that stormed Capitol Hill |url=https://theconversation.com/it-is-difficult-if-not-impossible-to-estimate-the-size-of-the-crowd-that-stormed-capitol-hill-152889 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110082826/https://theconversation.com/it-is-difficult-if-not-impossible-to-estimate-the-size-of-the-crowd-that-stormed-capitol-hill-152889 |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |access-date=January 10, 2021 |website=The Conversation|quote=I’m perfectly prepared to believe there were several thousand people there, even 10,000 maybe. But when you start pushing that up to 100,000 and so on, that’s not going to be true.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Higgins |first=Andrew |date=January 10, 2021 |title=The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better – Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/world/europe/trump-truth-lies-power.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110225247/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/world/europe/trump-truth-lies-power.html |url-status=live |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |url-access=limited |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Rutenberg">{{cite web |date=February 1, 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131233459/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |url-access=limited |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |quote=Trump's [...] effort to reverse his loss turned into [...] an extralegal campaign to subvert the election, rooted in a lie so convincing to some of his most devoted followers that it made the deadly January 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable [...] With each passing day the lie grew, finally managing to do what the political process and the courts would not: upend the peaceful transfer of power that for 224 years had been the bedrock of American democracy. |title=77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election |last1=Rutenberg |first1=Jim |last2=Becker |first2=Jo |last3=Lipton |first3=Eric |last4=Haberman |first4=Maggie |last5=Martin |first5=Jonathan |last6=Rosenberg |first6=Matthew |last7=Schmidt |first7=Michael S.}}</ref> and to demand that then–Vice President [[Mike Pence]] and [[United States Congress|Congress]] reject Biden's victory.<ref>Multiple sources:
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